31 October 2020 | 392 replies
I don't trust the stock market, don't knowcryptos, and I don't want to stockpile gold, silver, or rare coins.
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30 January 2021 | 42 replies
I'm not a CPA, financial expert, stock market broker or even highly educated but I can tell you that there was no chance I would be pulling six figures a year profit from my 401k today if I had left it sitting.That is the success story side of the coin.
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2 January 2020 | 134 replies
I bought my first house in Los Angeles that I "house-hacked" before the term was even coined back in 2003 (way before the crash).
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7 October 2022 | 229 replies
Since you gave the rose tinted glasses scenario in case of default let me give the other side of the coin. 22yo E-4 gets married and buys a house out in town, rolls his funding fee into his mortgage and lives there for three years.
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17 March 2021 | 124 replies
I'm out of Phoenix and I have heard both sides of the coin.
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11 November 2014 | 26 replies
Coins, plastic money sign, a pencil, etc.For example, one agent mails their farming pieces in a small brown paper bag with a stamp.
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15 July 2014 | 20 replies
I always like hearing the other side of the coin.
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22 July 2014 | 14 replies
There are two sides to the coin, one is the motivation to go out and just do it; which it seems like you have, the other side is to make sure you at least have a slight grasp on what it is you're trying to do, which you may need to work on a bit.
14 February 2023 | 5 replies
While stocks dropped by 20%, and crypto crashed, our clients' rents rose by 4.5%, while YoY prices were flat.The factors that drove growth between 2013 through 2021 still exist.
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16 May 2019 | 98 replies
Look at other investments methods to help that 11k expand faster - maybe index funds (or crypto - yes it's volatile, but over time... wow...)