I also was so motivated and dumb at one time that I used my stellar credit in the past to fund a brokerage account for "binary options"... upwards of 250k.

I was wondering if any of you all had investing advice or a relevant article for a new investor trying to get down payment funding for his next and first deal, or just advice for a young investor in my situation trying to make it in general!

Hi Stephan,This seems to be a very popular and effective way to fund rehab deals.

If you have not made any improvements or raised rents I'm not sure you will be able to get any cash out.  

I live in Richmond, but I was born and raised in VB and went to college in Norfolk.

You can wholesale and use the funds from your deals towards your house hack down payment.

There are very few (only one that I know) that will delay an appraisal until after funding, but that has it's own criteria that is very atypical for the average borrower.Look at it this way, you want to ensure that the value of EACH property is where the margins make sense for both you and the lender.

I would actually prefer the renovation is baked into the loan amount, so that I can quickly renovate and raise rents.

Larger government laws overrule smaller ones.Anyway, this page from the Ohio bar says you can put it in the tenant's name: https://www.ohiobar.org/forpublic/resources/lawfac...It's sounding like "keep the water in the owner's name" is common practice people think is actually required.Edit: I'm obviously not giving anyone legal advice, I'm just an accountant raised by lawyers, so I'm persnickety about this stuff.

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