James Krahula
Stock Market While Saving For Down Payment?
I am currently saving for my first down payment on a buy and hold real estate property. I'm using Barclays with their really high 1.5% APY savings account. A lot of people will argue that if you are saving for a down ...
Timothy W.
Prepping for Cap and Trade effects
Alright,
As wrong as it is, it's a reality. No use pissing and moaning - we're going to have to deal with it. What exactly does it mean for us and what exactly are we going to have to do? I've m...
Landon Elscott
I lost $22,000 selling a sports car, but improved my net worth $27,500 - my first deal!
After writing this, I now realize it's pretty long, so I put the main focus and details of the deal in bold and the rest of the fluff in italics.Prior to successfully completing my first real estate deal, one of the t...
Mel Hignell
Found adult videos shot in—and outside—our Portland Airbnb
As the title says. A friend of ours found a gif of a woman bouncing on one of our beds with our very particular artwork in the background. Through this we were able to do an image search and found porn videos shot in ...
Jonathan C.
70,000 Mail Pieces in 2014; What Did I Get For It?
Here are my results after about $67K worth of direct mail cost in 2014. It would be awesome is we could have everyone who has sent more than, say, 5,000 mail pieces, to post their REAL WORLD results as well. Collect...
Evan T. Ong
I'm really uncomfortable with how my future will turn out.
After reading Dan Sheek's book, First to a Million, I've learned so much about personal finance and I'm thinking about my future life decisions (I'm 15 as of this post). But my parents are disputing the options that I...
Patrick Madigan
Help analyzing 32-unit deal in Fayetteville, NC
I just noticed this 32-unit property in Fayetteville, NC listed on the Triangle MLS a few days ago. This scale property doesn't get listed in our MLS too frequently, so I'm naturally excited to see if it's much of a d...
David S.
Odd scenario; Would you consider me as a tenant?
Hi guys, I find myself in a unique predicament and need advice. Here’s the situation:My wife and I currently have two homes, one is our primary, one a rental. Both homes were originally on one parcel which we’ve been ...
Christy Miller
1st Time landlord - tenant from hell
I’m a newbie landlord in Cal and have already served the 3 day notice twice with my very first tenant, I’m still in the early stage of this painful eviction process.Tenant claimed heater broke down the second day afte...
Roy Williams
Help, Property worth less than half of LOC
Hello, I am new to the board need some advice. I purchased a dozen rental properties over the past 3 years during the times of easy money.
Once of my purchased was a double that I paid cash for. $29k purchase price....