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A move from California to Texas could save a million dollars. Many Americans are opting inSwapna Venugopal Ramaswamy USA TODAY July 4, 2023https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/07/04/california-to-texas-move-risin...
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One thing I've been trying to do yearly is predict my local market (DC/Baltimore). Even when you are wrong, I always think it's a good exercise to figure out how to think about your local market (where your blind spot...
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Hello everyone. I am 20 years old and am trying to start investing and learning about it now. I graduate from college next year and would like to live below my means and invest. I have 1500 saved up and don’t know wha...
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Decent, short read in the link below. As someone who raises capital for a select few syndications, I often get questions around rising interest rates, inflation, will the market crash, etc?In my humble opinion, multif...
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Hey everyone!I’m new to this community and excited to be apart of it. I listen to the podcast usually everyday at work as I’m reading the book “How to invest in Real Estate” My goal this year is to buy my first proper...
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Just curious what some of you syndicators plan to do where you have been buying 3, 4, 5 cap "value add" deals. If rates move against you, what is the plan? I have no dog in the fight but aside from the 100% bonus dep...
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Hello BP members!I've listened, read and debated a lot of material about using retirements funds in a self-directed IRA to invest in real estate. The rules seem really cumbersome and complicated, and since I'm still f...
I've been reading for a while and am fascinated at how some people have the cash on hand to buy:-Properties out right with cash-Multiple properties with 20% down paymentYes I understand there's many ways to finance bu...
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I live in a town where one side of the railroad tracks is "good" and the other is "bad". The majority of my town are renters and there is a fair amount of mobile homes. I'm a Dave Ramsey listener and he is totally ag...
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Hello Again Everyone,I am still slowly saving money for my out of state (OOS) investment property. In the meantime my gears have been grinding on how I can speed up this process, short of, selling some (cough, cough) ...