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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...

Cory Lee Starting my journey
11 November 2016 | 13 replies

Hello Everyone!          My name is Cory Lee and I'm just beginning my journey as a Real Estate investor in Tampa Bay area of Florida. I have always envisioned myself Building Wealth through the aquisition of multi-fa...

Account Closed What was your job before you went full-time?
16 October 2015 | 59 replies

Real estate agent? Accountant? Grocery store manager? Pizza delivery guy?Just out of curiosity, what was your job before you decided (or were able) to live off your investments? Doesn't matter how high/low paying or u...

Rustin Dowd Frugal Lifestyle - Scott Trench Podcast
23 July 2019 | 10 replies

@Scott Trench, loved your podcast. Our values and beliefs are identical. I am turning 26 this year and actually have been going through the same thing you outline in podcast and I believe you go over in your book. I l...

Sara Abernethy Macroeconomic reasons to invest in real estate (versus stocks)
23 February 2017 | 19 replies

Can anyone direct me to any good (sourced) charts/graphs that show why buy&hold real estate is a much better investment in the long term than the stock market?  Pulling together a presentation and wanted to show a...

Jay G. The FED (FOMC) is about to raise rates... 20 minutes.
5 May 2022 | 26 replies

This is the BEFORE chart for today below. (source: https://www.mortgagenewsdaily....)     ... in about 20 minutes we find out if we raise .25bp  .50bp (expected) or possibly more.   I wonder what this chart will look ...

Mary Jay Maxing out 401k or buy Real Estate instead?
9 April 2023 | 29 replies

Hi guys,Can you please help me out?Ive been struggling with figuring out what to do. I have been putting 18K into my 401K for the last 4 years and now have 100K in it. Ive been thinking that may be I should instead be...

Collin Hays Wonder where I've been the last 2 wks? Read on for your own good!
19 December 2021 | 17 replies

I haven't been posting on this forum because I have been busy cleaning up my life.  I am going to go off topic here and I hope you pay attention. Many of you have saved and invested very diligently to get to where yo...

Michelle Dong 1st time looking to buy an investment property
9 April 2020 | 44 replies

I live in West Palm Beach Florida and am looking to buy a SFH to house hack. The issue I’m having is finding a townhouse/villa or SFH to fill what I qualify for. Any advice on how I can find deals that catch flow an...