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Fresh out of college, rent for a year or buy cheap?
I'm just finishing my master's in electrical engineering. I'll start my first job making $80,000 a year + 18% retirement in June. After putting in the minimum to get all the matching from my employer (4%) I'd like to ...
Christopher Haile
I need your help with VA IRRRL Lenders!
Hello BP! I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. I currently have a VA loan on my primary residence at 3.75%. After getting several advertisements in the mail to refinance the loan with a VA IRRRL I decided to sta...
Jeff S.
New retirement withdrawal rule could backfire in costly way
I know all you youngsters think you won't get older but it happens. So what you say.For those of you that are socking money away in tax deferred accounts planning on taking it out in old age. If you have a lot and you...
Zackary Thomas
Whole Life Insurance
I am currently 20 years old and have been doing a lot of research in regard to Whole Life insurance with the main idea of using it as a savings vehicle and having access to the cash value I can use as a future down pa...
Kegan Brenner
Smart to pay down the mortgage sooner with low interest rate?!
Hello all, I am new to the group and wanted to start by asking a question on our business office building. My wife and I own a dental practice and purchased our building. Purchase price was $2M and we financed $1.7M @...
Terry Hoefer
fix/flip or hold/rent?
With the current market, tight margins and competition, I'm thinking about a modest move-in ready SFH in a good neighborhood. We'd have to put no money into rehab, could pay cash, and any possible vacant stretches wou...
Michael Ealy
What Stops You from Thinking BIG?
I feel sorry for a lot of BP'ers.I see the same questions. I see the same struggles. I can see the same small thinking.And I can see that a lot of newbie investors are doing real estate investing the hard way...the sl...
Charles Kappe
Recommendations For Financing Strategies
I was just looking for some tips or different Financing strategies that other members here have used. I am on the market for my first property to get my feet wet in the real estate investing world. I am working with a...
Andrey Rudenko
Housing crisis as incomes do not catch up with home prices
Housing prices, like prices of anything else are driven by the overall supply and demand. The supply is driven by the available inventory while the demand has many input factors in it. Here we will try to see what may...
Alex Santini
My Financial Plan
It's likely I conceived the most horrendous financial plan many of you have seen in a long time, so if anyone would like to save me from my ignorance I would be more than indebted to you. In short I would like to take...