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Does anyone know of any hot markets in Macomb County, Michigan right now? Job growth, population growth, developments, home value growth, etc?
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I was asking myself this question the other day:If I was an average person investing in a random town in a random part of the United States, would I be better off investing in Real Estate, or the Stock Market?Turns ou...
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I'm currently in my mid-20s, and I'm trying to set a course for my future to stick on. I've long held an interest in real estate investing, but I'm unsure if it really fairs as comparably as many seem to suggest as my...
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I know at times you may have wanted to rip your hair out (or maybe not) from dealing with tenants, or going through high vacancy periods, to maybe doing a bad deal on a house.
Did you ever think investing in the sto...
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Sorry in advance for a long post; I want to write a detailed post on how I got started in RE investing a few years ago, the lessons I learned along the way, and why I'm thinking about stopping now. I want to be as spe...
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Hi all, I have an interesting off-market deal I am trying to put together that would involve a loan payoff in cash and the remainder of the negotiated property value in stock of a not-listed startup. The seller needs ...
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I got $100K available for investing for up to 12 months only. I would normally spread this money over a view real estates and go for the long term, but for short term and having the stock market crashed, I am thinkin...
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New REI. Trying to decide whether I should cash out my 401k and IRA or my mutual funds and stocks to get the down for my first rental property. I have about the same $$ in each, and both seem to be performing about th...
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Is there any data about what's the better investment route? Short-term rental, long-term renter, or just keeping money in the stock market. I'm seeing the average return in the stock market is about 10%, which beats t...
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Here is my story sorry it is long. Scroll to the end for the TLDR.5 years ago I was working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week managing a restaurant in the DC area. I became obsessed with frugality and the Stock Market dur...