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15 January 2025 | 7 replies
It’s hard to fathom why they would give people like that 9 months and then force the landlord to pay for them to move and get storage on top of it too.
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2 February 2025 | 6 replies
Being part Alaska Native, there was incentive where they would pay your down payment and we utilized that tool!
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6 February 2025 | 9 replies
@Jonathan SniderFannie and Freddie do have LLPA's and the lower the down payment, the higher the cost.
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30 January 2025 | 8 replies
My concern is doing the cash out refi on my other rental and causing a new and much higher payment on it that I can't just pay off like a loan.
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10 February 2025 | 10 replies
My thought is to use a HELOC for the down payment on a new property (20% down), then once I acquire it, do a cash-out refinance to pay off the HELOC while keeping my original low rate intact.
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29 January 2025 | 5 replies
THEN, I plan to purchase the second home using a FHA or conventional loan (3%-5% down), for which I will likely pay the monthly cost out-of-pocket, maybe with some rental income support if it is a duplex.My concern is, I do not want to spend my savings or weigh down my debt-to-income ratio so much so that I cannot qualify for and pay the down payment and closing for the lending on the second home.Questions: - With the first home being multi-family, 75% of the rental income (or potential rental income initially) will relatively either maintain or boost my debt-to-income ratio from lenders' perspectives, right?
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29 January 2025 | 5 replies
Quote from @Jaren Taylor: Quote from @Chris Mason: If you have the ability to market and raise money, then you secure the down payment, and do the normal commercial mortgage process.
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27 January 2025 | 11 replies
Keep in mind of the I/O(payments/period) and game plan on how fast you'd like to pay it down.
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5 January 2025 | 17 replies
If the trade value of an old shopping mall is less than the build cost of a new storage space or warehouse, then it doesn't make sense to build a new storage space or warehouse, just buy an old shopping center.
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14 January 2025 | 7 replies
Digitize physical receipts for easy storage and use a consistent naming convention for easy sorting - 2024.03.25 Home Depot.- Maintain proper records, such as contracts, settlement statements, and promissory notes.