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Allende Hernandez Do you run screening in all the potential tenants?
22 January 2025 | 16 replies
It's difficult to see how a tenant will be after screened and signing a lease.
Matthew Posteraro Conservative Scaling for House Hacking
29 January 2025 | 10 replies
There are quite a number of things that can make utilizing an FHA loan more difficult such as more barriers during appraisal, appearance of low qualification/little cash, typically longer closing period, likely higher interest rate, and PMI cannot be dropped without a refinance if 3.5% down.That said, just chain 5% down conventional loans, and make sure your duplexes pay for themselves.  
Drew Sygit A Logical Way to Understand & Monitor Your PMC's Maintenance Charges!
26 January 2025 | 2 replies
An owner can challenge the number of hours their PMC bills them for a project though.2) Contracting every job out, but the bids aren't shared and owner just gets a bill on PMC letterhead covering labor & materials, with little detail.This is a pretty difficult situation to understand the charges, so you can monitor them. - The smaller the job, the easier to understand using the material & labor steps above.- Larger jobs may require requests for more detail, so the above steps can be applied.Be sure to check your management contract for what you agreed to.
Apryl Skahill How to get spouse on board?
28 January 2025 | 19 replies
I am not saying it cannot be done but it might be difficult and is definitely more risky.
Ryan Goff Grocapitus - Anyone have experience with them?
19 February 2025 | 171 replies
Another quarterly update and another slip/delay/below plan message.Seems normal to hear these… anyway as I already said in previous message, the ROI upside to pro-forma seems very difficult.
Tomoko Hale A possible first STR property?
28 January 2025 | 29 replies
Income is difficult to predict not knowing the market.
Yaroslav Shtogun Lot split with house on the line
20 January 2025 | 16 replies
Quote from @Yaroslav Shtogun: Thank you James,Do you know how difficult it is to do dimensional variance on the lot?
Joe Binkowski 506(c) Syndication(s) Secret
27 January 2025 | 18 replies
@Joseph BinkowskiDon’t forget that you can now be qualified as an accredited investor by passing the series 65 exam without any income or net worth requirements.It will cost you around $200 to $300 and will be valid for 2 years (unless you can park your license with a financial advisor firm, then it will last as long as you maintain it).It is not a difficult exam and you should be able to pass it with around 40 hours of self study with a good prep book or website.
Samuel Kim Real estate professional status 750 hours doable?
31 January 2025 | 27 replies
Quote from @Havital Miltz: I think it will be very difficult to show 750 hours, most tenants deposit the rent, so there is no rent collection. unless you have a very high turnover of tenants, where  you need to show the houses again and again,  I am not sure where you can "find" all those hours for her, especially that you say the properties are newer, so how much repairs would you have?
Lincoln Waite Paying utilities on a Multi-Family and it's eating all of my cash flow. (Iowa)
8 February 2025 | 22 replies
don't get separate meters as that cost will be difficult to recover.