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1 December 2024 | 134 replies
Gotta love these low lifes Suspected meth lab found in basement of home that caught fire, Cleveland investigators say (cleveland19.com)
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14 November 2024 | 3 replies
My townhome development in WA was under 200k for 18-units to get full building and civil permits.So hypothetically, if you think it's worth 100k per door at preliminary approval before utilities and improvements maybe it'd be worth paying 50-60k per lot.
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12 November 2024 | 6 replies
if the timber is merch you should get a mill in there to bid on the timber.. hire a logger.. profit you use to knock the stumps out.your civil engineer should be giving you a preliminary cost to do infrastructure normally they will do these for free since they will be designing it all.. they would be the best bet anyone on line is simply a WAG
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20 November 2024 | 37 replies
Use some for buy and hold (I personally would prefer apartments rather than buying a few single family homes) and some for lending/trust deed investing.In either category, you must know what you are doing, know how to vet the investment, how to vet the sponsor (if investing in a larger fund of some sort), the laws and regulations on the lending side, how to investigate which areas to invest in buy and hold and notes/trust deeds for that matter.So as you have already said several times, lots to think about . . .
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18 November 2024 | 14 replies
We use a YTD paystub and last year’s W-2(s) to calculate income several different ways:Hourly or salary income calculated to a monthly amountYTD income divided by number of YTD monthsYTD + W-2(s) income divided by the corresponding number of monthsIf these numbers vary too much, then we investigate and require an acceptable Letter of Explanation.Employment StabilityUnless an applicant has exceptional credit, we strive to determine their stability of employment to make sure they’ll always be able to pay the rent on time.
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12 November 2024 | 11 replies
I'm starting to investigate more creative financing options to scale faster in 2025 - 2030.
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12 November 2024 | 17 replies
We also plan to finish the basement, which would add about 700 square feet of living space.Before purchasing the property, we ran preliminary numbers, and converting it to an STR seemed promising.
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10 November 2024 | 7 replies
Based on some quick preliminary research, it seems like it could be a pretty good place for me to start investing.
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11 November 2024 | 12 replies
Are they going to flag it as a statistical abnormality and send investigators after you?
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10 November 2024 | 7 replies
I was told if I could show a professional license such as a broker license I might get approved but the best option would be a Private Investigators license, otherwise, they didn't see any other path to approval for me or my company.