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I recently commissioned into the Air Force and am considering the USAA Career Starter loan for a future down payment or rehab on a duplex.. with a variety of ways to go about it. I say "future" because I am in pilot t...
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Investing involves risks and rewards – and usually the higher the risk, the greater the potential for significant gains and losses of invested equity. Intuitively, we understand that it’s necessary to take more invest...
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Hello! I have been reading this forum with pretty much every spare moment I have had since this weekend when my fiance led me to it. I think I've become a little obsessed with this idea as I can really see the long te...
I have recently been looking into the possibility of investing in Crowdfunding. I am still fairly new to investing but thought this may be an option to help diversify my portfolio in another way. From what I can gat...
I've been investigating several peer to peer lenders lately and I'm a little weary of them. Some are banned in certain states and I have other concerns. Has anyone used or does anyone know someone who used Lending cl...
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Hello there!My name is Rebecca Bautista. Currently, my husband and I have been researching real estate investing and would like to get to know more people in our area. We are not yet ready to cash-flow a property unti...
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Hi I am relatively new to Real Estate Investing and have been mostly buying buy and hold properties for rental income for past 9 months or so in Chicagoland area - primarily in suburb areas. Have acquired a few SFR / ...
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HiI live in California. I took out a HELOC on my primary residence and used the funds as a deposit on another property which then became my primary residence. The previous primary residence was converted into a renta...
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Hey all, I currently have a rental property that is currently paid off, with about 650k worth of equity. I hate to have all of this equity just sit here doing nothing, so what kind of strategies would you guys take to...
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I had a caller come in via some mailers I sent out the other week and this guy has a fair amount of properties, 20+ I believe he said. We had a plesant conversation discussing a huge number of things including that t...