To update each bureau separately and each trade line separately costs a little and take some time (a few days to get the report with the new scores), but saves you a ton in interest rate and subsequently monthly payment down the road.  

Most of which I'm sure will occur on the ground moving through my first and then subsequent deals.

This can result in column failure and subsequent structuralmovement of the home.

Can someone else purchase the subsequent taxes? 

I'd love to spring board off of our existing property to build our family's future and [hopefully] with the bonus of not being dependent on art for the majority of my income and subsequently fall back in love with making art again!

Hi @Peter J Struck, The proposed tax policy changes that would effect 1031 Exchanges never made it into the House Ways and Means Committee mark-up nor the subsequent revisions released.

I'm going to contact city hall and see if this will be officialized, but it sounds like they have some leniency given that the moratorium and subsequent regulations (i.e 300 ft requirement) would put many people in financial straits.Glad the pro-STR crowd came out in full force at last night's meeting.

I have found most of these takes elitist and dismissive, but I recently read an article, The Rise of The California Back House House Hacker claiming that our community at BiggerPockets and the subsequent reddit forums are having a similar impact on the real estate market. 

Got a couple questions about the rehab portion on the HUD in a delayed financing scenario and how it would affect the subsequent cash-out refi that hopefully y’all can help me understand:1) does the work have to be performed by a contractor (similar to how an FHA 203k loan requires this) or can you do it yourself,2) does the scope of work have to be line-item’ed or is it just a bulk amount for the whole shebang,3) in the event that the sun, stars and the moon all aligned and Mercury just happens to be in retrograde in the rehab actually came in under budget (say, $30k put on the HUD for the rehab and it came in at $25k all said and done), is the excess amount returned or just what happens in that scenario?

Greetings, BiggerPockets members!I am very new to investing in real estate and I seem to either be in a pickle or I am just not seeing viable alternatives. I am stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC and on active duty until a...