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I once heard a defintion of "Financial Freedom" that changed my life. The definition went like this;
"FINANCIAL FREEDOM happens when your wants and your needs are exceeded by your passive income."
Once I heard that...
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Hi All,I’ve been in the waterpoofing business for over 12 years and have been reading up a lot lately about REI. I live in Bay Area (Northern California) and planning on starting my real estate investment portfolio. C...
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Hoping someone can provide some logic to the SEC reasoning behind having to be "accredited investor" to invest in certain security offerings. Any other ways around this. Wanting to get into apartment syndication, and ...
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Hey everybody,
I'd love to get some feedback from you about a new strategy that we are getting ready to employ. But first I need to give a little background. Over the past 5 years my business partner and I have bu...
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I think this is the right forum for this question...I have a rental property with high equity and low cash flow. I am thinking to sell it and exchange it via a 1031 for other rental properties with better cash flow.Th...
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Hey BP!I am currently FHA house hacking a property that I purchased about a year ago just south of USC which, unbeknownst to me, had illegal construction, which caused a host of problems, in addition to other issues. ...
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