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The title says it all assuming you can get back 7% on stock gains yearly, going by current trends this seems extremely conservative, companies today seem to be growing much faster than the historical data we usually r...
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Hello BP People!I figured this might be the best place to post this and get feedback. Through networking, I have perhaps stumbled upon the golden goose that all real estate investors seek. No offense to a the hard mon...
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For us real estate investors this is a good time to have rental properties while we watch others portfolios crash with the stock market.Other than a moderately safe mutual fund I contribute to monthly and my 401k, I a...
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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...
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Hi BP, I have been researching, reading and listening to everything I can find in REI for the last few months. I feel that settling on the plan to follow is the biggest hurdle. I am pretty sure I now understand my inv...
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I am new to real estate investing. So please forgive any wording that is incorrect in this post. But, a lot of people I have talked to say to stay away from property managers and mange the properties yourself. Yet on ...
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Just a quick disclaimer. This is a really long post. Also I am also now employed by a self storage operator so my opinion is probably is not objective.I was a professional sale person who "retired" on 3/31/2018 to l...
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Wondering if any wholesalers or other investors have used this software service, REI Reply. Seems too good to be true and wisdom tells me that it probably is. But hey, maybe they've cracked the code or something. I th...