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11 January 2025 | 9 replies
-Allocate a portion of your funds toward extra payments on the current mortgage while also setting aside money for a new investment.
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14 January 2025 | 10 replies
Hey, if you get married you'll be able to shield an extra $250k in capital gains!!
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23 January 2025 | 45 replies
Something like a house hack, rent out extra bedrooms in your unit, rent by the room, mid term, short term rent the owner occupied unit on busy weekends (and go stay with friends/family)...get really scrappy.
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9 January 2025 | 15 replies
If you don't need the extra money at closing and just want to pay off your current loan in hopes of a better rate, you could consider a rate term refi instead.
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5 January 2025 | 8 replies
We have been able to get some great deals simply by doing extra research that the average person wasn't willing to do.
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26 January 2025 | 30 replies
Because the extra family members weren't on the original eviction, I had to wait another 3 months to get them out. 6 months altogether.
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30 January 2025 | 47 replies
So, it's not like Scott had devised some extra default prone strategy to troll gullible fools, while making all his money teaching noobs to self-destruct.
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30 January 2025 | 48 replies
As an example, we decided to replace the windows in a house we were renovating and ended up costing us $50,000 extra because we got into issues with permitting and suddenly found ourselves having to hire an architect, speciality contractors, etc.
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9 January 2025 | 59 replies
They did have an extra step to make sure that you were the owner of the property, but otherwise it was not bad at all.
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16 January 2025 | 26 replies
Unless you are planning on investing in your back yard and have extra time to spend, getting a good PM is very important.