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Nadine O. Where would you move to start building your real estate empire?
19 October 2022 | 248 replies
No state income tax, grass to tend, no ice/snow, humidity/excessive rain, storms with names, floods, earthquakes but with reasonable to great property tax rates and less LL-tenant regulation. 
Alicia Marks QOTW: How long did it take you to purchase your first investment?
22 August 2022 | 135 replies
After many years and many properties, we've been through a series of adventures (and misadventures) worthy of a Hollywood script--including flooded rentals, earthquake-caused property condemnation, unexpectedly canceled contracts, and even having to navigate a felony-level crime committed at a property we had under contract...but those are stories for another day...Now, to answer your question: I spent about 1 hour with my agent on a Monday going over my goals and learning about his process...that Thursday, we spent about 8 hours looking at properties and making our offer, and we were under contract that night...so, it was a fast-paced process, and much quicker than I had expected (but that had more to do with the breakneck pace of my local market than anything). 
Matt Cramer Can Rich Dad Poor Dad beat up Dave Ramsey?
26 December 2016 | 151 replies
For instance, you or your love ones get diagnosed with cancer or serious illness, become disabled and need 24hr care, get in a car wreck and get sued, the bank closes your lines of credit (yeah I already said this but this really made me mad with a 780 credit score), the market crashes, you get divorced, a riot or hurricane or earth quake or flood wipes out or damages most your properties, and the list goes on and on.
Grant Stuard How are people scaling so fast?
28 February 2024 | 130 replies
CA went through a deep dive after the loma Preita earthquake and the first War in the mid east and things got really bad.. they had 250 different properties  student housing senior  MHP ( land development that I ran) and of course apartments galore and they could not sustain and it all got liquidated and I found myself out of a job..
Branden Yang Does anyone know which states to invest?
25 June 2022 | 10 replies
This question is literally asked weekly.Start with no state income tax, cheap insurance, low property taxes, tile roofs, stucco siding, and low maintenance yards, landlord friendly and no snow/hurricanes/hail/major earthquakes, that should narrow it down for you. 
Kevin Lefeuvre What will be the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on real estate?
10 November 2021 | 686 replies
I would have guessed it was a massive earthquake that might make that stuff useful living here, but if it's a virus, so be it.
Seb Ko Skyrocketing insurance costs!?
12 November 2023 | 14 replies
That big earthquake in San Francisco didn't help either.
Joe S. What are the real perks of buying RE internationally?
27 October 2023 | 56 replies
As a young man trying to survive in America, the Army took me all across America, Haiti, Egypt, Kuwait, etc... these days I travel for leisure in and out of country.
Kyla Nicole Nickerson Jones Help! How much should invest in an inherited fixer upper?
20 September 2022 | 13 replies
Are they retro fitted for earth quakes?
Alex Owens Stock market correction, BitCoin collapse, and real estate
26 July 2021 | 71 replies
In case of real estate, you are one big earthquake (I'm from California :-D ), or hurricane, or flooding away from being wiped out.