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Good afternoon, everyone!My name is Curtis and I am extremely excited to start my real estate investing career! I'm 30 years old and I'm from the Chicago south suburbs. For the last 10 years, I have worked as an IBEW ...
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Hello! I am currently a junior in high school and I am on pace to save up 10,000 dollars when I graduate. The college I am going to for a bachelor's degree for accounting is going to cost me 20,000 dollars. I was wond...
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Hi guys,
We are new here but name is Keanna, I'm 27 years old and my husband's name is Leonard, he's 28! We are two travel nurses that are looking to eventually replace nursing with real estate!
We purchased our p...
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I am in a very frustrating stage in my life. I want to buy my first property but me and my girlfriend agreed that we will pay off all of our dept and then we will save up 25k before looking to house hack. Even though ...
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Ok, really opening a can of worms here but I am interested in some diverse opinions. Basic question: Should I pay cash for properties or get them financed and leverage myself.
Background. I plan to retire ...
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Okay, let's say safe and relatively fast?Here's one scenario that I have been tossing around this month after reading Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner and a couple of other books.Say I have around $250,000 ...
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Hey! My name is David. I am an aspiring real estate investor in Colorado Springs, CO and am looking to make some connections. I would love the opportunity to expand my understanding about the business and further defi...
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OK I would like to get some advice I have a completely paid off house Proxima appraisal is about $134,000 I bought it as a fix and flip I was going to use the profits and go buy a more fixing flips-but I found ...
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I'm reading a lot of papers today? I worry when Greece comes to meet with our president about economies. What did we give Greece this time? Greece spends more servicing its' debt than its GDP. Unfortunately, we're o...
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My husband and I just paid off all of our bad debt with a HELOC, 28k, two months ago. It’s now paid down to 26k. We pay roughly $1000 a month on it now. Our home is worth 275-280k. We owe 205k on it. Our credit scores...