These types of investments could help you hit your goal of expanding your portfolio faster and with less capital compared to your local market.Leveraging Your Real Estate License: Since you have a real estate license, you’re in a great position to find off-market deals or help yourself with transactions.

I have an investment property in Cleveland, Ohio that I have considered using as a short term rental compared to having a long-term tenant.

Hello Sabuj,I personally like the idea of purchasing duplexes, but I think you are going to see as much appreciation compared with purchasing Single Family Residences. 

Compared to local insurance companies (I've used Farmers, state farm, and a several others over the past decade + of doing real estate) save me hundreds on monthly premiums.

The 2 elements of why this strategy is better is that if we compare both loans at a 75% LTV the rate on this method would be lower. 

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Have you secured considerably lower mortgage rates with credit unions compared to traditional bank rates?

Have you looked into what rates you can get on just a hard money loan and how does that compare to the APR on this card?

I wonder why the government isn't encouraging more people to become developers compared to the money they are putting into VCsWhat would be a good step by step approach to becoming a developer?

Compare that to $122/montn cash flow (that was done with poor underwriting)