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Account Closed How Investing in the Stock Market Saps Your Wealth
13 January 2021 | 243 replies

Today, in Sept 2018 the Stock Market is at 28,000. An all time high. The average wage is $26 per hour. It takes 1,077 work hours to “buy the market”. That is, if you buy one share each of the stocks of the Dow, the co...

Becca F. Do PALs from RE offset capital gains from stock dividends and another question
29 October 2024 | 12 replies

I have been doing my own taxes and have a large amount of Passive Activity Losses from my rentals, don't want to mention the specific number but it's a lot in the thousands. I'm a W2 employee, all long term rentals, n...

Johnny Thompson Smartest place to keep my money?
30 May 2018 | 15 replies

Hello, I'm looking for some advice on my situation as a 28 year old. My real estate goal is to buy enough cash flowing rental properties to retire early and I should need about 10-12 to reach this goal. My short term ...

Dan Brindley Landlords: Did You Ever Wish You Invested in the Stock Market Instead?
6 April 2011 | 25 replies

I know at times you may have wanted to rip your hair out (or maybe not) from dealing with tenants, or going through high vacancy periods, to maybe doing a bad deal on a house.
Did you ever think investing in the sto...

Mark Weins 5 Million in Rentals or 5 million in stocks
15 October 2023 | 43 replies

If I was retiring with 5 million dollars in the bank, and I could only invest all my money into either stocks or a real estate portfolio, I fail to see how one would decide to invest the money into real estate. The S&...

Jay Hinrichs Stock Market what do you think
30 March 2020 | 134 replies

well this morning i bought my first set of stocks since 1997 or so  then got wiped out in the dot com bubble LOLI am up 142.00 dollars for the day..  when i look at all these companies trading at 52 weeks lows and 1.3...

Joshua Dorkin What stocks are you guys watching?
4 November 2007 | 16 replies

I thought we might start a stock thread and see if there is any interest. I'm always on the lookout for new ideas and would love to hear any thoughts.

I don't want this to become a pump and dump thread!

If you've g...

James Krahula Stock Market While Saving For Down Payment?
3 July 2018 | 78 replies

I am currently saving for my first down payment on a buy and hold real estate property. I'm using Barclays with their really high 1.5% APY savings account. A lot of people will argue that if you are saving for a down ...

Joseph M. 5% Returns (In Stock Market) Will Be 'Upper Echelon' for Years: Gross
8 December 2011 | 21 replies

Today there was an article on CNBC stating that Pimco's Bill Gross believes the MAX future returns in the stock market will be 5% per year. URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/45474748

Just wanted to hear what everyone think...