If you had to start over with $100k, no education, and no credentials, no wife, no kids, what would you do to become financially secure in Los Angeles, CA?
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BP Nation,As a newbie, this is my first success story. My wife and I started our real estate odyssey in the winter of 2013. Since then it has been an amazing and wild experience. Hopefully, our story can be an inspira...
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I'm considering selling my house in Utah and heading south of the border. I would like to go to the Puerto Vallarta / Riviera Nayarit region. I speak Spanish fairly well, I studied it up until my senior year of colleg...
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Hey ladies and gents, my name is Treivor Cashion and I'm currently living in the beautiful Dallas, Texas area! A little bit about me, I'm originally from College Station, but I moved here when I started college at the...
Good morning all, new to the forums and like the other millions have dreams for a comfortable retirement in a short 20 years. I've been listening to the pod casts and reading as time allows and the "rule of thumb" li...
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I have a beautiful, nicely upgraded 3 BR 2 BA condo in Palm Springs. It is in a gated community, has a 2 car garage, very private with only a shared garage wall. There are 3 pools, tennis courts and it is a beautiful ...
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Hey Everyone, My wife and I are just starting our investment journey. We currently have one short-term rental in VA and we're on the hunt for our second. Our target area is western North Carolina. Specifically in the ...
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My husband, Joe, and I listened to a podcast this week with Gene Guarino and was very impressed with his Residential Assisted Living model. This makes so much sense. We were just told this week that the reason most ...
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I'm just wondering what types of housing the various investors choose on these forums. I would assume that most of you own your own home or are tenants in some of your rental properties, but who knows?
My question i...
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So, a friend of mine who's a hvac tech or whatever. He does commercial low pressure stuff. I don't know the techy term for it.
Anyways, he gets to do some pretty regular travel and he's in Colorado for 2 weeks worki...