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23 January 2025 | 0 replies
🎉 As we kick off 2025, I want to encourage all my fellow Americans stationed in Germany—or preparing to move here—to start thinking differently about your housing allowance.Did you know that your housing allowance could be more than just a rent payment?
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4 February 2025 | 18 replies
The other part of this is that in addition to this, we are borrowing from our home equity line of credit to put down the 20% deposit- so we have that payment too. Â
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28 January 2025 | 0 replies
Preforeclosure owner finance wrap, paid off the default payments and taxes with cash and assumed the owners loan.
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7 February 2025 | 7 replies
As far as SingleKey actually paying out on claims for tenant non-payment up to 12 months, property damages up to $10k reimbursed, covering 30 days of vacant property losses and helping out with tenant evictions up to $2k (as advertised), curious if anyone on here can attest to SingleKey actually paying out on these claims successfully.
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7 February 2025 | 2 replies
Is refinancing not an option in your mind because of the high pre-payment penalty?
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10 February 2025 | 9 replies
It's going to be challenging to find another house hack with as low of a monthly payment as you currently have, given the low interest rate.
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30 January 2025 | 13 replies
Quote from @Theresa Harris: For late payments, how late are they?Â
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11 February 2025 | 4 replies
Hey Brandon,I had good success by getting equity lines on properties to access the cash to invest again. 20% is certainly not essential if you want to go lower there are many lending options for lower down payments, especially if you are willing to house hack!
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24 January 2025 | 0 replies
In any disputed court action where the court resolves the dispute and determines the prevailing party, the court shall also award to the prevailing party its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs and the non-prevailing party shall be liable to the prevailing party for payment of any court awarded attorneys’ fees and costs.
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22 January 2025 | 12 replies
If you have a good FICO, a decent down payment and closing costs, go ahead an do the first one.Â