Actually, not that much. 1 in san diego. 2 elsewhere in CA. I’m trying to get more here in sd. I’m pretty new to this locally.. Hoping for more in SD. I have lived around in CarmelV, and for while was looking at picking up townhome when the numbers looked like they were going to fall lower. There was a period of time i was looking at many townhomes in CarmelV and condos. Crest, Andulucia, Heights (apartment convert), Carmel Pointe (apartment convert), Pell Place (huge new buyer getting screwed ), Palmero,etc,etc,etc. It didn’t work out (well, hasn’t yet). I’m trying to juggle around resources anticipating hopefully soon purchases. Also, I’m trying to keep my thumb on what the equity markets are doing. Don’t want to miss any sort of rebound there either.
My goal starting beginning of the year was to move partly out of the equity markets for some lower/yet more predictable returns, just in the thing hit the fan… It sure looked like it was about Feb/March months ago in the stock market…Not so much right now…My regret was not being more agressive earlier.
Really, I’m small potatoes…So try to learn from bigger potatoes…[/quote]
Ah…thanks for answering. I edited it afterwards to remove that. I didn’t want to get too nosey asking about how many rental properties you own. Some people are sensitive with that kind of stuff.
I think no matter if you’re “small potatoes or big potatoes” you can never stop learning in this stuff. Things are constantly changing, laws are constantly changing so no matter how much time you spend with it things can always change.
My philosophy is you can’t know too much about any given subject. 🙂
I agree with you about the stock market. I don’t do too much in the stock market at all besides my kids custodial account I set up for them for their college fund. I dabble a bit in that but I really thought the market would have tanked more with all the problems in Europe and the US economy being so weak.
But I guess there is no where else to really put your money to make any money. Money chasing more money in the markets so it’s at near a 4 year high.
I think the key is not necessarily to try to hit “home runs” each time now. But to get up at bat and not swing out each time.
At this stage of my life I’m not even swinging for home runs. Having kids really tempers your risk levels. LOL. Or at least it does with me.
