I want to thank the collective wisdom of bigger pockets community that enabled me to grow from 13 doors to 75 doors in 2 years while also holding a full time job in technology (I own and self manage these properties with a 50% partner).

Hi Folks, I'm wondering if anyone else out there has pondered this. In Oakland, if an owner moves into a property, and that property is 3 units or fewer, then after 2 years of the owner living in one of the units, the...

I look forward to learning from & growing with you all. 

You're looking at ordinary income rates and, possibly, self employment taxes.

Back in 2015 because of my 8 loans in the secondary market difficult to grow my portfolio so turned to a local community bank about $500M in assets - sister bank somewhere in the $4B range.

I hope to learn and grow with you all.

I plan on holding super long term as the area is outside of two different growing cities.  

With two kids under four I want to be around while they grow up.I began my journey about 6 months ago and through strict budgeting and ramping up savings my family is now able to live off of half my take home pay.

We add investors – like any other investment firm - to share profits and grow with – just like Charles Schawb, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, or Fisher Investments who also advertise.

As our family grows she will cut down to part time so my thinking is (correct me if I'm wrong) that banks will not lend as much to her as they will to me.