This process allows you to get a new mortgage for the purchase and roll any cashout from any equity (whatever is leftover after the existing mortgage is paid off on the old house) as the downpayment -  all without having to actually sell the old home first.

Switching online services is unfortunately not an option because the large majority of house seekers use zillow.

These may be crazy or dumb ideas, but I don’t really know anything yet  I bought a house in 2020, but a lot has changed since then.

I moved from Florida to start investing in Columbus because of the same reason.https://www.zillow.com/learn/hottest-housing-markets-2024/There are some great opportunities in the Ohio markets.

As a widower with 5 grown kids, building a legacy and providing affordable housing options are top priorities.

That means you need to bring another 40k to the table at the refi cause you'll have a bridge loan of 240k to payoff.Now you'll own a 320k house with 80k equity in it making 150 cash/month.You wanna look for better deal spreads. 

With mortgage rates being so high, we'd like to do an all-cash purchase in a house with a good balance between cash flow and appreciation.

If the property is homesteaded, you are grandfathered only at max 3%.You can see bellow an example as the taxes increased after the change om ownership. the big difference is due to fact the area appreciated 1000% since the 90s when the house was initially purchased as a homestead.

I live in CA so the housing market here is out of my price range and I'm looking to get a property where I'm going to school, I was looking into Logan UT.

A huge headache is just because land is for sale doesn’t mean you can put a house on it.