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hi all ,i want to start investing n the stock market any books suggestions ?
One of biggest issues I’ve personally had with Real Estate in general is the very large up front costs, arduous process and illiquidity involved in it. So many R.E. Owners and agents constantly say this property is wo...
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Can't find out why real estate is considered riskier than stocks. Is it only because of liquidity risk? Trying to buy second vacation home, so need to sell off stocks. Am I jumping from the frying pan into the fire?...
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Hey I'm Seth and recently I have been putting most of my money into stocks hoping that in the next year or so I could use the money to start house hacking, I am working and make roughly 1000 a month as I am still in h...
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Hello,I am just starting my real estate journey by reading various books on the topic. Why is it that passive income is touted as such a major benefit of owning rental property? It seems that the same profit could be ...
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Hey!
I was just wondering what everyone thinks about keeping your reserves in a 60/40 stock/bond portfolio? Maybe having a slightly larger amount of reserves than normal to be able to withstand any sort of downturn?...
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Hey everyone! I’m from the Philadelphia area and am looking to get in STR. Although I do not currently have a STR I was starting to think about tax season. I was thinking about obtaining a CPA for the upcoming tax sea...
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I'm wondering which REI metric is best to use when comparing a Real Estate deal to the return on the Stock Market. In addition, how do I know if I'm receiving an appropriate risk premium for the extra risk I'm taking ...
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Alright, so it's been another month and I would like to chat a bit about the portfolio I prepared back in the middle of March.
This was two months ago, I felt pretty strongly that the market had bottomed out or was v...
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Real estate is harder than it's been in more than a decade -- we all know this. High prices + high mortgage rates + low inventory is making this a challenge. So my question is -- in an era where you can get a 5% CoCR...