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Alright, so it's been another month and I would like to chat a bit about the portfolio I prepared back in the middle of March.
This was two months ago, I felt pretty strongly that the market had bottomed out or was v...
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Coming across this website and the Financial Independence subreddit, I've gotten an itch to increase my rental real estate portfolio to start generating residual income. My wife and I sat down together to look at our...
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I bought my first triplex a year ago.
I'm ready to buy another rental but deciding between investing more into the stock market or acquiring a single family real estate asset.
What are some recommendations for inves...
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Hey Folks,Listening to GRE I heard a lot about how bad traditional investments and retirement plans are. I am trying to put together some concrete and quantifiable numbers that show this- but its not my area of exper...
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Hi Everyone,Until finding BP maybe 4 months ago, I had been focused primarily on my corporate 401k, IRA, and private stocks in my Robinhood account. Last month I closed on my first property (3/2 condo where my roommat...
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Hi all! My wife and I are trying to get creative about scraping every penny together that we can. When evaluating our assets we noticed that the largest untapped potential is in a sizable stock/bond portfolio that is ...
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Hi BP,I've invested into the stock market ever since I started working back in 2011. Needless to say the markets have done pretty well over the long term to today. However the more I think about stocks, while it is a ...
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Hello, Has anyone used their stock portfolio as collateral without a W2? Looking for lenders who will do this for North Carolina.
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Hey BPers, I am currently working with a new money manager and they offer lines of credit against your current portfolio at LIBOR + 125 bps (overnight LIBOR). Which seems like fantastic for purchasing capabilities....
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Hello! Newbie here looking for advice:While I saved up cash for real estate, I didn't want the money just sitting in a .05% interest rate savings account, so I moved it to a brokerage account and invested in relative...