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His condo lost $100K in value. Instead of selling, he turned it into a rental. A decade later, he walked away with a $290K gain. In 2007, Vaibhav Puranik bought a Los Angeles condo for $550,000. By 2011, it was worth just $450,000. With a baby daughter and a house with a yard on his mind, he had a decision to make. His agent asked how much cash he had. The answer? $80,000. Enough to buy a house and keep the condo as a rental. So that is exactly what he did. He went on to buy single-family rentals in Dallas-Fort Worth before moving into multifamily syndications. When buying one house at a time felt too slow, he put $100,000 into an apartment syndication and negotiated a condition that earned him a general partner seat. About 10 years after buying that original condo, he sold it for $840,000. Today, his portfolio includes three single-family rentals and general partner stakes in 40+ apartment units. Sometimes, your biggest real estate win starts with the property everyone else would tell you to sell. 👉 Read the full story at bit.ly/47yNik1.

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He was making 500 to 600 cold calls a day. Between restaurant shifts. Andres was waiting tables and playing jazz when a mortgage rate hike priced him and his wife out of buying a home. So he stopped waiting for the market to fix itself. He started calling every Zillow listing he could find. His first deal, a wholesale assignment, took nine months and nearly broke him before it paid off. The next one took nine more months of rejection, 200 to 300 calls a day, and getting fired from the restaurant twice for taking seller calls mid-shift. Then he found co-living, renting properties out room by room, and rebuilt his entire business around it. Now he owns 10 properties, manages four more, and runs 107 co-living rooms. That’s about $27,000 a month in gross cash flow, and he takes home $12,000 to $14,000 of it. Along the way, he’s GC’d 29 co-living conversions for other investors. Not bad for a guy who got priced out of buying a home. 👇 Read the full story at bit.ly/47jcNpv. Subscribe to the Investor Brief newsletter to get stories like this in your inbox every week: biggerpockets.com/newsletter

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89% of Boomers believe younger workers should pay higher taxes so their Social Security checks don't get cut. The generation that had arguably the greatest economic timing in modern history, holding 50% of the nation's wealth despite making up only 20% of the population, wants current workers to pick up the tab. Meanwhile, younger Americans are facing record home prices and high rents, and paying into a system that might not pay them back in full. Taxing the generations with the least to protect the generation with the most isn’t a good solution. What's your take on this? Let's talk below.

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