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10 July 2022 | 30 replies
Hey everyone,Born and raised in Saskatchewan and have been searching deals in the two major cities.
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30 December 2021 | 7 replies
I definitely do want to fall in this trap.
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29 October 2016 | 9 replies
I was born & raised in Bellevue - so I've seen it go through a ton of transition.
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29 August 2023 | 7 replies
I am in currently in Denver but was born and raised in Appleton.
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10 June 2023 | 20 replies
Currently, I am a US citizen (born and raised in Florida), but I live and work in Shanghai, and I have been here since 2014.
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10 January 2023 | 32 replies
I found out the hard way that aside from one small loan of $50,000, the entire rest of the sum is trapped in the retirement account.$50,000 may seem like a lot, but after you get hundreds of thousands in your 401K that you can't touch until you retire, and you are trying to do larger real estate projects that require much larger sums of money, you will realize that it wasn't the best idea to lock all of your money into these accounts.
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17 May 2018 | 14 replies
Yes it can be difficult; I'm not a wholesaler I'm a Realtor; I was born and raised in Oakland I work with a lot of investors the prices are ridiculous.
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7 November 2020 | 17 replies
@Kent Leach I think you are correct that some (maybe most) securities attorneys are actively counseling their clients to stay away from 506(b) because the potential trap of advertising and triggering enforcement action by the SEC.
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28 August 2023 | 8 replies
. #2 Flips - this market was born for it.
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26 November 2023 | 10 replies
@Evan DiLeonardi pretty sure Cost Seg Kev is born and raised in Jefferson Park or nearby Portage so that is a sign. lol.