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Hi BP Community! I am looking for any advice someone may have for my current situation, thanks for any help!I own a SFH rental in Peabody, MA which has appreciated quite a bit this past year. Right now the LTV is appr...
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Warren Buffer in a Squawk Box interview revealed if he had the time and patience or if he were somewhat broke, would have gotten into real estate residential investing. In that three hour interview, he mentioned it th...
My wife and I live in our triplex in Los Angeles that recently appraised for $900k (would sell for 1.2-1.3M, but low appraisals for multifamily are typical in our gentrifying area). We have a loan balance of $430K, 3...
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To the BiggerPockets community,What have been your best passive investments? By passive I mean less than 1 hour of your time in total a month on the investment. What was the initial cost? How much time did it initia...
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I recently sold a few thousand dollars in stock that I’ve been accumulating over the past 4 years with the intention of buying and holding real estate. The plan was to acquire one rental before year end and two next y...
I'm thinking about investing in REITs, and from the little that I have heard, they sound too good to be true. Guaranteed returns, nothing to manage, etc... On the surface, they seem like a good way to create annual ...
I just watched the news and heard that there was a 400 point drop in the stock market and it is not going to stop. Will this drop spill over to real estate? I know that many people make predictions about the stock mar...
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Any thoughts on how the brexit will effect the real estate market in the U.S?
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Which do you guys prefer to use and why? Is one better than the other two for certain things?
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Why I like investing in real estate more than 401(k)s.
Both offer tax deferrals, but here's the difference:
If you're making pre-tax contributions to your 401(k), then withdrawals = ordinary income tax.
With real e...