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Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, TN.
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I'm back on BP after a long break. I have a lot of federal student loans (sigh) that is currently sitting around 200 grand. I do want to invest in real estate but with such debt, I'm unsure if it's smarter to get star...
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When comparing sell or hold options, what formulas are most helpful? What is the ratio that drives you to decide one way or the other? I have a bit of equity on a property with very low debt, and it looks like prices ...
Hi all,
I am new to investing, and am about to buy my first real estate investment. I am trying to figure out how to calculate my return (cash on cash?/after tax), and have had a couple different people tell me diff...
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I'm new to this great site & would like to ask some questions on my situations here:
Bought this home in March 2007 for $625K as a primary residential.
- Down =$62.5k (my money) + Second =$62.5k (same lender).
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I have been looking into IRR and NPV and I am hearing mixed reviews about both of them so I was wondering if you really need either of these two formulas or is one better than the other?
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I have been interested in utilizing investor Self Directed IRAs for some time for my Real Estate projects. Reading Raising Private Capital by Matt Faircloth has convinced me it's time to start looking into this, but I...
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So far, I’ve only done buy and hold residential real estate. I’m ready to start venturing into multi family and looking at some small apartment buildings (8-16 units) but wanted to get some recommendations on any book...
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First off thank you for taking a second to read this post, any experience and knowledge provided is very helpful.I'll start off, the beginning of this year I made the stupid choice of drinking and driving, I was black...
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Hello! I am considering selling ~$300k in stock that I've accumulated over the past 10 years. How would you suggest I use this money to generate the maximum amount of monthly cashflow? I was considering purchasing a s...