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I've been doing research on markets for buy and hold for about a month now. I'm checking unemployment rates, population growth, purchase price, rent rates, percentage of renters, etc. and I'm still having trouble iden...
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It's been nearly 2 years since my first post "$1,300,000 Deal at Age 21 & I'm Retired!", I wanted to share an update. Last year, 13 months after I bought my first 20 unit apartment, I had increased the gross month...
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Hi everyone, I am seeing if anyone else here is struggling to get support from your family for your decision to invest in real estate by becoming a landlord. I would like to acquire many more and quit my job some day ...
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Real life of a newbie investorI've been inspired by Account Closed post, "real life of a real estate investor". With that being said, I believe there's value in sharing my journey with other newbies. I will begin givi...
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Looking for suggestions on how to take money out of stocks, invest into real estate, and maximize passive income :)GOAL: $10,000 passive income per monthWHY? To leave our W2 jobs, travel, and spend more time with fami...
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Hi Everyone!I'm looking at living in half of a duplex and renting out the other. Ideally having the other tenant's rent pay for the mortgage payment. Anyways, in looking at the market I think the only probable option ...
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Hello All,I know this is a very common question, but I'm curious what people will say. We recently sold a duplex that was no longer a good investment and made about 160K off of it. I still have about 50K in student de...
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I just hit one of my major life goals of owning over 100 units! I just closed a 70 unit deal which puts me at 118 units total. The reason I post this in the starting out section, is it is important for anyone just get...
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It's been a long road, but I've finally paid off one of my mortgages TODAY.The good thing about this loan is that I took it over "Subject to" many years ago and the owner of the loan had already paid it down some(the ...