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Economic Update
(Monday, September 14, 2020)
A majority of Los Angeles households face serious financial problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Latinos and Black residents bearing the brunt of the economic pa...
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Good day Biggerpockets community!We are investors from Canada and just starting out in US market as well. We have registered an LLC in US, and I am looking to open a business account for it (we have an account for per...
Here is an article by Don Layton: Senior Industry Fellow at Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University: "The extraordinary and unexpected pandemic increase in house prices: causes and implications" Click h...
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Legendary real estate investor Sam Zell believes (or at least purports to believe) that homeownership will fall to 55%, well below the 64% it is at now and far from the ~69% we saw prior to the crash. Here is the ...
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People are saying that declining home, stock, 401(k), etc values is a destruction of wealth. But I don't believe it and have been arguing that wealth is not destroyed until there is material destruction (i.e. a house ...
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Is a massive real estate crash on the horizon? Experts are divided, but what do you think—are there warning signs suggesting caution for potential buyers and investors?
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I am perpetually game planning future moves and this exercise inevitably requires taking a position on how the near future will unfold and the best way to benefit. I am interested in hearing what BP users think is abo...
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Just a poll people. Curious how other RE investors view the political landscape.
Are you left or right?
I'm on the right. Though I think the next election could go independent :wink:
Cheers,
Mark
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I took the 18 page report released by Trump's committee yesterday and summarized it below.
I hope we can all see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not going to be as easy as turning the light switch ba...
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If you are investing in single family real estate, then you know that rent payments are the cash-flow engine of your investment. So, let us take a look at the motivation behind renting. The first one is nest egg-reluc...