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What is your FI (Financial Independence) number?
How to find your FI number: Determine your annual spending in retirement, yes, you need to have a budget! Multiple the above number by 25. Example, if you require $60,...
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As I'm researching and reading and google searching and listening... I'm learning.I just wanted to use this space to note things I learn as I learn them. I have absorb so much in the past month. Not looking for a lo...
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I bought most of my rentals at the bottom of the market or near bottom, other than 2 of them that I had to buy 1.5 years ago due to 1031 exchange that I needed to do for a long list of reasons.I have capital to deploy...
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The buzz around the country right now is the shifting economy and that is no different in the real estate sector. With the Fed raising the overnight interest rates and implementing Quantitative Tightening (QT) to comb...
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Hello everyone,
I'm an architecture student that's looking to purchase her first property. I'm an international student at FIU and live in North Miami, Florida. My plan is to get a single family home with an efficie...
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Got an offer accepted on a property, home inspection showed some pretty big concerns, but my realtor says I can’t negotiate further since the seller is selling AS IS? Is this right? If so any other thoughts/options ve...
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Hi! I just got preapproved from the lender today for my first rental property! I haven't bought a house since my primary residence in 2007, so this financing part is new to me. It seems like traditional lending is ...
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This is such a basic question, but I don't quite understand the basics of it.
If my income increases by 3.5% per year (that's my current raise per year per our contract) and inflation has been between 3-5% pe...
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Regardless of what the talking heads are saying, the U.S. is in a recession. I haven't seen a May this soft since the financial crisis. The calendars for our properties are filling up decently, but it is taking daily...
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Posting this duplex that I found here in the heart of Eastern Michigan, I've been frequently trying to run numbers on duplexes and investment property listings as an up and coming agent and investor to try and gain wh...