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Old 08-05-2015, 06:03 AM
 
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Mathjak I need your opinion. Reading your posts, I gather you amassed your wealth from real estate rentals and investing.

If you had a 1 bd rm condo in a prime area (i.e. Dumbo), would you sell it, and take the profits and invest in equities. Or keep it and rent it out, with minimal profit from rents, but knowing the unit will continue to increase in RE value over time?
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Old 08-05-2015, 06:32 AM
 
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Mathjak I need your opinion. Reading your posts, I gather you amassed your wealth from real estate rentals and investing.

If you had a 1 bd rm condo in a prime area (i.e. Dumbo), would you sell it, and take the profits and invest in equities. Or keep it and rent it out, with minimal profit from rents, but knowing the unit will continue to increase in RE value over time?
85dumbo,

If you rent it out, where would you live?
(I certainly would stay out of the equity markets until this correction bottoms out and I am talking long-term correction.)
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Old 08-05-2015, 07:01 AM
 
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85dumbo,

If you rent it out, where would you live?
(I certainly would stay out of the equity markets until this correction bottoms out and I am talking long-term correction.)
I moved to the suburbs already.
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Old 08-05-2015, 07:07 AM
 
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Mathjak I need your opinion. Reading your posts, I gather you amassed your wealth from real estate rentals and investing.

If you had a 1 bd rm condo in a prime area (i.e. Dumbo), would you sell it, and take the profits and invest in equities. Or keep it and rent it out, with minimal profit from rents, but knowing the unit will continue to increase in RE value over time?
In retirement our goal is to own no investment real estate.

We have been liquidating everything we could the last 15 years.

I only want passive investments now and dealing with tenants on any scale is not passive.
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Old 08-12-2015, 11:22 AM
 
Location: new yawk zoo
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congrats on the retirement.....sinking in yet?
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Old 08-12-2015, 12:20 PM
 
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I assume you make enough money to enjoy your retirement in NYC ? I find that hard to believe ....but look into Ecuador if all else fails.
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Old 08-12-2015, 02:48 PM
 
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We live in bayside not manhattan and hopefully have enough to last a lifetime and then some.
It is more the cost of medical and long term care insurance then the cost of living in queens that gives us the biggest budget killer
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Old 08-12-2015, 04:13 PM
 
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So now you old, nobody can touch you! You can be grumpy old man, screem on people, pee on the street - enjoy life, no borders anymore!
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Old 08-12-2015, 06:20 PM
 
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Nah, my wife would never let me have fun like that.
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Old 08-12-2015, 07:01 PM
 
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Mathjak I need your opinion. Reading your posts, I gather you amassed your wealth from real estate rentals and investing.

If you had a 1 bd rm condo in a prime area (i.e. Dumbo), would you sell it, and take the profits and invest in equities. Or keep it and rent it out, with minimal profit from rents, but knowing the unit will continue to increase in RE value over time?
List it in AirBnB.
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