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24 January 2025 | 2 replies
Huge thanks to Bo Stevens from Jean D'arc credit union, for helping me get a solid loan with a 6% interest rate with a super smoothe process.
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23 January 2025 | 9 replies
It stays booked in the summer and is quiet in winter (cannot use the lake, community pool, community golf course, etc).
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10 January 2025 | 7 replies
I am 14 hours into the 20-hour online course offered by "RealEstateU."
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28 January 2025 | 8 replies
I just saw that Antonella Parra Gonzalez, a third-grader at Harris Elementary School in Gilbert Public Schools, recently received the Arizona English Learner Students Success Story Award.Here in Austin, many investors are asking me to set up searches in Eanes ISD, Round Rock ISD (that also cover some homes within the Austin city limits), and then of course Leander and Lake Travis ISD.
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12 January 2025 | 5 replies
If you are looking at FHA because of credit score, then I would work on credit scores to qualify for conventional financing or see if you can get a very strong coborrower with high scores.
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8 February 2025 | 9 replies
It also depends if your tenants have good credit they care about.
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14 January 2025 | 15 replies
DSCR loans are based off of down payment, credit score and either actual or market rents so it helps to supercharge an investor's real estate goals and net worth.
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2 January 2025 | 9 replies
So I say selling is most likely your best course but regardless, to grow your portfolio stop doing 15yr terms.
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3 February 2025 | 15 replies
And of course, getting financing squared away is key so you know your price range, which will help narrow down locations and strategies.