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Welcome to A Skeptical Real Estate Dude my weekly post on market insights coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all y...
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Hi everyone,I've come across a 4 family unit deal in Western Massachusetts that I'd like to put an offer on, I'd just like some input from everyone on the numbers before I go forward with it. This is my first deal so ...
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Greetings! I'm from a relatively small place in far Northern California called Redding. Been doing some things successfully here with real estate for 12 years, but finally waking up to the fact that geographic limitat...
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Real Estate News in Brief
What a week! We had a huge downward revision to the BLS jobs growth figures, the Fed minutes explicitly said that a rate cut on Sept 18 was likely, and average mortgage rates moved below 6.5...
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I'm thinking of selling my personal residence on a wrap, but I wanted to see what you thought about these approximate numbers (rounded for simplicity):
$140k sales price
$30k down payment from buyer
$95k owed on my ...
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Hi guys.A little about myself. Some years back I sold a business. I got a lump sum of cash down and then I carried the contract for the remaining portion. More on that soon. I retired young and moved to Asia. I now ha...
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Midwestern markets are like football teams. Many people have an irrational attachment to them. Even if the population is declining, jobs are disappearing, and the city is mismanaged, they still advocate for them. So, ...
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i'm looking for some ideas on how to use $1M cash to get 150-200k income annually? I'm open for out of the state investments as well and any good advisors that I can work with.
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October Newsletter!
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Hello fellow investors/entrepreneurs! I'm so glad you've taken the time to read my very first New...
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I am planning to make an offer for a duplex, one is vacant and another has long time section 8 tenant. The seller doesn't want to vacant them and we can only vacant them after we bought the property according to the s...