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4 September 2007 | 9 replies
If anyone wants to buy for appreciation - that's fine, but just realize that this is pure speculation.
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21 August 2014 | 12 replies
We have 3 personal turned rentals and 2 pure rentals with another 2 houses (1 personal/1 rental) budgeted in the next 10 months.
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30 October 2014 | 5 replies
We got started through personal properties turn rentals and buying pure rentals.
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16 May 2015 | 4 replies
We were able to retire early, in large part, due to real estate investments (our own single family homes) along the way; however, we've never purchased a property purely for investment.
10 November 2015 | 0 replies
My needs are nothing fancy, I work in science for my day job and the real estate is purely a side interest (along with stocks) but I am passionate about investing.
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7 March 2016 | 6 replies
That's purely your judgement.Good luck!
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20 September 2017 | 5 replies
You can buy another one any time in the future.As for appreciation that is pure speculation that could be -3% as easy as +3%.
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21 December 2016 | 6 replies
(Pure education, zero sales pitch.)
25 August 2012 | 6 replies
I do not want to do pure rentals, so this is my perfered method to go farward with investing at this time.