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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...

Bassma Mancilla Struggling to decide what to fix on first investment property
11 July 2023 | 50 replies

Hi all, Context: Out of state investor (living in california, there's no way I can afford to invest here)Made an offer, got it accepted. Second time this has happened and again, paid for an inspection only to find big...

Mindi Rosser Best car for new real estate agent?
9 January 2023 | 140 replies

I'm nearing the end of real estate school and will be taking my state exam in mid-July. I've been reading @Scott Trench's book, Set for Life, and I'm bought into the concepts. The problem I'm having is... figuring out...

Nick Troutman Investing now vs wait and see the ripple effect of CORONAVIRUS
21 June 2020 | 147 replies

What are your thoughts on the positives vs negatives of investing now vs waiting to see what will happen with this market. I feel like a lot of the experts are saying stay in cash and wait (Bigger pockets podcast last...

Shiloh Lundahl Best Passive Income Investments
4 June 2018 | 102 replies

To the BiggerPockets community,What have been your best passive investments? By passive I mean less than 1 hour of your time in total a month on the investment.  What was the initial cost?  How much time did it initia...

Mark Gallagher Diary - Buying a non-performing note NPN from start to finish
18 July 2017 | 160 replies

For the past few months, years perhaps, I've been trying to soak up knowledge in the area of note buying. It has been especially intriguing to me since my partner and I handle a large volume of foreclosures and I get ...

Michael McKay Facebook Ads for Motivated Seller Leads [Progress thread]
13 June 2021 | 127 replies

There are a lot of posts and Youtube videos on using Facebook to generate motivated seller leads, but most of these only cover a small part of the overall marketing campaign. Online marketing has evolved a lot in the ...

Wendy Black Comedian John Oliver on Mobile Home Perils
15 February 2020 | 61 replies

This made me cringe...We've got mobiles rented in NorCal by people of very modest means and have been mindful of that.https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/john-oliver-mobile-home-rent-rolfe-last-week-tonight.html

Katie Douglas Frustrated with Bigger Pocket Posts
29 November 2015 | 109 replies

Hello, I'm a newbie and this is my first post on Bigger Pockets although I have lurked here for several years. While I have been able to find invaluable information on this site, I find many of the posts (especially i...

Devin James To those who consider themselves very wealthy, is wealth worth what is takes?
22 January 2025 | 56 replies

To those who consider themselves very wealthy, is wealth worth what is takes to acquire it?I don't want to become ultra wealthy because I don't want to do what it takes.I love spending time with my wife and being home...