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Hello everyone, I am under contract for a HUD property and the appraisal came back as C-5 (not financeable). Since this is a HUD property they won't do any repairs. Does anyone have any advice for me please.. getting ...
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Hi everyone!Our goals are to 1. create non-401k retirement cash flow and 2. reduce our dependency on our wage jobs over time. We think the right way forward for us is to buy and hold cash-flow-positive rentals, (SFR...
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Hi Everyone
I'm 20 yrs old and just finished attending my first REI seminar today and plan to start investing ASAP. Because it was a cheap basics seminar, A LOT of info was thrown at me. Among all the info, the instr...
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It seems like the worse the neighborhood, the more the rental profit.
For example, in a bad neighborhood, I can buy a $45,000 house that rents for ~$850/month.
In a good neighborhood, I can buy a $100,000 house that ...
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well this morning i bought my first set of stocks since 1997 or so then got wiped out in the dot com bubble LOLI am up 142.00 dollars for the day.. when i look at all these companies trading at 52 weeks lows and 1.3...
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I am currently looking for a property to update. I've been looking at alot of downtown properties, but I dont' know where to get information on them. Alot of them look abandoned and need alot of cosmetic work. But I t...
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My wife's employer offers what seems a good retirement plant. If she contributes to her 401k/Roth IRA 3% of her basic salary, the employer will contribute the same 3%, plus an additional 1% of her basic pay. For examp...
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I read Aftershock, the latest edition, by the brothers Wiedemer. It was fairly dark, much about our economy being a multi-bubble economy, the weakness in housing for various reasons (including the 50% or so cash tr...
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Perhaps we will find out in the next couple of days one way or another if this will escalate further, what if Russia does invade Ukraine and the U.S. gets involved? Without going too deep, I am seeing speculation on a...
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