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18 July 2024 | 4 replies
BiggerPockets has become a bigger business and therefore needs more revenue to sustain the higher expenses and profit, and it gets revenue from ad space, not from meetups.
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20 July 2024 | 28 replies
Transitioning to a post-scarcity economy may involve shifts towards collaborative consumption, resource sharing, and sustainable practices.In short, while post-scarcity is an intriguing concept, its realization is likely to be gradual and contingent upon a complex interplay of technological, economic, and social factors."
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22 July 2024 | 28 replies
And what we describe will help others not take on investments of a super high risk nature without being able to sustain if the investment is lost.
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22 July 2024 | 71 replies
Some of them will make it to a higher income bracket, probably most will not in any material manner. 15 cent an hour raises don't really make for much investment income.
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18 July 2024 | 7 replies
You've probably heard of big Landlords losing property, but only because they were flagrantly violating Fair Housing, running a slum, or otherwise violating the law in an egregious manner.
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18 July 2024 | 11 replies
I am currently paying $1700 in rent and I despise paying rent, especially being in a financial position where I can afford to build equity in some manner or get a cashflowing asset to offset it.
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22 July 2024 | 120 replies
Immigration is good, but it is not sustainable at that level.
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18 July 2024 | 31 replies
For us in CA we are sustainable because our income is large (400k per HH) and money keep flowing to tech sector.For other guy they are not sustainable as it's based on investment or migration.
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18 July 2024 | 4 replies
My wife and I bought our most recent primary residence in this manner and locked in a 3% rate on our loan in an (at that time) 8% interest rate market!
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16 July 2024 | 4 replies
A lot of my wholesaler buddies are telling me it's common place to have to spend $50K+ on marketing to sustain the wholesale business right now.