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Results (38)
Justin Goodin Why YOU Should Invest in Apartments
18 August 2021 | 10 replies

For the average working professional, real estate investing provides the best path to generate additional income and wealth for their family. However, true wealth comes with the ability to leverage time and to stop tr...

Jeff S. If you could meet all your needs and wants with treasuries, why would you risk capital?
22 October 2014 | 23 replies

People lose it all. Huge lottery winnings or the sale of a high tech company. If you had 10,000,000 (or a 100,000,000 for that matter) and could earn 350k a year with 30 yr treasuries, or own all of a neighborhood, a ...

Will Barnard Your definition of "Thinking Big"?
24 January 2011 | 22 replies

This thread is an exercise having to do with goals. It is intended for us to do three things, first to have fun, second to really put our minds to work and think, and third to actually discover what our goals are on a...

Linda A Hawkins Testing Perspective Tenants / Covid
4 August 2021 | 29 replies

I have some questions regarding tightening up my criteria for selecting prospective tenants, and weeding out potential bad eggs.
Does anybody have any thoughts on hiring a professional to administer a polygraph test...

Raj Goel Househacking vs buying rental properties?
25 January 2024 | 45 replies

I am trying to decide whether househacking makes sense here if my goal is to generate $6K/month passive income asap.
I live in bay area California. I have the opportunity to build two ADUs on my primary residence. Th...

Julie Marquez Unhealthy Frugality Disease
6 January 2017 | 108 replies

Blame it on the holidays, consumerism season, or the purchase of my latest rehab project, but I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with spending money. I have this unhealthy relationship with healthy money m...

Owen Hogarth Here we go
8 September 2009 | 96 replies

I don't quite understand the american ideal sometimes; now here i go. i'm starting this because it was request, i understand we all come from different places and look at the same situations differently but please no ...

Dennis Maynard Pay of debt or Buy a Cash Flow Property? Question of the Week.
4 October 2021 | 55 replies

Hey Everybody,Many people face this challenge.  Should you pay off debt such as a car, credit card, or student loans first?  Or should you take the same money and buy a cash flow income property?  What would you do an...

Jeff Wells CONTRACTOR PUT A B.S. LIEN ON OUR PROPERTY, NEED ADVICE.
29 October 2019 | 32 replies

Ok, here's the story. We are rehabbing out of state. This has proven to be extremely difficult and stressful. We hired a contractor to do a job for $1300. He did the job, we paid him, but there was much more that n...

Jacob Casarez Using real estate to escape the rat race?
24 August 2015 | 33 replies

I just enrolled in my companie's 403B tax deferered retirement "match" program. I don't plan to wait that long to retire. I am serious about using real estate as a tool to escape the life of being a paid slave. I just...