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I'm listening to a webinar from Phil Grove with a houston meetup that I couldn't attend tonight. Has anyone heard of him and what do you think? I am thinking he is a GURU.
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Hi!So I've been listening to a lot of podcasts and following the forums. I'm from the Bay Area, California and since prices are crazy here I'd like to invest out of state. I have this goal of acquiring a property befo...
Today, in Sept 2018 the Stock Market is at 28,000. An all time high. The average wage is $26 per hour. It takes 1,077 work hours to “buy the market”. That is, if you buy one share each of the stocks of the Dow, the co...
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Lets see how much thought is going to go into this housing / bank bailout . . . frankly, I'm starting to think that the move to make is to stop paying the mortgage so I can:
a) Get "bailed out"
b) Renegotiate my loa...
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A little background on me, I'm 38 been with my current company 22 years managing a large retail business. I get paid fairly well, $90,000+ annual salary but I'm just exhausted with the hours, nights, weekends and holi...
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This discussion was cropping up in another thread about a different topic, and I wanted to hear more feedback from other members about what they prefer. As a primer, I am going quote @Rich Weese contributed as I find ...
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Aloha all I am trying to learn more about real estate. I live in Hawaii and with the economy here it feels impossible to buy and turn a profit in this market. Has anyone had any success? Please share your story
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I've decided to take the plunge into real estate investing. I'm reading all these great articles on BP (thank you for providing this amazing and extremely useful resource!!) and also have a stack of books on house fli...
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So how much longer can this boom continue around here? I live in Palo Alto, where I have my main residence. I own rental properties in San Mateo, Foster City and East Palo Alto. The one in East Palo Alto I only pur...
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Today is Thanksgiving. Lots of time to talk shop, politics, or real estate investment with family and friends. I just spoke to acquaintance of in law, and he mentioned purchasing home within a year. I spoke to him abo...