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Kody Crouch Newbie buying in Milwaukee from San Mateo, CA
6 January 2020 | 16 replies
Wealth is created with with equity, de-leveraging principal, appreciation and taxes.  
Jason Boice Proof of Funds Requirements
26 December 2019 | 8 replies
In addition, you may want to have your lender write a letter that indicates you are a principal/partner.Abel 
Jerell Edmonds First investment property
26 December 2019 | 21 replies
The repayment terms for a 401k participant loan are equal monthly/quarterly payments of principal and interest (typically prime plus 1%) over a 5 year term (longer if used to acquire your principal residence).Please note that if you take a full $50,000 and then pay back the loan, you can't take another $50,000 until 12 months after the first loan was fully paid back.Per the loan offset rules that went into effect with the 2018 Tax and Job Act: if you leave your job and the loan is current at the time you leave your job but then the loan goes into default because you left your job, you will have until your tax return deadline (including any timely filed extension) to make the loan current by depositing the outstanding balance into an IRA (and thereby avoid the taxes and penalties that would otherwise apply).4) As an alternative to taking the loan, you could even purchase the investment property directly using funds in your Solo 401k (assuming you are self-employed & select a Solo 401k plan provider which allows you to invest in real estate).
Russell Mills Is it possible to get a 401k loan to rent a home
26 December 2019 | 6 replies
The repayment terms for a 401k participant loan are equal monthly/quarterly payments of principal and interest (typically prime plus 1%) over a 5 year term (longer if used to acquire your principal residence).Please note that if you take a full $50,000 and then pay back the loan, you can't take another $50,000 until 12 months after the first loan was fully paid back.Per the loan offset rules that went into effect with the 2018 Tax and Job Act: if you leave your job and the loan is current at the time you leave your job but then the loan goes into default because you left your job, you will have until your tax return deadline (including any timely filed extension) to make the loan current by depositing the outstanding balance into an IRA (and thereby avoid the taxes and penalties that would otherwise apply).
Ben Smith Dangers To Using HELOC's
26 December 2019 | 3 replies
Therefore, you need to know the maximum the rate could increase at each point, when you will start paying Principal, and how those changes in the monthly payment would effect your cash flow or overall deal.
Austin Shandley Seller financing deal
29 December 2019 | 6 replies
In our market anytime we try to do a 15 year note there is very little cash flow too.I would find out what their goals are, meaning do they need all of the principal back in the 15 years, or are they more looking for a safe return on their equity?
Stephen Beckwith Is it worth it to get a real estate license?
2 January 2020 | 18 replies
An agency relationship is a fiduciary relationship, where one person (called the “principal”) allows an agent to act on his or her behalf.
Sebastian Roy 2, 3, or 4-unit for first househack?
10 January 2020 | 15 replies
Any FHA backed loan has restrictions to only one FHA insured loan at time:"To prevent circumvention of the restrictions on making FHA-insured mortgages to investors, FHA generally will not insure more than one principal residence mortgage for any borrower.
Tab Teehee Cap rate in laymen's terms
2 January 2020 | 20 replies
It can be calculated as follows:OAR = (LTV*mc)+((1-LTV)*r)The mortgage constant represents the total amount paid to the bank each year including principal and interest.
Luke Petro How Do I Get The Cash Out of This House in Chicago?
31 December 2019 | 3 replies
The remaining principal is about $240,000 and I'm confident that it will appraise at $330,000.