Also, if a few hundred dollars in draw fees will make your deal go sideways, it may not be the best deal for you, especially as you are just getting started.I'm happy to share my experience as an investor and a mortgage broker.

@Aubrey Eblin Thank you very much for sharing your experience with the Rent To Retirement Academy. 

If anyone has the names of such non-profits and/or anyone with experience doing this as a landlord, I would like to speak with you.Michael King

Please share any helpful resources, your personal experiences, and what you have found to be valuable with every transaction.

I’d love to hear your experience and what you took away from it! 

Hi @Dawn Bertrand, I'm sorry that you feel this way about your experience as a resident of JWB. 

Purchase and rehab properties will have a similar reduction, but as long as you have experience within the US, you should still be able to get some pretty good terms.

We had to move fast and initially decided to sell it, the relator who was helping us somehow convinced us we should make it a rental property......... and let her be our tenant (insert face palm here) so since we had no real estate experience and we were already moved away, we agreed.

I have been seeing a lot of houses in the area going up for foreclosure. But the whole concept of foreclosed homes is confusing to me. Is this a good way to get into real estate investing? What are the benefits and dr...

Contractors play such a huge role in real estate projects.