My fiancee is the breadwinner, we moved to Tampa to for her job and it pays fantastic and it has financed 2 of our rental purchases thus far but I'm looking to do a lot more purchases and I'm really thinking this is the way to do it.

So although you get payment today, if your tenant decides to charge back 6 months down the road because they are unhappy with you about something they can, and most large CC companies like Visa protect the end user over the person collecting the payment.Wire Transfer: These are bank to bank transfers and are usually the safest way to transfer money, they are fast, almost immediately in most cases and cannot be easily reversed.

I am on a H1B visa and my SSN is "VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION."

Good agents do that.Also remember Sellers perceptions are not reality many times.. sellers think things are great with their house when its a train wreck and vis a versa.. buyers especially with all the internet guru stuff are out there in droves trying to wholesale with no money.. a good agent can flesh that out and kick them to the curb like they should.

If you pay less, then you will generate higher CAP and visa versa.The other important metric to consider, even more important then the CAP, is Cash Flow.CF = NOI – Cost of MoneyThus, if the mortgage payment on this property runs $550/mo or $6,600, then the CF is $3,400 per year, or $283.34/mo.And finally, there is the Cash on Cash return, which is the juxtaposition of the cash invested to cash recovered on an annual basis represented as a percentage:Cash on Cash = CF / Total Cash Investment (Down-payment + Repairs + Closing Costs, etc)Thus, if you put down 20%, which in this case is $20,000, then your COC is:COC = $3,400 / $20,000 = 17%If, however, you use a VA loan with a 3% down, you will only need to put down $3,000.

It will be easy to find new tenants since my fiancée and I know a lot of people not far from our university alma mater that need places to live.

Has anyone successfully invested in real estate and obtained green card through EB5 direct investment visa?

I grew up in Dartmouth right nex tdoor to NB, but my Fiancee and I currently live just outside of Boston.

Plus add in studs, drywall, insulation, door and paint and figure roughly another $1000.My partner/fiancee is a pretty fair carpenter so she did the walls, drywall, painting, etc. so we saved bucks there.IMO, a full bath is far superior to a 1/2 if you have the roomGood luck.

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