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it's expected 900% in certain way that unemployment would raise more than current 3-ish to 5-ish next year and higher chance of recession signaling Fed to post 75 bps rate reduction in 2024, question would be whether ...
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Regarding small scale rental properties or I believe "buy and hold" is the term used around here (sorry, I'm new to all this).I notice that a lot of investors mortgage properties for 10, 20, even 30 years - whatever i...
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Hey everyone!
I’m currently in a really tough position just looking for any advice I can get. I’m 19 years old and currently studying structural engineering in my 2nd year. I hate university. I had this idea that un...
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I recently purchased a home a little further away than I normally do. I used a realtor familiar with the area. I was pleased and decided I would use her to list the home as well. I told her it would be ready in 3 w...
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Hi Folks,I am new to buying real estate for investment purposes, but have held a rental in which I used to live since 2014. With equity I've extracted from the first house I am looking at a 2-bed town house which has ...
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I'm a newbie and still doing research. I'm interested in wholeselling pre-foreclosure however from what I've been reading it's pretty difficult to accomplish. I have a good process for finding pre-Foreclosures but I'm...
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I learned and evolved in a different real estate universe.The rules we were taught and lived by… were the SAME rules that ALL of the REIAs and ALL of the Mentors espoused.1) DONT BUY A PROPERTY THAT HAS LESS THAN 25%...
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I recently found out about a real estate investing mentor group called Lifestyles Unlimited based in Texas and decided to do some research on it. I came across a thread on this forum about the company from 2008 and ve...
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Has anyone on this forum had experience with this company? Paradigm Life claims to use Whole Life Insurance Policies as a financial tool and since i trust this community, I am reaching out to get some referrals.
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I know people have different opinions on paying off rentals but for those who have how do you like it? Did it allow you to buy more properties faster,did you pay for the next property with cash or did you end up takin...