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2 January 2025 | 8 replies
You don't need to know everything to get started; you need a foundation to build on, and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.
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14 January 2025 | 28 replies
Always happy to swap ideas and keep refining this process.
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10 January 2025 | 12 replies
These loans are short-term as you mentioned, typically 12 months, so you'll need to refinance before that balloon comes due.
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16 January 2025 | 19 replies
This has been the most successful model I have seen in real estate.This goes 100% against every guru and investor the past 5 years of get rich quick of buy, rehab, rent and refinance with little money - that video game is out of order so the gurus need to reinvest themselves and they are trying with seller financing and zero down.
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11 January 2025 | 9 replies
Use the slower months to refine your operations and marketing strategy to boost occupancy and revenue.
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16 January 2025 | 78 replies
We purchased this as a BRRRR on a Line of Credit, went to do a few fixes then refinance.
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6 January 2025 | 10 replies
Without having a credit score you can expect to have a 10% reduction on the LTV or loan amount towards a purchase or refinance.
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2 January 2025 | 5 replies
If you feel ambitious, you could try a BRRR strategy adding additional equity to the subject home and then taking equity out of it to pay off either the HELOC or if you decided to the refinance the primary residence.
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6 January 2025 | 9 replies
Keep it simple - sell the property and let each sibling do what it is that they want.If you keep it and do a refinance(to pay for the bills)Who will be on the loan, will it impact everyoen's DTI?
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4 January 2025 | 5 replies
The homebuyers program I went through wouldn’t allow me to just pay off the remaining lien they said I needed to refinance or sell the home.