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Results (71)
Jimmy S. Would you rent to a section 8?
30 June 2014 | 47 replies

Long story short I never dealt with section 8.

She is a single mom with 5 kids, yes 5 kids. Right away I can see the kids damaging everything. Rent is $1050 a month and section 8 will pay for $800+ each mon...

Karen Margrave People are fleeing California, are you?
26 January 2019 | 311 replies

I was born and raised in CA. It's so heartbreaking to see what is happening to it.  A recent poll says that 46% of the people plan on leaving the bay area. Let's do our own poll (FOR CALIFORNIANS or those that recentl...

Benjamin Williams 1st year college student thinking of dropping out to pursue REI
20 September 2019 | 84 replies

Hello I am 20 years old in my 2nd semester of college. I live alone, am single, have no children. I have no dependents, no car notes, nothing except rent, gasoline, food. The bare minimum. I have a part time job that ...

Omar Ruiz Death of Direct Mail...Birth to Digital Marketing
16 October 2018 | 87 replies

Direct Mail has not worked for me. It is a channel (medium) that is too easy to learn (get a list & mail to that list consistently). It "seems" to work if you have the marketing budget, list, and ability to mail h...

Derek Fike Honest Discussion on STRs
28 February 2024 | 49 replies

Hey Everyone,I know that there has been quite a bit of conflict as to whether an STR can be profitable or not, so I figured that coming to this community for perspective would be best. I keep hearing that STRs are dea...

Kyle Fitch Why Real Estate Over Stock Market?
6 January 2025 | 57 replies

Hello, I’m new to real estate investing and was hoping some of you would share your thoughts on why it is better to invest in real estate over the stock market. So far, I’ve only invested in stocks and the idea of inv...

Toyin Dawodu Buy and Hold, Does It Really Make Sense?
6 August 2017 | 167 replies

I was once a buy and hold investor. Then one day, my light was turned off by the power company, in the house I lived in.How could that happen? I had 40 houses, but I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul. Edison, the p...

Rich Weese estate planning for well to do or wannabe well to dos!
6 July 2010 | 105 replies

I was asked deep in a buried thread to answer a couple questions about my reply in a recent post. here is the start.
I post a lot about parallel programs. There is a reason I do that. It is the best of both worlds...