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Dear BP friends --I am thinking of buying a property for cash. However, I am concerned about using up all of my non-retirment money on a property deal. It's just scary. We obviously need to have an emergency fund f...
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Hi all,
It seems to me that everyone I've talked to is waiting for the bubble to burst. Investors, people who are trying to buy their first home or people who want to trade up but can't right now.
If the market drop ...
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Hello, I am a 19yr old who is still a beginner & learning the ins & outs of investing in stock market. Should I focus on investing in a ROTH IRA or A Brokerage account? I still live with my parents and have no...
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There are at any given time several posts about how people are “waiting for the correction or crash” to invest in RE. Are there any BP investors who have deliberately (in a planned manner) timed a market knowing a cor...
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Good morning,I had a real estate investor friend, that is also new to real estate investing, mention that a self-directed 401k or IRA can be helpful for tax purposes. I am looking for assistance in finding correct/hel...
With stock investing I can spend a few minutes a month looking at stock prices and entering a buy or sell order in my brokerage account and earn 8% annually on average. To earn the same return with real estate, I woul...
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Anyone else getting this question a lot lately?
When we buy notes at a discount our return far surpasses the rate of inflation. In 2020 the average rate of inflation was 1.2%. In the past 20 years the annual average...
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I couldn't believe I read this.
I was in the magazine section of Walmart while my wife was looking for craft materials for her kindergarten students.
I was drawn to "The Essential Retirement Guide" (from Centennial ...
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While this forum is primarily Real Estate driven I was wondering if there was anybody that took there income earned through Real Estate whether it be via rehabbing,buying and selling, landlording ETC. and invested...
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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...