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After reading these forums for a while and learning about the 2% rule, I'm a bit confused as to why someone would buy a house and rent it out in very HCOL areas like San Francisco. I live in Melbourne Australia and o...
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Investment Info:
Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment in Mitchell.
Purchase price: $1,065,000
Cash invested: $266,250
Contributors:
Josh Utterback
Property is 15 Un...
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I as reading about some technical signals in the stock market, specifically the 'Hindenburg Omen', and started thinking about the state of our economy, inflation, the markets, and how I'm managing my money. Of course...
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I am evaluating if it would make sense for me to move my 401k into a self directed IRA and use it to invest in a turn key property. The one thing that is bothering me is that I feel like I cannot use the profit for qu...
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Hey guys! So My buddy and I were talking yesterday about the corona drama and our rentals. We were talking worst case scenario. He was telling me that he doesn’t make much from his 3 rental properties (3 SFH) and th...
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I have some cash on hand which is not enough to buy a nice city condo in the US, but may be enough to buy a nice one or two bedroom condo internationally - somewhere like Spain (barcelona or southern beach area), down...
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The heart of this question is the tolerance with different investor strategies regarding positive cash flow vs. appreciation potential.
This scenario is probably more common in California due to the difficult...
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Many of us is trying to get out of the Rat Race and have probably thought about living abroad. With the uncertainty of the US economy, many savy Investors of our times such as the Trumps, Kiyosaki and Buffett have ...