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Robbie Taylor Why not snowball the debt on real estate investments?
15 May 2017 | 66 replies

I love the forums and the podcasts, but one constant I see is that people are looking to add more properties or refinance properties for cash to buy more properties etc.Why don't more people start snowballing down the...

Account Closed "Replace Your Mortgage" HELOC Strategy
20 June 2023 | 81 replies

Hi all. Apologies if this topic is addressed in another part of the forum; I've checked through and couldn't find anything which specifically addressed my question. I am a young investor with no experience when it com...

Sam B. $200k in six months - long distance RE challenge
17 December 2021 | 229 replies

I day traded currency futures in a past life and always kept an online journal to keep me accountable, share what I was doing with the community and have a little bit of fun.  Even 10+ years later, I enjoy reading bac...

Denny Moody BP, help me pick a city for Buy and Hold!
29 April 2017 | 135 replies

Hey BP,I live in San Diego, CA and would like to invest out of state. I like the idea of investing OOS because it means my investments will have to be passive and it gives me the whole country to choose from. The down...

Matt Cramer Can Rich Dad Poor Dad beat up Dave Ramsey?
26 December 2016 | 151 replies

To borrow or not to borrow, debt free is the way to be etc etc etc. The way I see this is a risk vs reward. How do you decide though where the risk is to great or the reward to little? How do you decide to purchase a ...

Jaden Adams Dropping out of college
17 December 2019 | 210 replies

I’m a 19 year old freshman in college studying architecture but I’m realizing I’m more interested in the business of buildings and not building them. There’s a real estate program here, but I’d be going 100+ thousand ...

Rafael Ro Safe and stable investment: Do I buy rental properties or keep money in a HYSA?
11 January 2025 | 67 replies

Hello all,
I would really appreciate your insights here.
I live in CA and have a family with 2 kids - we're not moving anywhere. Have about 50k I would invest (access to more), with excellent credit and good income ...

Matthew Mucker Where does the 50% rule come from?
1 May 2021 | 300 replies

I know the "50% rule" is bandied about as gospel here in the forums, but haven't seen any actual, hard data that says that operating expenses tend to be ~50% of gross rent income. I'd like to verify this number is, in...

Riley F. Appreciation - how to factor it in?
17 February 2015 | 223 replies

For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...

Shera Gregory PIP Group / PIP East / PIP West
19 February 2019 | 67 replies

I mentioned in a separate post over a year ago that I had bought some tax liens through PIP East and was hopeful on the prospect of obtaining a property that way. My experience was an example of "be careful what you w...