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All Forum Posts by: Saul G.

Saul G. has started 4 posts and replied 16 times.

Post: What happens to a local market after a hurricane??

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4
Apart from a lot of insurance claims.. how does price react short term?

Post: Due Diligence SFR Question

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4

Hello, I have read a few bogs here on DD but they tend to focus more on physical inspection and performance numbers, I would love to get some info on the legal portion for SFRs, the 2 obvious things are Tax Liens and Code Violations, but what else can make a good deal bad? What do HMLs normally ask for? If you can list the main things that you do in this area in chronological order that would be awesome.

Thanks

Post: Funding For Flipping

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4
Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:

@Saul G.  good questions.  as I don't need to use credit cards for my business ventures it does not come into my equation I use them to build up Points so I can take fabulous vacations for free .. that's what credit cards are to me personally   :)  good luck with it all.

hate to see someone go out and ring up 6 figures in credit card debt then buy a bummer and be stuck with the debt they can never repay... seems risky. But then again many small business are started on Cards.. so I have no problem with it personally for others .. as long as they understand the risk..

Its no differernt in my mind than paying 40k for a guru course only to figure out your not cut out for real estate and never really do any deals... here you can go into massive credit card debt only to find out RE is not all that its cracked up to be

 Oh yea definitely, I'm assuming the individual has already made up his head, has a solid plan, and it's just pure execution.

Now that you mention points, I wonder what type of rebate, sign up bonus would some of these cards have? 2 years worth of those?

Post: Funding For Flipping

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4
Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:

@Joe Harris  once you pull all your cash out of your credit cards your fico will go down to the low 600's

 And once you put it back in it will go up again, in fact it could potentially be stronger than before. For a buy and hold is impossible since you can't refi, but for a quick flip it could be an option for some people, imagine you don't qualify conv, and hard money makes the deal not a deal, what do you do then? 

If there is a system in place to manage all these trade lines and the plan is to capital gain for 2 years and you plan ahead to be creditless in the meantime, then it could certainly be an option, especially to enter the game.

My concern is how exactly are they doing this because it is assumed  that the only way to pull cash from credit cards is cash advanced, and there is no 0% intro on cash advanced, so how do they make this cash available? I have a feeling they might be violating the issuer TC's, or at least pushing it too far to the limit. 

Post: Funding For Flipping

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4
Originally posted by @Joe Kalis:
Originally posted by @Saul G.:

You can't, it's not the same as a bank line of credit you're referencing. 

 So how do you make cash available out of credit cards and get around the cash advanced fee?

Post: Funding For Flipping

Saul G.Posted
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 21
  • Votes 4
Originally posted by @Joe Kalis:
Originally posted by @David Briley:

@Joe Kalis, being on BP will at least give you a little more creditability in my eyes, but could you please feel free to address the concerns that @Jay Hinrichs and I brought up.  

Also, got any BP members who've used your service?

 Hey David! Appreciate the confidence, sorry for the delay responding again. :-( It is what certainly people have said it is...unsecured credit by way of credit cards from major banks. Tammy Parsons did a pretty exhaustive explanation of what the program is a few comments up. 

The power behind using this service vs. doing it yourself (which you certainly could) is that there's definitely an art to applying in the right way to maximize the amount of credit you can get. If the average consumer applied for credit, they'd start getting denied after 3-4 inquiries. There's a strategic approach to apply for the right programs from the right banks in the right order that allows us to get more credit than a consumer could on their own. Is the difference worth the fee? That's for everyone to decide on their own...although you'll certainly hear the negative opinions the most on public forums like this. 

I am a client, as well, and was able to acquire $120K in credit that was then liquidated to cash, and the overall fee as a percentage was much lower than I could have gotten elsewhere. We were able to use the funds to run our business for 6 months, not just to acquire properties like traditional hard money loans/private funds (flexible).

As far as other BP members who are clients...we don't crosscheck them, and we also can't divulge who our clients are publicly, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. You can see a few of them have spoken up for themselves...not nearly as many as the people who have negative assumptions and tell everyone to run away without actually knowing anything about what the program actually is.

It's a tough industry to trust, we understand that. I'm glad to chat privately if you have further questions or concerns. We are not a scam, we are not sharks, we are not trying to steal your identity. It's just another funding program that requires a personal guarantor, vs. collateralizing your house or investment portfolio. It's certainly not for everyone, but is certainly a very viable option if you are already a responsible investor and have ways to use additional funds. :-) 

How do you consolidate 100k worth of credit cards into one "LOC" I can draw from to purchase real estate?