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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...

Lee L. failing, failing miserably
27 November 2018 | 43 replies

STR in the Mount Snow VT area, I just started this fall, it is a family owned house. We are entering the peak rental season and so far I only have 2 bookings. If I can't increase the bookings enough to cover the expen...

Jeremiah H. Not sure what to do with a house with equity and need advice
17 August 2015 | 56 replies

I purchased a SFH for my primary residence about 3 years ago via short sale. Purchase price was 133K, I put down 20% with a 2.99%APR on a 15 year loan. I owe around 90k on it currently and it's worth roughly 180k. We ...

Dhar Rawal My success story: Turning $250k into tax free $1.25mil
21 July 2021 | 89 replies

I got out of the stock market in 2009 after taking a $300k loss. Ironically, I had made about the same amount by actually predicting the crash and shorting the market at the top. I thought I could predict the upturn a...

Liz C. First time buying turn key property out of state norada
25 January 2019 | 64 replies

I have been on biggerpocket for a while finally decide to try one of the turn key Company called Norada Real Estate( yes I find them here ) To starting to work.

As first time out of state turn key buyer , I just want...

Elizabeth Wilson Is BBB cost worth it?
3 May 2018 | 22 replies

We recently hired an intern and during a discussion yesterday she mentioned that she tried to find us on BBB to see if we were legit.I never thought about having that additional third-party accreditation like BBB woul...

Dawn Anastasi Rental #16 under contract!
24 March 2017 | 143 replies

My rental property goal was 16 properties. And now I'm under contract on rental #16!It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath property with a 2.5 car garage and partially fenced in yard located just 7 houses down from a rental I alrea...

Hobart King Insurance is killing my rentals
4 November 2020 | 111 replies

Can someone tell me what a normal amount is to pay for Insurance on low end rental properties? I own two rental properties in a 50/50 partnership in Birmingham, AL. 
Rental 1: Market Value ~50k. Insurance Payments ar...

Mark L. How to invest my life savings of $250K?
17 January 2010 | 45 replies

OK, long story short... I bought a unit with 20% down about 5 years ago, fixed it up very nice, rented it out, paid off the mortgage note, sold it, saved up more $, and now I have just under $250,000 in my high yield...

Nicholas B. Loan term and negative cash flow - Struggling with the concept...
21 December 2015 | 35 replies

Regarding small scale rental properties or I believe "buy and hold" is the term used around here (sorry, I'm new to all this).I notice that a lot of investors mortgage properties for 10, 20, even 30 years - whatever i...