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11 February 2025 | 29 replies
Focus on having a budget and having a strong financial base Thanks!
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27 January 2025 | 6 replies
I am a capital raiser, real estate and note investor, community organizer, speaker and entrepreneur.
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7 February 2025 | 16 replies
The approach involves using a hard money lender (HML) to fund 75% of the purchase price while having the seller carry back 25% in a second-position loan, allowing you to flip the property with little money down.
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22 January 2025 | 8 replies
This is a numbers game so you may have to take an aggressive approach towards negotiating several deals before one of them actually works out.
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24 January 2025 | 4 replies
It's exciting to see your focus on building a real estate portfolio for financial freedom!
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29 January 2025 | 11 replies
Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.
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14 January 2025 | 2 replies
I did find this deal driving driving for dollars, the realtor of the property was adding his sign in the front yard, I approached to make and offer. we close in 3 weeks.
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11 February 2025 | 8 replies
.- Phase 2 (April 1, 2022)Applied to all remaining existing policies, transitioning them to the Risk Rating 2.0 methodology upon renewal.The new system replaced the decades-old approach to calculating flood insurance premiums, aiming to provide fairer and more accurate rates based on individual property risk.Before Risk Rating 2.0, flood insurance premiums were mainly based on whether a property was inside or outside a designated flood zone and its elevation on a map.
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31 January 2025 | 2 replies
Focus on paying them off (smallest to largest), and you'll be living large in 20 years.
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23 January 2025 | 4 replies
Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.