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Why invest in real estate?After all, there are lots of things to invest in -- stocks, bonds, precious metals, collectibles. What makes real estate so attractive to you? Is it because it's tangible -- you can ride by...
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Especially @James Hamling , just read a market statistic and its mind blowing.The age of first time home buyer in California is now 49 years old, in 1980 it used to be 32 years old.In TX: 37 years old and FL is 42 ...
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Hello,I'm looking to buy my first 2 rental houses buy the end of 2019. I currently live in Sacramento, CA and have about $200 of Equity in my current home to pull from. I'm looking at buying a 3/1 or 3/2 Single Fami...
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Hello everyone and happy 4th of July!!! I am getting ready to close on a house later this month. 7/15/16 is the closing date right now. I was planning on doing some financing on this one but it has become a little d...
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I am looking at an elementary school that has been abandoned. I am thinking I can turn classrooms into several small pods or rooms like a hostel. put in a pool and some nice common areas to make it kind of a pod resor...