7 December 2024 | 35 replies
I never really know ahead of time which lender might be open to that before putting the full credit package in front of them, and many of them 'in theory' offer it, it's just a matter of exposing the potential transaction to enough credit unions and banks that a few "swipe left," a few "swipe right," and looking at the terms offered by those that swiped right.
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2 December 2024 | 4 replies
Your credit limit on an unused card will not generally affect your scores.
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17 December 2024 | 42 replies
Find a home owner who is in default and have them agree to let you save their credit score and going into forclosure.
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6 December 2024 | 45 replies
:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.
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15 December 2024 | 30 replies
The tenant pools are great, as we are the State capital, we have two MAJOR hospitals, government jobs, large developments happening (out-of-state union workers), MSU, Lansing Community College, and so on.
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5 December 2024 | 5 replies
But it's extremely common here for new folks to come on BP with broad stroke questions, without realizing the forum is a searchable database of scores of common questions with a plethora of answers already posted.Mike
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7 December 2024 | 5 replies
When we did it, we did score some great deals, but what we found was that we were visiting so many properties to understand our "strike price" (the maximimum we would pay for the property when taking into account rehab costs, hold times, interest on any debt, closing costs, real estate commissions, a contingency reserve for "unexpecteds", etc) that the math started to not make as much sense.
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9 December 2024 | 11 replies
Airbnb algorithm is a mystery somewhat - but the algo does factor your cleaning fee, cancellation policy, review score, and more when factoring visibility.
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6 December 2024 | 13 replies
I have $80k liquid in CDs and savings accounts in the bank and a credit score between 760 - 780.
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11 December 2024 | 34 replies
They use PRICE LABS to create these score cards that test your price, data is pulled from Price Labs, well guess what you can access that right from Price Labs you do not need to pay them for that.