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I have been contributing to a Roth 401k at work. In order to get the full match I put in 6% to get a 4% match. It has built up to almost $9,000. I read Scott Trench's Set for Life for the second time the other day and...
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Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a weekly frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, no A...
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I'm on the hunt for my first deal and feel a bit confused about bank owned properties that are in foreclosure. I'm finding many listings for these properties at a close to retail price, but can tell from the online p...
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Hey BP, I'm looking to buying a 5bd single family home and renting out the rooms while I live there the first year. Assuming I want to stop househacking and rent it to a single family after that, I'm curious as to wha...
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Hello Everyone,I'm interested in purchasing my first investment property in Chicago next year. Trying to gather some thoughts/opinions on the market and maybe some specific neighborhoods to research further.I'm curre...
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I looked at a loan request today. I know the area very well in Philadelphia, without seeing anything my first thought was the property was worth 350k or so. The appraisal came in at 640k, the comps they used were out ...
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We are thinking of buying a rental beach house or bay side house in the Galveston / Crystal Beach area. Does anyone have some good information on the recent insurance ratings, building codes or any other news of pert...
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I found this today about a proposed meltdown:
The Day The Dollar Died
I thought some of our resident Tea Partiers would enjoy it. Most entertaining!
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Millions of Americans skip payments as tidal wave of defaults and evictions looms - NPR
https://apple.news/A-WYJ-9SgSvWi5U9hwSKQ3w
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Recently, instead of bouncing around on the podcasts to different titles that caught my attention, I thought I would add some structure to my listening pattern and start going in order from the very beginning. As many...