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5 January 2025 | 6 replies
I’m always excited to help others get started on this journey!
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4 January 2025 | 12 replies
I’m Hayat, and I’m excited to join this dynamic group of real estate investors.
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8 January 2025 | 6 replies
@Sebastian Nadal Congratulations on your first purchase and how exciting that you want to start house hacking!
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12 January 2025 | 23 replies
Most people I know start with low money down programs so they can get away with a initial capital investment of around $25k but you also need reserves.
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5 January 2025 | 39 replies
I was really excited to be a real estate investor but having 3 out of 4 tenants break leases and cause excessive property damage as well as unexpected turnover cost from excessive damage, is making want to get out.Thank you for your any input you would like to share.
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18 January 2025 | 13 replies
And with brokerages now offering new agent programs where they will pay 100% of the expense to get licensed, there is literally no reason not to.
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8 January 2025 | 16 replies
So, you say will I want to take some cash out using the 200k value but most programs will require you to wait some period of time from 3 months up to 12 months for conventional before you can use that 200k value to pull cash out.This seasoning does NOT apply to delayed financing as I mentioned in my post above.
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16 January 2025 | 23 replies
Bad part about low money programs people don't talk about, before 2022 this would not be a factor
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3 January 2025 | 7 replies
I saw this site and was so excited to be able to create a team of people to connect with for Real Estate!!!
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2 January 2025 | 9 replies
The voucher program typically determines the amount they’ll pay based on their calculations, and you don’t necessarily need to lower your listed price for utility allowances.