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Hey People with plans. Good to be here. Got stuck working for the enemy and have recently broke free. We sold our home up in NW WA state and lowering our overhead is what we were shooting for. I have a marketing pla...
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So I'm selling one of my rental properties for about a $15K gain in order to put some extra reserves into my pocket to help support buying more properties. I wasn't planning on doing a 1031 exchange as I need the cash...
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Hi Everyone,Would love some advice from those of you who have been in my shoes before. I'm new to this and cramming education quickly. Im a young corporate sales professional with a large income (which we all know mea...
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I just listened to the recent BP podcast with Dr Benjamin Aaker and Dave Meyer from a couple of weeks ago.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1045There was a section where Dr Aaker talks about focusing on e...
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Hello, I am 25 and just moved to VA Beach and started in REI. I just purchased my first primary home, single family, as a short sale, for 130k that is certainly worth 160k or more (170k or more after I do some simp...
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So the main definition of net worth to my knowledge is, after selling all assets minus liabilities you get your net worth. I believe a lot of times when we try and do a quick net worth calculation for an investment pr...
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Trying to decide on using reserves to pay off rental mortgage or keep. I am retired, 72 and own 4 college rental houses. Zero vacancy as housing shortage is acute and typically let students pick their successors. I st...
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I just created an LLC for my rental property, so this is all new to me. Is there any reason to pay a salary to my spouse? If I pay her, to make this simple let's say $2k a month, she'll pay taxes on that which means...
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I've just come under contract for a 12-unit apartment in Spokane, WA that was built in the 70's and remodeled in 2014. Purchase price was $720,000, and I intend to hold on to the property for >5 years. It is not pa...
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This is a hypothetical situation. Billy has a day job earning $100,000 per year in California. He wants to build a real estate empire in his local market as the king of residential real estate (1-4 units). What value ...