31 January 2025 | 6 replies
A better option if you can swing it is to purchase with your own funds, gain access, then refi into a loan.
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27 January 2025 | 11 replies
Personally, I'd cash-out refinance into a 30 or 15 year loan.
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2 January 2025 | 19 replies
Stop reading if you want.2) I couldn’t guess what “There is a 6 months of grace period before interest payment begins” means.3) They call their $3555 charge a “Loan Fee,” stated a few lines up as 2%. 2% of $235,000 (loan amount) is $4470.4) Do you seriously believe the loan fee, “… IS 100% REFUNDABLE IF THERE IS ANY DEFAULT FROM THEPART OF THE LENDER OR IF THE BORROWER CHOOSES TO TERMINATE THE LOAN.”5) It’s okay to pay an appraiser directly.
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29 January 2025 | 2 replies
Name detection is via loan signatures.
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23 January 2025 | 9 replies
I was considering having a lawyer draw up a baseline loan doc and make tweaks to it on a per loan basis.
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4 February 2025 | 8 replies
It's possible but going to be expensive and I would think they would want some collateral on the loan as well.
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29 January 2025 | 6 replies
If you are willing to live in urban areas you may want to talk to a local bank in your market and see if they have any incentives or grant loans for certain areas.
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26 January 2025 | 3 replies
Most agency loans will expressly forbid such an arrangement, so if they found out, the odds of having the loan called would be very high.
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23 January 2025 | 7 replies
Hey @Mike Levene, I'd recommend considering a Margin Loan against your stock portfolio.
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7 February 2025 | 2 replies
Since the rent roll was too low, she had to secure financing through a private lender that based the loan on market rent rather than the current rent.