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8 October 2024 | 9 replies
Can I qualify as a First Time Home Buyer and utilize FHA or similar programs?
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8 October 2024 | 5 replies
Additionally, I’m partnering with a friend where we then can take advantage of a first-time homebuyer program, but we’re unfamiliar with the available options in Charlotte.Your guidance and expertise in helping us find suitable properties and navigate these programs would be greatly appreciated.
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10 October 2024 | 9 replies
There's pluses and minuses to each choice....For Financing, the HML here in the states always drop and restart their Foreign National Programs.
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9 October 2024 | 3 replies
Are you mainly partnering with local municipalities and grant programs and then bringing in a lender?
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8 October 2024 | 2 replies
Does anyone know of an online insurer that will write specified actual value policies that would allow me to choose the actual value that is adequate for my program?
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11 October 2024 | 7 replies
To add to the humor, I skiptrace the guy, I think he has more court cases against him than the weekend warrior training program /guru who has around $2M in judgments against him that he probably just took his weekend course from - because its comical that after this guru holds his course every new investor comes out of the wood work with the same facebook and email campaign that they have been teaching for the past ten years..
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9 October 2024 | 13 replies
I sought information on another website program, and the first on the list turned out to be BP.
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8 October 2024 | 0 replies
Does anyone have experience with applying, qualifying, or building with the Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program?
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11 October 2024 | 11 replies
With DSCR loans the best you'll find is 85% of purchase but the rates are so much higher than an 80% that you'll likely be going with 20% down and that program will be based off FICO score and the cash flow of the property.
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9 October 2024 | 3 replies
The 90%/100% programs are out there for new investors, I know of 1 maybe 2 that will provide those terms to a new investor given:Credit is 750+Appraisal numbers came in fantasticThe zip code the house is in is a favorable one for an exitI've closed or oversaw the close of 100s of bridge loans, be happy to answer any questions you may have about it.If your ARV is 550k, that means you want your max project cost to be about 398k (72.5% of ARV), if you buy for 359k that leaves hardly any room at all for rehab costs.