The loan officer was aware borrowers planned to use it as a portfolio rental so the only thing this "special loan" would accomplish is burning the relationship. 

The presale of new construction is completely gone because too many investors got burned when builders promised 12 month builds and took 2 years to complete - the interest killed them. 

I say we skip the fines and just burn them at the stake, then leave the bodies on pikes as warnings for those to come 🤣🤣🤣

Reputation and referrals matter.I invest out of state, and I’ve been burned by bad contractors before—it’s a fast way to lose money.

Can anyone give me a candid review to ensure that I wouldn't get burned from this VA company  me and my partner can testify, closing our 2nd for the month in 10days, $11k spread that we anticipate 

When you say "open to investing anywhere that makes financial sense" you just invite everyone to pitch, especially when you also say you have 400k to burn so be careful.

Due to amortization schedules front loading; you could be burning money if you go light on your down payment and use a 30 year. 

Recently Clint made a post about the land market has been tough & how he felt burn out from teaching things that don’t work like they used to.

Hello, I’m interested on getting some insight from anyone willingI currently live in Seattle and want to get into REI but the cost out here makes it tough to be able to get involved without capitalI read the out of state investing book and it got me interested in trying somewhere that I don’t have to burn up all my capital to get started1.

My best guess would be you had carryover losses but consider the opportunity cost of burning them up.