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Brandon Handel Do you use commercial loans?
21 July 2018 | 4 replies
The downside is restrictive guidelines, a ton of paperwork, lack of flexibility.Commercial types of financing have pros that are flexibility in guidelines and structure you can do all sorts of stuff from substitution of collateral to partial lien releases on blanket commercial mortgages to cross collateralization and many others, less documentation than conventional financing products, use of debt coverage ratio (DCR) as opposed to Debt to income (DTI) and if you compare DCR to DTI the commercial lenders go up to 80% DTI since the reverse of 1.25x DCR is .80 or 80%.There are downsides to commercial financing and that is the convenants with in the mortgage note that can allow the lender to call the note so make sure to read all the definitions for what substantiates a "default," by the lender you'll be surprised by the definitions and language at times. 
Charles Chang Thinking of Doing a 1031 on two SFRs to Multi-Family
24 July 2018 | 23 replies
Then you can confirm they are not on the FHA approved list here: https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/condlook.cfmThen if you find a good deal you can look into the HOA resale package and find out why it is not on the approved list and then see if it is a good fit to become FHA approved once they loosen FHA guidelines on these restrictions.
Lakshay G. Howard County Unrelated People Lease Clause
21 July 2018 | 2 replies
Good morning and Happy Saturday.Can I ask if anybody knows maximum number of unrelated people can legally live in one house in Howard County, Maryland?
YiBing T. How to partner with your SD IRA to construct a deal?
21 July 2018 | 5 replies
I heard there are a lot of restrictions but I am interested in trying it out for the first time.
Timothy Skolrud How do I remove a squatter from an auction house I bought.
21 July 2018 | 4 replies
The legal postings help drive home the point that you are serious and ready to exert your rights to the fullest extent of the law.
Account Closed Investing Near Base
24 August 2019 | 22 replies
A potential concern of renting to military as that we are able to legally break a lease if put o military orders (I.e. change of assignment or deployment).
Bryan Thomas BRRRR Method with a Multipe Member LLC
15 August 2018 | 4 replies
If the house is in one person's name, then it's their property and you'd have no legal rights to it.
Benjamin Peterdon NYC Real Estate Auctions - where to find them?
26 July 2018 | 2 replies
The Bronx times posts all the legal notices.
Richard Wilson Flipping Houses: I have cash but no knowledge
23 July 2018 | 18 replies
If you do partner, spend a bit of money on a real estate attorney as you want a good legally binding agreement.
Christopher Frey Question about tax sales......
23 July 2018 | 4 replies
For judicial tax sales, they also need to start a legal action.