All Forum Posts by: Cara Lonsdale

The two are separate are separate issues, but yes.  Lenders can use established rental income to help you qualify for the property.  Typically that is about 75% of the income, although they have a process for coming to that figure.

Regarding down payment, usually you can find a lender who will do 20% down on a 1-4 unit for your first 4 properties.  Once you have 4 loans out there, then the lender usually will require 25% down for properties 5-10.

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I have.  I meet wholesalers all the time when I go to trustee sales.  They will send me properties as they come in, and usually I just browse through the email before deleting.  Every once and a while, it will be something that meets the criteria of one of my investors.  So, I will present it.

I have had to add my commission on top of the price, to be paid by the investor Buyer, bu sometimes, the wholesaler will split it.  It just depends on the deal, and what room they have on the price.

Wholesalers can be an asset, especially if you have investors looking for off market deals.  You will have to sift through alot of garbage, and irrelevant deals to find a gem, but it will be worth the very little effort to establish a relationship with them.

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What site is it?  Usually Zillow connects to auction.com, which is free. (at least that is the site for foreclosures in AZ).

I can't speak to the exact site, but I do know that here in AZ, many trustee sales are facilitated through a company called auction.com.  If you go to zillow to serach these properties, it will give a link to auction.com where you can look at title reports, and sales details.

You are going to be hard pressed to find any lender who will give you an investment loan for under 20% down.

Have you considered house-hacking a 1-4 unit with your VA? If you buy a 4-plex with your VA (for example), live in 1 unit, and rent out the other 3. That would be totally doable.

Plus, if the other units are already rented, the lender will be able to use up to 75% of the rental income to help you qualify for the purchase.

Hope that helps.

Welcome Evard, and Thank You for your service.  Truly.

As a vet, you have access to some of the best resources around for clients.  The vet groups would be a great networking opportunity to mingle with homeowners being transferred out and needing to sell, or transferred in, and needing to buy.  I would start there.

This really depends on how you have each of these accounts and LLCs structured. The whole idea of establishing an LLC is to protect. So, it will be important that you don't co-mingle funds from one account the another improperly. I would contact the attorney that set up your LLCs and ask them.

If you are talking about syndication, you are also going to have to account for any SEC issues, and getting set up for that.  You mentioned accredited investors, and you are right.  There is a whole process for qualifying people, taking funds, where the funds can be held, who can access them, etc.

Glad to hear you are going to an attorney.  This will cost you thousands of $$ to set up to do it right.

You are over complicating it.  Contact a hard money lender and get some terms.  You will pay a higher interest rate, and most likely it will be an interest only, but that is a cost of doing business.  A local hard money lender will be your best bet as it will probably not cost you as many points as a national hard money lender.

What's nice about the hard money lender is that they will typically be asset based, and not look at your credit or income. So, that will be good for giving you flexibility to do your HELOC and other things without fear of running into DTI ratio issues, or seasoned funds issues.