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Account Closed How Investing in the Stock Market Saps Your Wealth
13 January 2021 | 243 replies

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...

Philip Hy Are buy and hold's really making money? Big picture question
21 May 2017 | 148 replies

I'm wondering if we're really making money. Not a rhetorical question, but would like genuine feedback. Here's the scenario. I want to live off of cash flow so I buy a lot of SFR. I then currently make about 550 cash ...

Demetrius Bradley Why should anyone use a Realtor
29 April 2010 | 49 replies

Sorry if this is the wrong place to question this, but why should any buyer or seller use a realtor? I have been having this argument over the last 2 years because in my opinion (base on real facts) Realtors are the t...

Dan Mahoney How to buy a tax deed at the Fulton County Tax Sale, Atlanta, GA
29 April 2024 | 168 replies

I thought I would share my experience of how to buy tax deeds on the steps of the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a long post because it is actually a complicated process. Please note that thes...

Patrice Boenzi Wholesaling - Is It About to Change?
18 December 2019 | 197 replies

The Real Estate License Act (RELA) of 2000 is about to sunset. Check out the changes they are making to the RELA regarding wholesaling. How do you think this will affect things? 
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K S. My 100k house vs 100k in the S&P 500 (16 years later)
10 December 2023 | 289 replies

A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...

Joshua Milam What to major in College for RE investing?
28 July 2022 | 147 replies

Hello everyone, I have a family friend that is about to go to college and is very interested in real estate investing and says that will be his future. He asked me what he should major in and I told him business admin...

Eddie Ziv Appreciation VS. Cash flow - The clash of the titans....
15 June 2010 | 341 replies

I recently (...like an hour ago :mrgreen: ) went through this thread exploring the old argument between the cash flow guys and the appreciation guys.More specifically MikeOH and Nationwidepi (Mike and will) and off co...

JR C. Hereos Act will hurt landlords in a bad way
2 June 2021 | 323 replies

Forgive me if this has been posted before. A search didn't find anything. As you probably know, the Democrats in the House passed the Hereos Act, A part of this bill calls for a Federal Ban on evictions of any residen...

Sergio Aguinaga lease options questions
21 November 2021 | 68 replies

Hello everyone, I'm from Michigan and I'm learning lease options. I've read Wendy Patton's Sandwich Lease Options book and I've seen multiple videos on YouTube including Chris Goff, Joe McCall, etc. But, having never ...