You wouldn't want to pop a 2% balloon unless you sold the property, but make sure you write it as assumable so you can sell it.  

That home was in Milpitas CA.. probably worth about 1 mil today.. but I lived there 2 years sold it made over 50k and I was off to the races.. primary home equity as I look back 50 years of ownership and multiple homes has made me well over 2.5 million in tax free gains. 

@Sebastian Nadal for background checks, I use stessa/rent prep that’s available to us through biggerpockets tools.

It's a tool and should be used for the right property in the right area where it makes sense. 

Hi Otis,Self-Directed IRAs (SDIRAs) can be a great tool for funding real estate deals, especially for private money deals.

I believe Pricelabs is offering a pricing strategy and market analysis info more in line with hotels, and that might be a good tool for you to look at.

I stumbled upon Deal Machine as a tool to aid in the process.

I generally look for two things: new homes on the market for sale are they being sold very close to asking price, with short days on markets or not.

So I just rcvd a rental application from Zillow and the credit score is showing 714 which sounds good... BUT there have been 24 late payments with the last late payment made in Nov 2024 and  0 paid on time. There's a ...

What price and why have they not sold?