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All Forum Posts by: Sherief Elbassuoni

Sherief Elbassuoni has started 15 posts and replied 851 times.

Post: Any Commercial lender contacts in Seattle, WA area

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
  • Votes 1,968
Quote from @Krishna Anisetty:

I am new in to commercial real estate and like a property. Likely need to take a private loan to be competitive and close soon. But plan to refinance to a  Commercial SBA loan. Any contacts in the area that can guide us and ensure we can get the Commercial loan?

 @Krishna Anisetty, you can contact Flynn Family Business. They are amazing!

Post: Is it still possible to cashflow in Seattle?

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
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Quote from @Ryan Lam:
Quote from @John Barrett:

@Ryan Lam are you just looking for this to be and investment property or could you look at doing a house hack?  If you have the option to do a house hack, that could be a good way to buy an ugly property in a good area and force appreciation.  After two years you can claim your tax free gains and move to the next one.

You are trading the cash flow in the short term for growing the equity which could be far greater in a couple years.  This also gets you out of having to deal with the worst of the landlord tenant laws.  Obviously it's not for everyone but just a thought.

John

Is it more difficult to do it through investment property instead of house hacking?

 With investment property route, you need to put higher down payment (15% for single family, and 20-25% for small multifamily, compared to starting 3.5% for house hack route). Also, interest rate for investment properties are 1 to 1.5% higher than house hack primary residence

It depends on budget and your experience.

If this is your first development project, it may be too big of a project as a first one. 

You can probably buy a single family and build a Detached accessory dwelling unit (DADU) in backyard.

If you have experience and can finance 30–40% of project through a construction loan, you can go big as long as zoning allows, and numbers make sense

Post: Is it still possible to cashflow in Seattle?

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
  • Votes 1,968
Quote from @Ryan Lam:
Quote from @Sherief Elbassuoni:
Quote from @Ryan Lam:

I'm currently looking to buy my first rental property, but after running some numbers nothing seem to cashflow in the greater Seattle area. Is there still deals in Seattle or should I look oos?

 @Ryan Lam, we get cash flow with creative ways like STR, rent by the room, split level homes that get rented to two families, .....

If you are just renting one house to one fmaily, it will not cash flow

@Sherief Elbassuoni are you still able to find split level homes around $500k?


 It all depends on which city or neighborhood and what is the property you are willing to buy

Post: Is it still possible to cashflow in Seattle?

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
  • Votes 1,968
Quote from @Ryan Lam:

I'm currently looking to buy my first rental property, but after running some numbers nothing seem to cashflow in the greater Seattle area. Is there still deals in Seattle or should I look oos?

 @Ryan Lam, we get cash flow with creative ways like STR, rent by the room, split level homes that get rented to two families, .....

If you are just renting one house to one fmaily, it will not cash flow

Quote from @Heidi K Lovig:

I am looking for a private money lender who is willing to put up $99,800 into a down payment reserve account to be held for the duration of the project. The property is on Ames Lake in Redmond, WA just outside of Seattle. GC and team are in place. You could make a quick return in 12 weeks time. Please email if you are serious and I will send you a presentation. The wire has to land on Tuesday 10/3 to First American Title - Seattle. 

 @Heidi K Lovig, try contacting Flynn Family Lending. They are great

Post: Introduction About Me

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
  • Votes 1,968

@Christian Toralba, welcome to BP. You are in the right place.

Real Estate is the way to go if you want financial freedom and quitting your 9-5

Send us your questions, and we are all happy to help and support you in your investment journey!

Post: New to real estate - looking into fix and flip

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
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@Ryan Engels, I do deals in Tacoma/Puyallup/Sumner areas and I can share what worked and didnot wortk with me there!

Post: 50% premium increase in Olympia, Washington

Sherief ElbassuoniPosted
  • Realtor
  • Bellevue, WA
  • Posts 882
  • Votes 1,968

@Larry Tran, unfortunatelly, this is common. Most insurance companies increases premiums.

Contact the big players (Statefarm, Geico, ....) and also an insurance broker, and shop around

@Catherine Javier, there are different ways to calculate that, one of them is to calculate how many days the property was booked out (rented) and divide that by number of reservations, this will give you the average number of days for each reservation