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Real estate investors ❗🫵🏘️🏠🏞️WHY❓..... are you relying on banks for funding your deals when whole life insurance offers the same function but with (many) MORE benefits, both short and long term? 🤔💡**Access to Cash Val...
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Caution, long post, but worth it!
I’ve posted on here in the last few years about our journey into Short Term Rentals, and the way that it has drastically changed the velocity of our financial future. From those pos...
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The Orange County Register ran this article by me on 11/6/2011, and I though you-all might like it.
Debt is the worst drug in America, because it directly harms the most people.
The debt pushers have en...
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hey allWondering what everyone thinks about the market going bust when the Fed EVENTUALLY and INEVITABLY hikes the rate. Id love to hear from some professionals who have been in the business for a while. Do you see ...
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@Matthew Irish-Jones started what I think is a discussion of great worth while I was on my most recent vacation. I highly recommend it to everyone who's thinking about starting out:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums...
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I was not sure where to post this. Is anyone investing in Opportunity Zones either directly or through a platform? If so, what strategies are people working on, and if you are using a platform, which platform is loo...
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Does anyone have any helpful tips for removing or reducing PMI on an existing mortgage? The house I currently live in has a monthly mortgage payment of $1950, $300 of which is PMI. My wife and I have lived here fo...
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Hi all,
How do you withdraw the money in your current employer's 401(k)? I don't have a financial hardship, and I don't want to take out a 401(k) loan. Is this possible at all?
I know there are penalties for withdra...
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I'd be very interested in everyone's thoughts on where the RE market is heading in the next 10 years, primarily in current hot markets.The SF Bay Area, as well as others, have shown a dramatic increase in both market ...
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We have a house that we owe $235K on the first and another $85K on the second. The house is on a penninsula that is reclaimed phosphate mine in the middle of a lake. Most of the home owners on the penninsula have file...