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17 October 2024 | 5 replies
Antonio, my fiancée and I are both realtors, I specialize in value add property and my fiancée manages our property management company and is a traditional realtor that specializes in listing properties.
21 October 2024 | 1 reply
However, you typically need to put down a lot of money upfront.Hard money loanCompared to a traditional mortgage, a hard money loan has a lower down payment—sometimes as low as 10% of the loan amount.
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15 October 2024 | 8 replies
They were members of a Christian church when my father was alive.Their real estate portoflio to include their primary home is worth 6.2 million, and their passive income rental brings in over $240,000/year.
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18 October 2024 | 6 replies
Traditional SEO is dying and the advent of AI is changing how you should even build a website.
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16 October 2024 | 13 replies
My lender just called me quite flustered to say that he has learned that no one is doing the traditional 10% down loan for second homes, which is what I was going to use.
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15 October 2024 | 16 replies
But, I would personally be very uncomfortable using a HELOC as a traditional down payment option.
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16 October 2024 | 10 replies
I will add that investing in a real estate syndication where you have Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT), if you are going to use a self-directed IRA, you might be better off using a Roth IRA, instead of Traditional IRA, due to the tax-free compounding growth of Roth.
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16 October 2024 | 25 replies
This approach can help you secure funding more easily without the need for traditional income documentation.
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16 October 2024 | 9 replies
Hey Bryan, If you are in search of a non traditional business purpose loan there are DSCR based 2nd Mortgages (Must be an investment property) Or Hard Money 2nds on Primary Residence (Funds must be used for business purpose).
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16 October 2024 | 10 replies
Does not work as ideal brrrr even if numbers play out for traditional ideal BRRRR as there is no way to extract all cash invested.