Financial Advice

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  • aslip0

    Real estate has proven to be pretty solid for me. Ultimately turned into a side biz since last fall. Ultimate goal is to have plenty of income properties to fuel more biz development & passive income. But yes, diversification is key.

    • Great if you got in a few years ago, testing the top now in many markets, which should change when for sale products start againformed
    • (and the over supply of rentals pushes rent rates down)formed
    • diversification isn't key, it's a way to keep slow growth even slowermonospaced
    • It's a way to balance the portfolio, if you don't, then you get killed when a market segment goes done. It's key for the long term.formed
    • yes, it balances out all your earnings with losses, it's a way to not really go anywheremonospaced
    • as soon as I started focusing, I started making real moneymonospaced
    • Mono, not everyone has the time or know how to invest in individual stocks. Most people just want to invest and forget2002
    • What type of investing are you doing? Aside from you just holding on to AAPL?2002
    • AAPL is my smallest holding. Most of my investing is in mutual funds. International growth, Health & sciences, etc. i also have no time for regular investingmonospaced
    • my T.Rowe Price health mutual fund has returned 300% in 10 years.monospaced
    • Mono - you make no sense, you criticize diversification, but then you own diverse MUTUAL funds!formed
    • a mutual fund is somewhat diverse, but extremely focused in a single area, such as health, tech, international growth, etcmonospaced

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