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With the price of oil dropping, who thinks it is a good or bad idea to invest in Houston? I have my opinion living here in Houston but am curious what others think that are not here.
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ok guys and gals. I learned my lesson from the last one. I was missing a lot of data. This time I decided to make my own spreadsheet instead of using someone else's. It is moderately detailed. The grey areas are the a...
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Here's a chart that I saw today from a reliable source. It shows the total debt of households, businesses and the government. There are two things that are quite clear from the chart:
1. Total debt has increased e...
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Apartment Demand Outpaces Supply
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Working full time while attempting to invest. If my goals are to leverage RE for financial freedom, should I still max out retirement accounts?
1. Roth 401k vs 401k?
2. Open a Roth IRA as well?
Trying to figure out...
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About 2 months ago, a 2/1 SFH in Sunnyvale sold for $2M, and made headlines in the Bay Area for a few days. https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/2/17073100/silicon-va...2 months later, a SFH in the same neighborhood, 2x the s...
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I’m in San Diego. My goal with purchasing a property is to reduce my rent to 2k or less/month while starting my real estate portfolio. I plan to hold the property indefinitely and to eventually refinance it for a dow...
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Earlier today, on the way to work, I was listening to the BP Podcast #285 as per my usual routine (another great podcast by the way). But after hearing some of the guest's comments about building multi-family and rent...
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FB were at my local REIA meeting and offered this 3 day course. Im atending it now. After the first day I decided to research some and found out that this coaching they are selling is going to cost 25k. I dont want...
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I purchased my Los Angeles (Compton) 4-bedroom home in 2013 for 240K; according to Redfin, it is now worth 686K. 2 years ago the entire house was completely renovated (Insurance claim) due to a burst pipe that caused ...