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And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

Hello my friends and welcome to another episode. Now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

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

So today we have an interesting question from Lindsay,

and Lindsay asks, should I pay off my rentals?

And I assume that is for cash flow purposes.

So Lindsay writes in and says, hi Marco first off I really enjoy your podcast and thank you for providing

such great content.

You're very welcome. My question is I currently have three duplexes, a

quadplex and I am closing on another duplex next week. I do not like to have a lot

of debt and my end goal is to gain enough passive income to be able to not have a typical 9 to 5 job.

That's a great goal.

If I have the funds to pay off the rentals, would you advise that?

I have funds in the stock market, but I am not very risky

and it makes more sense to me to pay everything off.

I also have been taught that diversification is key, i.e. stock market and rentals.

What are your thoughts? Thank you, Lindsay.

Lindsay, thanks for the question. These are good questions. You have a couple of them in here. So let me start

off by saying that I don't know your age, I don't know your income goals, and I also don't know

your investment time frame. So I need to make a few assumptions and generalize a little bit here.

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