
4 October 2017 | 8 replies
Listing the home as an investment property allows you to consider rental income as part of your DTI (debt to income) while traditional lenders don't accept house hacking (but small lenders and community banks often will).

6 October 2017 | 9 replies
(The definition for first-time homebuyer is the same for Roth vs Traditional but is only defined in the Traditional section) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdfNote: I am under 59 and a half

19 November 2017 | 4 replies
All our other properties were traditional sales.

8 November 2017 | 12 replies
@Victoria Dransoff we have done this twice, once with a traditional non-recourse lender (on @Dmitriy Fomichenko's list, NASB) and once with a Private Lender.

14 November 2017 | 6 replies
I am going to be doing a debt consolidation loan to my brother-in-law using my Traditional and Roth Solo 401k (because I don't have enough in any single account).

5 April 2018 | 2 replies
If you are not as qualified having owner financed loans will increase your debt to income ratio, which may make it harder to borrow from traditional lenders in the future.

26 April 2018 | 1 reply
This provided me with the cash to flip several more houses in the next few years, and happily kept me out of a traditional nine-to-five job for the remainder of my 20s.

6 December 2017 | 16 replies
(note, my "repair est" I'm not concerned with it be slightly off I've budgeted for 10k surprise, and the "ARV" is based on my own comps, not my realtors yet)Purchase: 54kClosing: 2.5kRepairs: 12kProj Cost: 68.5kARV: 90k2 months to rehab, 6 to refiPurchased w/ traditional 30yrDown Payment: $10,800.00Loan Amount: $43,200.00Loan Points/Fees: $0.00Amortized Over: 30 yearsLoan Interest Rate: 6.13%Monthly P&I: $262.49Total Cash Needed At Purchase: $25,300.00Refinance: W/ Traditional 30yrLoan Amount: $67,500.00Loan Fees: $1,000.00Amortized Over: 30 yearsLoan Interest Rate: 6.13%Monthly P&I: $410.14Total Cash Invested: $1,744.84Expenses:Vacancy $91.00 (7%)Repairs $65.00 (5%)CapEx $65.00 (5%)Water & Sewer $30.00 (2%)Garbage $14.00 (1%)Insurance $215.00 (17%)Management $130.00 (10%)P&I $410.14 (32%)Property Taxes $58.33 (4%)Total $1,078.47 (83%)Monthly Income: Monthly Expenses: Monthly Cash Flow: Pro Forma Cap Rate:$1,300.00 $931 / $1,078 $369 / $222 8.42%NOI Total Cash Needed Cash on Cash ROI Purchase Cap Rate$7,580.00 $25,300.00 17.5% / 152.4% 14.04%So am I missing something here?

14 February 2024 | 32 replies
Worst case at least I know there ARE options and I'm not completely stuck in the mud.

16 November 2017 | 10 replies
The house is in a flood plain, so I can see a benefit to using concrete over a traditional wood supported floor when moisture/rot is an issue.