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And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

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Hello again, my friends, and welcome to another episode of Ask Marco,

where I answer your investing related questions.

My question today comes from Amir and Amir says, hello, I just finished listening to all

your podcast episodes from back in 2014 up to the very last one that was posted last week.

The contents were so great and educational.

I really appreciate it.

I can't wait to have my first property with you guys.

Although I am not there yet and I need to save some capital,

I want to plan my strategies and

pave my way to that goal. I have some questions. Two most important questions are

as follows. Number one I was wondering if it's better to partner with one or two of my friends or my brothers to purchase the first property.

In that case, we can raise $20,000 much faster than what I would need to be able to save.

If that is a good idea, how does the mortgage work?

Okay, so there's actually two questions in this first question,

and he does have a second question, which I will try to get to here based on time.

So what he's really asking here is if it's better to partner with his friends or his family.

Ultimately that's what he's asking. And the only reason he'd be asking

this question from what I can tell is because it would allow him to raise that initial capital

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