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Investors, I am in the process of building my portfolio. I have 2 cashflowing SFHs and I'm working on #3. I watched my sister build a portfolio beginning with a single house hack in 1994. She added 1 or 2 additiona...
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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 am a San Diego realtor and broker. I have been seeking a multi family complex where I can house hack for a couple years now with no luck on anything that remotely makes sense. All the deals I analyze are negative c...
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Hi guys
I live in North Cal, been buying properties for a year, recently got interested in auction sales. I am hoping some of you could share some advice on how to buy from auction, (Trustee vs REO, tenant o...
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The trending topics are flooded with concerns based on current events, and understandably so. However, life goes on! What’s going well for everyone??For me, I have a couple great successes1. A deal fell through in a v...
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Good contractors are so hard to find?
I dont have any experience dealing with contractors, but I frequent several REI message boards and it seems to me that one of the biggest complaints I see over and over is how ha...
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Hi Everyone,I have been interested in real estate investing for a couple years, but have decided NOT to pursue buying rental homes at this time. I have three young kids and decided it would be easier to invest in sto...
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Economic Update(Monday, November 16, 2020)
Last week, the stock market roared higher on the news that a highly effective Covid-19 vaccine appeared to be just on the horizon. That was great news, but there’s still ...
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Hi there,My wife and I are looking to learn and start investing in the US. We are a little bit familiar with the Texas market where we feel confident about the economics of this state.We are particularly interested in...
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Hi BP,
You know how they ask at the end of each podcast "What do you believe sets apart successful real estate investors from all those who give up, fail, or never get started?" --- well, I have been in the "never g...