All Forum Posts by: Jeremy Williams

Hey everyone

Starting/continuing my research on Jacksonville and I keep realizing the deeper I dig, the bigger Jacksonville is getting. This place is huge, largest city by area in the US I believe. I do plan on going there in the next 2 months to check areas out. I just seem to find 150k+ houses right around the corner from 40-60k houses. It looks like these houses are simply bigger (700-1000sq ft larger) and possibly newer. This isn't the norm so much where I currently stay in California so I'm finding it hard to judge good areas from bad ones.

Can anyone offer some knowledge on some neighborhoods in Jacksonville? I'm also interested to know if these bigger houses would actually rent out well since there are some beat up 2300 sq ft+ houses for low prices (but again that goes back to the type of neighborhood I'd guess. This is a big subject so if anyone wants to talk by phone send me a message.

yup, there's a whole wiki page dedicated to the possible housing bubble happening there. If and when it crashes I'd love to own a property there

I'll be starting out in the states, probably not California though. Looking long and hard I can find deals but those quickly get swallowed up by cash buyers. I can do cash but not at California's prices. I'll be starting in Florida, researching there now as I have family there as well.

I appreciate all the info here and do plan to buy something overseas just not sure when. Info here will definitely help though.

What type of number number crunching? the biggerpockets analyzers/calculators are pretty legit

When making making an offer would you go by the the new list date or the original when considering the days on market? I assume the original? (just found hudhomevalue.com which shows the original)

How come the date listed can be so far from the appraisal date? I see some appraisals done and the property has a list date of the same week and other appraisals of October with the list date in mid December. Does the list date start over if it changes to an extended auction?

Just wanted to bump this back up to see if you've came across anything in Florida? I have family there and may start investing in the area.

I'm curious being new to different types of loans/refinancing. My parents have some properties and a HELOC they have no problem letting me use. I know if I used any cash given to me for a down payment I'd have to let it season for 60 days.

With a refinance would I have to hold the property for a certain amount of time before I can refinance? 6 months is what I seem to be reading. Just want to plan this out before because the HELOC payments would be double what a conventional loan would be due to a shorter pay back period. Can't find any great deals that I can really buy with a conventional loan, cash/HELOC looks like the only way right now.

Found globalpropertyguide.com, can't be sure exactly how accurate it is but looks like a good start for research

Does anyone invest outside of the US? Specifically Europe? (I've seen some people do Mexico and south america) I can get my dual citizenship in Germany so I've pondered the idea since I may move there one day.

Haven't found much anywhere on investing in Europe though, so anyone who can share anything would be very helpful.