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25 August 2024 | 8 replies
A new roof can prevent potential issues during the appraisal process, ensuring that the property qualifies for various loan programs, including FHA or VA loans, which often have stricter criteria.
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24 August 2024 | 3 replies
The VA loan is the greatest loan product available and can be an incredible way to start your RE journey (that is what I did personally).
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25 August 2024 | 12 replies
@SJ Farrugia In the FAQ disclaimer on criminal records smartmove will return criminal records in the following states Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.Now if you are located in those states you may be fine.
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23 August 2024 | 1 reply
@Virginia VanOeverenAs a private lender, it truly should be no different than traditional lender.
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25 August 2024 | 10 replies
I was an agent when buyer broker agency was introduced in VA, as a solution to avoid the many lawsuits post-sale arising from buyer confusion that the agent assisting them actually represented them, when at that time all agents worked for the seller.
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25 August 2024 | 15 replies
hi this is the honest review of pin5 and propstream so i was using connected investors but as someone else explained there was some inconsistencies with their system as well as there is now individuals on there running scams so i had to leave them then i started with propstream and been with them as well for some time the issues i have with them is a lot of their data is not correct as well and you always have to fact check the square footage of the property or the price sold with now as of today my issue with propstream is i paid to have a list over 2000 skip traced what they was able to find supposedly was 1980 the good thing they only charge for what they find so they charged me correctly the list was uploaded to calltools for my va to start calling ( now this is the kicker out of 1980 that i paid for 1660 was invalid so when i reached out to propstream and spoke with steve the mgr he said directly to me they use a 3rd party company and there was nothing they could do about that high number of invalid.not only did his response disappoint me for the simple fact i have been a paid member for sometime but now its the fact i feel its a scam as well we are talking over 60% of the list i paid for is invalid come on that will not work
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23 August 2024 | 10 replies
4) I will be putting nothing down, I will be using the VA loan for the purchase.
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25 August 2024 | 44 replies
I have a 3 or 4 bedroom in the Ettrick Virginia area that I’d like to lease/rent to a RAL.