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Hi-I'm Brian and I'm located in Seattle. I'm not new to RE investing but I'm surely small potatoes compared to some people here, I have a total of 8 rental units in 3 properties; a triplex, duplex, and 4-plex. ...
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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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One of our Section 8 tenants just informed us that he may end up in an extended stay in a wheelchair. It is a 1st floor 2 bedroom apartment and he has a live in girl (on the lease). They have been tenants of the buil...
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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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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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Millions of Americans skip payments as tidal wave of defaults and evictions looms - NPR
https://apple.news/A-WYJ-9SgSvWi5U9hwSKQ3w
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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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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...