I have never been pre-approved for a loan before so I met with our favorite bank lender yesterday to get some numbers of what my budget would be through a bank.

Offer to help someone in the group if a situation arises—even if you get nothing but learning in return.Find a safe, liquid, higher-yield place to store savings.

I would be very careful with liquidating any of your stocks, bonds, and others due to the penalties you can incur.

I think if they can support tokenized governance, establish a stable liquidity pool, and reduce the bottleneck of Lofty as the single point of failure, they can really differentiate themselves.

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The reason you can't deduct travel expense before identifying property is you report your every rental activity that you already own on schedule E.

Instead of paying a LS, I can break up payments over 6 months. to help minimize the risk of liquidity, if that makes sense.

What is your favorite thing about investing in the area?

Don't be the first-time investor (like I was) who quickly bought a decent deal, only to find a MUCH better deal 3 weeks later, but be forced to pass on it because my capital was tied-up.I want to share my favorite tool for modeling real estate deals - I found it through the BiggerPockets podcast.

What are the e asAgree with @ Arthur above.