I’ll have cash $100,000 in May, I have $50,000 now invested in the stock market (receiving a small windfall in May). I figured I’d wait to invest in something bigger in May when I have more for a downpayment. My initi...

A look into Austin MSA related to real estate before & after the COVID-19 pandemic, and into the future.
I wrote a similar paper almost a year ago today, good cross reference for this read.
Leading up to and con...

I am a 44 year old man with a family and the best of intentions. My 401k is about 14 years old and our 529 started on my daughters 1st B-day. She's going to be 4 soon. My problem is there are SO many choices for these...

Fellow BPers,I found a commercial retail property (strip mall) that I am interested in but I have no idea how to evaluate it. I've never done any strip malls before. How do I run the numbers? How do I know if this is ...

Hi everyone! I rented out my first home in July of 2018 to a family in MD. I rented to this family (8 total) because my realtor, whom I have been very good friends with now for years now, told me that they were in a j...

My father is a school teacher who will in a couple years be retired with his full pension from the school system. He also has a Roth IRA and 401k. He’s just a middle class guy who has saved his whole life. Robert Kiyo...

I have an issue that I never though of until I started looking at real estate in different markets. I'm from IL which is what I learned a high tax state not just for property but for everything.
I inherited the famil...

Earlier this month (February 2018), my company closed on a 400+ unit apartment community, which put our portfolio at over $510,000,000 worth of apartment communities across nearly 6,000 units.After closing on each dea...

The Everything Store by Brad Stone - Takeaways from the book! James’s Intro 9th book of the year out of my goal of 52 this year. For me this book had a lot of little takeaways so I’ll just list them out in no order....

This list could probably be fifty bullet points long and still not enough, but here are some tips, honest mistakes and things I wish someone had told me, or they told me and I didn't hear what they were saying. These ...