Has anyone cashed out their 401k?  You would have to pay a 10% penalty plus you pay federal/state taxes.  Any comments is it too risky or risky not to do it?

I want to get into REI so that I can diversify out of the stock market. My wife is convinced that investing is a bad idea.Does anyone have an experience talking a spouse into not holding back?

Hi fellow investors. I haven't been on here in a while. I am trying to research different ways to use investor money. I have heard of folks using other investors selfie directed IRA money to invest in realestate and a...

      By way of background, I've bought 8 SFRs in the last 18 months, 4 with conventional loans and the other 4 in cash.  These properties are worth approx. $2.5mil, and I owe less then $700k  on the mortgages, so net...

I wish I had become more involved in real estate 20 years ago...

Hey all - I've been thinking about real estate investments for several months now and learning a lot from this forum. I'm interested in finding a SFH property to cash-flow. I'm too nervous to buy an out-of-state prope...

Hello BP community,
If you could start your real estate investing career in any market in the country which would it be? Assume you have a fair bit of savings (over 100k), are 29 years old and have the flexibility to...

background: currently live in bay area, my wife and i decided to move to Austin early next year. we currently own our house in bay area, and the plan was: find a house in Austin for less than 500k Q1'21, move, and if ...

Hi all,
I am an out of state investor who spent many years in Tallahassee, FL. I know the N Florida area well and have identified Jacksonville as a city with good potential for cash flowing rentals. I have some quest...

Hi, guys and gals, alike. I am new to this industry with learning still my number one agenda before taken most actions. I have seriously been interested in this for a while now and still trying to gain as much knowled...