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With the increased Standard Deduction for 2018 I'm not sure if I should work towards retiring my home's mortgage, or one of my rental properties. The difference between interest rates is at most 1%. With the tax chang...
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Hi BP members - we are searching for a place to retire and invest in northern Italy. We ruled out big cities such as Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice etc. even though we absolutely love to visit, but we are planning to ...
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Coming on here because our real estate agent nor local CPA can confirm. We'd like to purchase a home using my grandmother's (retired for over 10 years) funds from her retirement brokerage and brokerage account for a d...
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.My head is swimming for the next steps in purchasing an investment property.I have sufficient funds in our low cost of living area (Northern Michigan) to finance from retireme...
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I've been looking into this company for a while now. Im curious to know if anyone has gotten any turnkey rentals from them and if so, how was the overall experience? Did the properties perform like you'd expected? Als...
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For people in this space, or in RE investing in general..how would you answer this question...A couple wants to retire in 5 years, they would like to use short term rentals to supply them with 60-80k a year to live on...
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Hi everyone, I am wondering what everyone thinks of this scenerio. One is near retirement has around 200k cash waiting to be invested and the ability to take out a mortgage up to 1M. What would you do with respect to ...
Hi folks,I'm trying to help locate an appropriate financial planning/analyst resource. Someone with experience analyzing and making recommendations re: existing investment property portfolio... and making adjustments/...
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Hello Bigger Pockets community,I joined BP this summer after I graduated college, and have been pretty silent on the forums as I have been studying for the CPA exam, listening to BP podcasts, and moving to the ever ex...
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