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17 June 2018 | 25 replies
You cannot use it for a pure investment.
8 June 2018 | 16 replies
They battery went out on the garage remote and they told me the garage door was broken.
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13 June 2018 | 19 replies
Yes, as stated I know there are better locations if I'm purely looking at growth right now, but there is a personal side to this purchase.
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8 June 2018 | 9 replies
@Jon Jones, I would look at the commercial building as if you were buying it from a pure investment side.
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10 June 2018 | 1 reply
I am, and have always been a value add investor, and I believe that trading up properties will make you a lot wealthier over the years than a pure "buy and hold" strategy would.
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21 June 2018 | 14 replies
Some thoughts that are still in mind:Should I consider pure investment properties vs trying out house-hacking?
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26 June 2018 | 9 replies
house hack vs pure investment?
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22 June 2018 | 3 replies
You might be able to improve that rate a tad bit using one of the newer residential mortgage programs that base it purely on the property's own cashflow (some of them will go as low as 1.1 DSCR whereas pure commercial wants 1.25), but the improvement wouldn't be sufficient so as to be worth the hassle/fees/costs/etc, knowing that you're just going to be doing it again in a year or two when you have sufficient 1099 longevity to get a Fannie loan.
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25 June 2018 | 4 replies
I should have my Agile Certified Practitioner certification by the end of July.The next steps for me are to find my next deal and really what I consider my first deal as it will be purely from an investing standpoint.
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3 July 2018 | 4 replies
Yours may be different.If they are small (thin) it's purely cosmetic and is something that unfortunately comes with the territory.Late, but I hope this helps.