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9 December 2024 | 16 replies
For anything less than that with a traditional bank or credit union, you'd likely be looking at a portfolio product (the bank/CU will hold your loan and not sell it on the secondary market).
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2 December 2024 | 9 replies
You might check with smaller outfits too like Co/Lab lending, Preferred Mortgage, Aceland Mortgage, and co-ops/credit unions.
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3 December 2024 | 10 replies
@Jaycee Greene I’ve contacted big banks small local banks and I haven’t quite tried credit unions although I have 2 credit unions for which I have accounts (but my experience is that they aren’t offering that much better terms).
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4 December 2024 | 10 replies
within 5-30 minutes of 4 wedding venues and about 10 minutes from a military base that does training.
7 December 2024 | 35 replies
I never really know ahead of time which lender might be open to that before putting the full credit package in front of them, and many of them 'in theory' offer it, it's just a matter of exposing the potential transaction to enough credit unions and banks that a few "swipe left," a few "swipe right," and looking at the terms offered by those that swiped right.
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15 December 2024 | 30 replies
The tenant pools are great, as we are the State capital, we have two MAJOR hospitals, government jobs, large developments happening (out-of-state union workers), MSU, Lansing Community College, and so on.
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8 December 2024 | 21 replies
I have an old military buddy that did it and it appears he got a lot out of it and is now making money in real estate.
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30 November 2024 | 6 replies
Check with a few local credit unions as they usually have the best HELOC offerings.
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4 December 2024 | 16 replies
We bought it for $225k with a 3.125% mortgage and 1) are interested in keeping it as our first rental. 2) We are thinking about using some of the equity (maybe $50k or less as a HELOC to combine with existing cash for our next home down payment that we can convert to a HELOAN through our credit union).
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7 December 2024 | 18 replies
The good thing is, she is now researching credit unions and banks for a car loan.