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All Forum Posts by: Austin Fowler

Austin Fowler has started 45 posts and replied 163 times.

Post: Lines of credit question

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @Jason Wray:

Everett,

Send me an email.


 Hi Jason,

Do you do HELOCs on SFR rentals in AL, AR, IL, MO, MS, OK, TN, TX? Alternatively, do you offer personal and/or business lines of credit?

Yes/no answers fine. DM me to discuss details.

Post: HELOC Loans on Rental Properties (non primary)

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82

I'd also love to find a rental property HELOC lender that operates in at least AL, AR, IL, MO, MS, OK, TN, TX. In my case, 50% LTV would be fine. More is better, but not critical.

Post: Property 8, 100% financed

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82

Dear all,

As promised, I have an appraisal back on one of my properties. For context, note that all of my 33 SFRs were purchased in the time range 9/18/2020 to 3/23/2022, and the claim of some has been that these would be underwater. Well... see below.

21003 Emery Mills, Humble, TX 77338

Purchased 9/18/2020 for $175,000

Appraised at time of purchase at $176,000

Appraised 11/30/2022 at $212,000, an increase of 21%

This is certainly in keeping with my reading of market prices for my properties.

Best,

Austin.

Post: Has anyone ever used a loan against a stock portfolio to finance?

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82

I've used IBKR, just keep your leverage conservative. IBKR limits you to 50%, which is a good thing. Current lending rates:

USD 0 ≤ 100,000 5.33%
100,000 ≤ 1,000,000 4.83%
1,000,000 ≤ 50,000,000 4.58%

Post: Need Equity loan(s) - portfolio - equity loan

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @Dave McIntyre:

Hi Rudy,

In case it can help w/ your funding plans, you might also consider unsecured funding. Funds can be used for down payment or gap funding, as well as 100% funding of a purchase. These can report to your business credit and therefore not show on your personal credit.

Be happy to connect.

Best,

Dave


 Hi Dave, what are the terms and conditions, interest and fees of such funding? 

Post: how to raise capital

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @George S freeman:

thank you Dave i appreciate you replying, i am brand new to real estate , just bought my first house in las vegas, so i'm lo on funds , would like to possibly buy a rental property, i only have 10k to work with


 I've raised capital for down payments to buy rental properties. Happy to discuss.

Post: how do I acquire my next investment property?

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @Aaron Schrader:

Check this loan out: https://www.cmgfi.com/all-in-o...

I've shared about it before, not a lot of people know about it. I'm not a lender, but I'm in real estate and I see the value in this product. It's not for everyone, but it allows you access to the equity in the property without having to open a HELOC up.


 Can such a loan be obtained on an investment property owned free and clear?

Post: Creative Finance REI

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82

I've used creative finance to buy 33 long term SFRs. Happy to discuss the details, feel free to connect.

Post: Property 8, 100% financed

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @Steve K.:

Thanks for clarifying those points that I had recalled you had made on previous threads, and sincere apologies for paraphrasing inaccurately in regards to average hold period. Also thanks for the insight on how your company works. It's clear that REI Nation is a league above most if not all other turnkey providers, which helps explain why your client's operating costs in the first years of ownership are so much lower than a typical turnkey or other investment property, and why your average tenancy is longer. From reading your posts and from your stellar track record and reputation in the industry, I believe your data to be accurate despite not having any firsthand experience with your company. Perhaps your renovations, systems and management are really that good. You've obviously not just doing a lipstick cosmetic flip and outsourcing management like a lot of "turnkey"/ turn and burn providers are. I would never recommend that anyone underwrite a typical turnkey property or other investment property using such low percentages of rent for maintenance and capex, as in my experience most rentals will have operating costs that far exceed the somewhat arbitrary number at the end of that equation, but you've obviously got great data to support your recommendations on how to project cashflows for your properties, so hat's off to you. Thanks for taking the time to chime in.


Would love to get a percentage from you that you consider conservative when estimating vacancy and maintenance costs over the long haul. REI Nation's numbers are exceptional, and Chris' data is vast and comprehensive, but this stark contrast in performance between REI and others is also very apparent in my much smaller sample of 15 houses with REI and 18 not.

Post: Property 8, 100% financed

Austin Fowler
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  • Investor
  • Reseda, CA
  • Posts 192
  • Votes 82
Quote from @V.G Jason:
Quote from @Austin Fowler:
Quote from @V.G Jason:

Outside of all the nonsense in this thread, how have you enjoyed the turnkey process? Which have you used and would recommend? And what's the process like for an OOS?


I have enjoyed the turnkey process with REI Nation. In my case I set a minimum cash flow criteria, and bought properties that met this criteria as they were sent my way. I have found their estimates on achievable rent, vacancies, maintenance, taxes, and insurance, all highly reliable. The recommendations of insurance policies and lenders have been excellent. One of the lenders they recommended got me to 15 conventional mortgages in my own name. I wouldn't have even known this was possible without the recommendation (cross-country mortgage). They also introduced me to a CPA that once owned 250 houses and sold them all to a hedge fund. This CPA got my wife and I set up so that we could claim accelerated depreciation and has generally made owning property in 9 states manageable.

The entire process is talk to them, get recommendations for lenders and get prequalified, set purchase criteria, get presented with properties, secure the properties you want with $2,500, get recommendations for insurance and building inspectors, REI goes through the inspection report and fixes issues, lender orders the appraisal, and assuming the appraisal comes back high enough, complete closing.

I have also bought 12 properties through SDIRA wealth but they are not really turnkey in the sense that they do not do their own in-house property management. This experience has been less good, as the rent estimates of the developer were sometimes too high and unachievable by the third-party property manager. Their third-party property management was also simply not in the same league as REI Nation. Way more vacancy and tenant issues. Still happy overall to have these properties, but I won't be buying any more from them.


So SDIRA wealth & REI. Have you encountered any issues during that process you described from lending to repairs prior to closing with REI? If so, what and how were they mitigated?


Prior to closing? No. REI Nation properties are extensively renovated and delivered to the investor as such and the SDIRA wealth properties were brand new. I've had much more colorful experiences with six properties I bought through a realtor in Chicago that required pretty extensive work, from a new roof, to new furnaces, to AC units, basement, drainage, etc.