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11 December 2024 | 68 replies
The taxes are killer though, you're going to lose probably like 30% of your paycheck.
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2 December 2024 | 5 replies
So, even if you could get a down payment and loan for a property, you would LOSE money even at high rental rates until you ran out and got foreclosed on and still not be giving anyone a break on rent prices. 4.
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3 December 2024 | 15 replies
make friends.there's no rush. the worst possible thing you could do would be to put your nest egg into something and lose some of it and set yourself back.
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28 November 2024 | 1 reply
My argument is simple—real estate, unlike most assets, doesn’t actually lose value over time.
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5 December 2024 | 554 replies
USD is definitely losing ground in the value dept to bitcoin.
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2 December 2024 | 8 replies
You'll screw up and lose some money, maybe even a lot of money.
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28 November 2024 | 3 replies
Quote from @Meshael Eady: Hello BP Family,Starting today I will be marketing to folks in Brooklyn who might be in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure.
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3 December 2024 | 10 replies
The last thing you want to do is have a rental go bad and then lose your primary residence due to a deficiency judgment because of a bad rental property.
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25 November 2024 | 23 replies
Hopefully you know some local fellow investors, but if not, certainly developing this local network is important and would put an emphasis on that as well.
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4 December 2024 | 25 replies
If you are not on top of so many things it a great chance you can lose.