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3 April 2020 | 1 reply
https://apple.news/APUFQQwoyQN6GYV1bz217-gIf things like this go nationwide it will get bad fast. Much worse than a run of the mill recession. And while people want to blame it on the virus our economy & society h...
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9 April 2020 | 4 replies
With GDP & unemployment levels likely topping the Great Depression how will this impact your market & investing?
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29 February 2020 | 16 replies
Here is how to look at it for the best returns: And I don't understand why someone from CA would buy in Ohio where the laws, economics and returns are so depressed compared to the option of NV and AZ.
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14 March 2021 | 11 replies
Cap rates are depressing due to the heavy influx of foreign money(their cap rates are even lower), but we believe that there is still opportunity in the right markets.
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10 March 2020 | 9 replies
Decreasing crime indexEssentially, it does not really matter what your strategy is if the market is depressed or in a down cycle.
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3 March 2020 | 11 replies
I think I can scale faster in the depressed areas without losing my shirt and gaining a windfall in cashflow.
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27 February 2020 | 0 replies
I have been waiting and getting my credit score and everything last year in order to get a Duplex to house hack in the Lake county IL area. There was an opportunity to get a turnkey property and the numbers would of w...
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26 March 2020 | 45 replies
Every two years the government comes up with some new disease to give the people a reason to stop thinking about real life and the fact that February is depressing.
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8 March 2020 | 1 reply
We picked properties in a market that was really depressed and didn't have potential for recovery. 8 years ago we were lured to an area by a "friend" and were wowed by the low home prices.
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6 April 2020 | 28 replies
That would be akin to selling your stocks in 2012 after losing your butt for 5 years; which was 5 years shy of the FULL rebound of the stock market to a point about 2x the 2007 highs.Investing in the stock market is not wisely used a short-term investment vehicle and I believe you would be doing yourself a disservice to look up and see the sky falling (due to a very clear cause -- a virus) and dump your depressed stocks so that you could put that money into a (potentially) inflated commodity like investment real estate.