Then get the names from his subs for future reference, if you only need an individual trade.

. :) But owning a brokerage takes you from managing yourself and your clients and transactions in your own quite independent business (still operating under the guidelines of your brokerage, obviously) to managing and being responsible for a large number of PEOPLE - plus a lot more liability.So the main point I would make is that IMO it's not a natural progression, the huge shift in business model and activities and responsibilities means examining it as a new business and evaluating the trade-offs just as one would any other new venture.

Your traditional 1 percent rule will never apply with our high taxes so you usually can bank on appreciation over time, but with everything trading so high it is very difficult.

Damn, you are kind of like a jack of all trades then.

Its all trade-offs and what works best with your investment strategy and "life."

For the difference in rent (and guessing a large difference in cost), I'd go the quicker route and save for the major reno when you aren't in the middle of covid and you have better access to materials and trades people.

As an accountant you've got a great marketable skill set to trade on.

I mathed it out, and I think I'm better off riding LA appreciation for most of those ten years and then trading my LA assets for cashflowing properties in the Southeast closer to year ten.You're right about the high LA price points, though.

Before the contract was actually signed he ended up removing somethings saying that he miscalculated his cost and it would be more expensive than the $67,000.00 and we settled on a trade off of me and my father (an electrician) doing the electrical work if he did the rest for the $67,000.00 that I had already obtained the loan for.

Less money, however that's the trade off I'm good with it.