Markets and projects vary but all things being equal, would you grow your buy and hold properties or flips?

I am sure that one in a very similar situation could have found some other creative means to obtain the apartment building, still keep the 401k and have best of both worlds.Roth or traditional, a 401k or IRA is Not money in a hole in the backyard, it is a great tool that can be used to grow it using RE as the vehicle.

You did a great job growing it.

Mold won't grow under something like 42 percent humidity.

If your reserves really grow to the point that its overkill and you don't want to invest in any more properties, then pay your mortgage down some.

To all who are looking to expand their business into economically growing and naturally beautiful Baltics.

There are Lonnie dealers that do both and that are actually growing in size since they took the trouble to become legal and compliant in their lending.

I have considered the rental market and have some experience there, growing up my father always had a few houses he would rent out and to this day still owns 3 or 4 that he uses for fun money.

Corey Duttonexactly- because there is strong tendency to grow the bubble w/ all the foreign investors in South Fla. we have to stay conservative.

I’m not too familiar with finding properties before they hit the market, but I can tell you that when I began looking at investing in bank owned properties in Florida (where there were roughly 1,000 turning over every month or so in the markets I was interested in), my natural instinct as a former analyst on Wall Street was to build a financial model that could quickly get comps and find the value of the properties as investments within seconds.