
4 January 2025 | 4 replies
You'll probably need a co-borrower and someone to gift the down payment.There's a Conventional loan (FNMA family opportunity loan) that allows your parents to purchase a home for you (and potentially roommates) to rent while you're still in college.

3 January 2025 | 11 replies
The source of the loan does not matter.So yes, if you borrowed $100k and used $50k to buy B and another $50k to buy C - you deduct half of the interest against B and the other half of the interest against C.

9 January 2025 | 9 replies
I'm an investor and a licensed mortgage broker who has done fix and flips both using my home's equity and borrowing against the investment property.If you (1) have enough equity in your home to fully fund the deals, (2) don't mind tying that equity up for these deals vs saving it for a rainy day and (3) are ok linking the place you sleep with the success of the flips, this could make sense.We offer a ton of different fix and flip programs including putting 10% down on the purchase price and funding 100% of the rehab.

1 January 2025 | 3 replies
Anyone who managed to do this probably did it 5+ years ago when the market was very, very different.If you borrow $200,000 to build an ADU, I suspect you would need to rent it for $5,000 or more to make the numbers work.

9 January 2025 | 14 replies
Bankruptcy will affect your ability to borrow for a long time and unless you know why you got in that position and change that behaviour, you aren't going to be any further ahead.If you think you can save $60K in 5-6 years, you can also pay off that debt in a year and then take the next few years to start saving for the down payment.

2 January 2025 | 19 replies
Stop reading if you want.2) I couldn’t guess what “There is a 6 months of grace period before interest payment begins” means.3) They call their $3555 charge a “Loan Fee,” stated a few lines up as 2%. 2% of $235,000 (loan amount) is $4470.4) Do you seriously believe the loan fee, “… IS 100% REFUNDABLE IF THERE IS ANY DEFAULT FROM THEPART OF THE LENDER OR IF THE BORROWER CHOOSES TO TERMINATE THE LOAN.”5) It’s okay to pay an appraiser directly.

4 January 2025 | 7 replies
Many appraisal in several locations have been coming in low, which can either kill the deal altogether or make the borrower come in with more funds to close.

2 January 2025 | 29 replies
Most are for the borrowers and not the lenders - so they want them to be very simplistic.

5 January 2025 | 12 replies
- 6% rate at 30 year each $100k borrowed adds $600/month.

10 January 2025 | 67 replies
And those borrowers that are higher risk are risky for you too.