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26 January 2025 | 2 replies
Property taxes and insurance costs are best obtained through local county websites or reaching out to insurers directly for quotes specific to the area.Tools like BP Pro and Reventure can be helpful for an overview, but it’s a good idea to validate their data against primary sources to ensure accuracy.
3 January 2025 | 4 replies
@Ana Escudero Property insurance renewals have been challenging the past few years, but there’s some stability with carriers heading into 2025.
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14 February 2025 | 4 replies
Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: Good Morning Don,I think most Note investors or those originating new loans/mortgages usually stick to one camp or the other..
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13 February 2025 | 6 replies
On the roof is there hail damage where it can be insurance claim worthy?
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4 February 2025 | 17 replies
He pays seller's note ("outside" loan), and then the seller turns around and pays his loan ("inside" loan).
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13 January 2025 | 8 replies
We were recently networking and someone told us about buying homes from auctions.
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11 February 2025 | 31 replies
Second year distributions rise to 5.27%, third year 7.27%, according to the projections.Those projections may be at risk, for many reasons: the recent huge increase in interest rates -- increasing the cost of loans and decreasing valuations, insurance costs have skyrocketed, real estate taxes are up, labor and material costs for repairs & renovations have increased, etc.On the plus side, the majority of the ODC funds were designed to be high value add projects with plans to increase operating efficiencies, add tenants and raise rents.
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13 February 2025 | 8 replies
DSCR recently came popular in the loan brokerage and private credit space with the rise of STRs and MTRs.Your local bank lenders will have the best rates typically.
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15 February 2025 | 3 replies
However, don't have any of those loans anymore (most paid off).The only thing I do that you don't, is use trusts, and love them and they have saved my bacon a number of times.
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15 February 2025 | 1 reply
You will have to get a commercial loan.