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Hi,Assume there is no cost for mortgage requesting for my lender. Assume my marginal income tax bracket is very high, and mortgage rate is 5.25%. If I have lump-sum free cash, should I just apply it to my mortgage to ...
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1. My parents are trying to decide whether or not to payoff the mortgage on a single family rental they own in Las Vegas. 2 I'm trying to do a ROI analysis so that we can compare whether or not they should keep the...
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Good Afternoon BP,
Hope this post finds everyone healthy during this wild time.
I'm curious how others model their total portfolio's when using Real Estate, and how they come to their conclusions about allocations ...
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Can we talk about great Realty Income (ticker symbol "O") has been doing? I know some of us aren't a fan of a stocks but in the past year, it has returned ~33% on top of paying roughly a ~4% dividend. It is one of m...
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I am 24yrs old and really want to get serious with investing, both stocks and real estate. Any tips you can give me or do’s and do not’s when purchasing my first rental or how to approach stocks? Even any books to rea...
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Real estate is harder than it's been in more than a decade -- we all know this. High prices + high mortgage rates + low inventory is making this a challenge. So my question is -- in an era where you can get a 5% CoCR...
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Yesterday during the conversation with my investor, I was asked where I think the real estate market in Philly is going in this special time where people are afraid that the pandemic is going to kill their investment....
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Hey there BP Community!I had a very interesting conversation the other day with a Buy and Hold stock investor who is completely sitting on the sidelines with Stable Funds over the next six months to a year. He said th...
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This is not to alarm anyone, but just to be diligent. Aside from being a business owner, I'm also a stock trader and I don't like the action on Wallstreet. I'm a technical trader and simply use charts for trading. I s...
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Hello BP Fam,I have seen the name advertised on BP podcasts time and time again, though am uncertain as to what it really is. Does it have to do with REITs?