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Coming across this website and the Financial Independence subreddit, I've gotten an itch to increase my rental real estate portfolio to start generating residual income. My wife and I sat down together to look at our...
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Stocks? Bitcoin? Etc.. I know there are plenty of different ways to invest in real estate, but assume you wanted to diversify and invest away from real estate— where would you go? Curious to hear where the biggerpocke...
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Just wanted to get some opinions from the pros..I've been watching the stock market(probably my first mistake..lol) and every time it drops I get more of an urge to click that buy button. Since the real estate market ...
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While this forum is primarily Real Estate driven I was wondering if there was anybody that took there income earned through Real Estate whether it be via rehabbing,buying and selling, landlording ETC. and invested...
Hello,I'm looking at putting together my first project - a multifamily in Houston. I ran the numbers and came up with a 17% IRR and a 7% cap rate over a 20 year horizon. I'm trying to understand whether this project i...
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According to this article, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/history-says-home-real-estate-is-a-bad-investment/if you take out the recent housing bubble and just look at returns on real estate for the past 100 years, you wi...
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The title says it all assuming you can get back 7% on stock gains yearly, going by current trends this seems extremely conservative, companies today seem to be growing much faster than the historical data we usually r...
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Friends! I am calling it now, this Trump scandal is going to be the catalyst that sends the US into another economic recession. This is not necessarily a bad thing though, here's why.Over the last hundred years the NA...
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Hello,I've started pricing out rental properties on Redfin using a spreadsheet I downloaded from the files section here at Bigger Pockets. Something I'm still not understanding is how long term rentals actually beat t...
Im currently thinking of buying stocks to pay off my mortgage. I’ve gotten at least 70% returns in my two portfolios I’m currently paying an extra 2500 a month in principal payments. My mortgage is 2450 a month. I owe...