 sell into stock market (by jason [PA]) Feb 24, 2026 9:17 AM
 sell into stock market (by Just Tim [AR]) Feb 24, 2026 9:40 AM
sell into stock market (by JS [CA]) Feb 24, 2026 10:15 AM
sell into stock market (by PG [SC]) Feb 24, 2026 12:25 PM
sell into stock market (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Feb 24, 2026 7:23 PM
sell into stock market (by Pmh [TX]) Feb 25, 2026 1:25 PM
sell into stock market (by WMH [NC]) Feb 25, 2026 3:36 PM
sell into stock market (by TonyT [PA]) Feb 25, 2026 4:50 PM
sell into stock market (by GKARL [PA]) Feb 25, 2026 5:35 PM
sell into stock market (by Pmh [TX]) Mar 3, 2026 2:23 PM
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sell into stock market (by jason [PA]) Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 9:17 AM
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Do you ever wionder about selling it all and putting the money in mutual funds or stock investments? My friend earned 24% in the stock market with average investments last year. That would be several hundred thousand dollars per year versus what I make collecting rents and appreciation. Its not even close
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sell into stock market (by Just Tim [AR]) Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 9:40 AM
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Yes, but 24% is an anomaly, not the norm.
There will be some years that the market goes down 24%. You have to be prepared for those years too.
Study the 4% rule and similar rules (guardrails, ratcheting, etc) before you do this.
Make sure you have your "enough" to survive the volatility before you give up your steady cash flow from rentals.
To me, this is a good alternative for an ender strategy. I do not want to be dealing with rentals when I am 75.
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sell into stock market (by JS [CA]) Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 10:15 AM
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I’ve always done both. My returns from the market is what originally made my MF purchases possible. If it was not for the tax liability I would diversify more out of real estate. Originally my investments were more stocks. Now they are more mixed with stocks , etfs, mutual funds and income investments. Longer term returns for me have been 12.9% in my retirement account. Recently the returns have been high but that also worries me as this is a really old bull market.
The consideration when I originally entered into real estate was the income component. I could buy a large investment with a smaller down payment but still have some income. That income is tax advantaged. I could support a family with the income while still growing.
Now that this income is less important and the portfolio has grown I would like to diversify more and work a little less. --162.204.xxx.xxx |
sell into stock market (by PG [SC]) Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 12:25 PM
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Ask your friend what his return was in year 2022 - Then ask your friend his return for the last 10 years and then compare your friends 10 year return to the SP500. --172.74.xxx.xxx |
sell into stock market (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 7:23 PM
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you could do a 721 exchange as long as you stay in real estate. Taxes can hurt you badly, and the government is count on you chasing what is hot last year.
The other difference is real estate can be leveraged where stocks typically are not. So that 2% increase leveraged at 20% LTV is the same as a typical year in the stock market --173.188.xx.xxx |
sell into stock market (by Pmh [TX]) Posted on: Feb 25, 2026 1:25 PM
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as PG says. it goes up & down. we are years into a bull market. if you buy now you are buying at the highs. when Dow hit 50k I started selling to take the gains since I bought in 2008 when mkt dropped to 7k. you should look at long term and not what your friend made last year. actually most of us made more than that but again, it is a blip. I bought houses in 2008 after the crash, which many of us saw was going to happen. the appreciation is not realized until sold, but they are our piggy bank to sell when rates go down. the nets we did use to buy into funds but right now just putting into cds & will cash them out to buy stocks again when prices are more reasonable --146.75.xxx.xxx |
sell into stock market (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: Feb 25, 2026 3:36 PM
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We've lost so much money in the stock market multiple times it's just not fun or funny :( and the problem is, we have no CONTROL over the gain or loss. We don't understand the back end enough to know WHEN or WHY something happens.
At least we semi-understand real estate. --73.216.xxx.xxx |
sell into stock market (by TonyT [PA]) Posted on: Feb 25, 2026 4:50 PM
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R/E beats the stock market over the long term; my R/E returns did. But there's some work in R/E. You may want to sell half and split your investments.
The main thing I realized after selling all of my R/E is that the stock market will take 2 steps forward and one back; it's unnerving. R/E is a steady, steady, wonderful income stream.
But if you ever tire of R/E, an S&P500 ETF will be the closest return to R/E in my opinion. --74.99.xxx.x |
sell into stock market (by GKARL [PA]) Posted on: Feb 25, 2026 5:35 PM
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I have a few balanced funds to keep my toe in the financial waters so to speak but I prefer predictable things like CDs, HYSA accounts and real estate. A business that never distributes cash doesn't hold an allure for me. Would you invest in your local corner store with the expectation of selling it later for more but never getting a cash payout in the interim? I wouldn't. That's the reason I buy cash flowing real estate. That pays the bills now. The future value is a function of psychology and inflation and neither of those are predictable. Psychology and perception itself can turn on a dime erasing value which is my hesitation when it comes to stocks. I'm more interested in preservation rather than maximum yield at this point. --23.28.xx.xx |
sell into stock market (by Pmh [TX]) Posted on: Mar 3, 2026 2:23 PM
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sorry WMH you have lost so much in the mkt. were you day trading (?) --146.75.xxx.xxx |
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