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Its amazing that the morning of January 1st I knew nothing about real estate investing. Now after purchasing six deals with a seventh under contract I realize I have just scratched the surface and have much more to le...
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Where are all my boring investors at? Does anyone else prefer good old buy-and-hold long-term rentals?
20-25% down, duplex, break even on cashflow in a promising area. That's what gets me excited.
I've done major r...
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After looking at the opportunities available in RE investing and analyzing the risks and rewards I decided that there are better options available to build wealth. It pains me to say this since I have been an apprais...
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Hey guys. My wife and I have been married for 1 year. My wife is someone who takes convincing to take on risks and I understand her concern since my tendency is to pursue things feet first and go after it. She is okay...
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Hello bp subscribers. My wife and I are brand new to the real estate investing world, and are looking @ all of our options for financing out first property, and one of them is possibly taking from my employee based 40...
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Has anyone come across the Money Merge Account (MMA), which is being marketed by United First Financial?
The idea is to use a HELOC to prepay your first mortgage by timing additional payments. It is supposed to be be...
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I recently watched the bigger pockets podcast with Brad Dantonio as the guest. Brad bought 5 properties with cash in order to maximize cash flow and retire early. After thinking about it, wouldn't it be wise to do the...
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There is an economic term called diminishing marginal rate of return. Meaning for every one more unit sold the benefit becomes less and less. With the rise in college tuition costs and the strong emergence of availabi...
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My situation is that I'm 45 years old and I have a 401K with my current employer. They match 100% up to 3% then 50% up to 5%. So I contribute 5% and get 4%, immediately vested. I've been contributing this for about 13...
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I don't understand people who are long term tenants, and the logic behinds it bothers me. They are paying monthly rent to other people, which doesn't make sense to me. If they have money to pay rent each month for lon...