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Account Closed Iraqi Octuplet Welfare Queen
22 February 2009 | 14 replies

Iraqi Octuplet Welfare Queen

The Media has been covering up the facts in the Nadya Suleman case. Her family are Iraqi immigrants on welfare. Her mother, Angela Suleman, filed for bankruptcy an...

Eric James What causes irrational exuberance?
12 August 2005 | 5 replies

With all the talk of bubbles, I was thinking to myself, What causes irrational exuberance in people when it comes to different forms of investing??

It always leads to some bust, and yet it happens over and over again...

Account Closed Where do you invest out of state and why?
2 April 2015 | 14 replies

How do I decide what state to invest in? I am very flexible and love the human race. I do not care if it is in a city or suburban venue. My only real criteria's are at this time. 1. There needs to be a real opportunit...

Chace Fraser What's a good deal / the average 1% Rule output in YOUR market?
3 March 2021 | 8 replies

I don't know about you, but I'm a numbers person. And with all the new properties that come to the market, I use the 1 percent rule as my "back of the envelope" calculation to see if a deal is worth looking deeper int...

Thomasina Pearce Newbie in New York City & North Carolina
7 April 2021 | 10 replies

Hi BP family! I am still in the information stage of my REI journey but looking to purchase my first rental income property in the next 8 months! I currently live in NYC and I am from North Carolina (all of my family...

Christopher Davis Fundamental wealth generating question with example
30 June 2019 | 9 replies

Hi Everyone, I'm in the self-educating-need-to-pull-trigger stage, planning out some paths towards investing in my first property. A little bit of overwhelm too. I have a question on the fundamental concept of generat...

Andy Sabisch Question on tenant smoking marijuana
8 January 2025 | 9 replies

Question . . .our leases have a NO SMOKING INSIDE clause.  On one of our duplexes, the tenant on one side reported that the smell of marijuana is coming from the other side.  Not going to get into a discussion about p...

Bryan Barry Is there a way to get around fraud in the inducement?
15 August 2017 | 24 replies

Before going out and getting my first deal underway I want to know as much as possible and I have bee hearing a lot of "fraud in the inducement" and I was wondering if there was any ways or certain weasel clauses I co...

Celia Moore Biden's Proposes $500,000 Cap on Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges
9 August 2021 | 45 replies

The Federation of Exchange Accommodators (FEA) yesterday issued the following comment in response to President Biden’s American Families Plan, which proposes capping Section 1031 like-kind exchanges at $500,000:
Pres...

Bryan Hancock Is There Value In Having So Many Intermediaries Between Borrowers and The Secondary Market For Mortgages?
11 July 2010 | 8 replies

Fannie and Freddie are obviously doing a terrible job of assessing risk for borrowers with their mounds of prescribed paperwork. Apparently the Danes allow borrowers to access loans via the secondary market directly w...