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18 February 2022 | 2 replies
When it's 5 year fixed loan versus 10 on retail center they STRESS TEST the property with appraisal.
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18 February 2022 | 6 replies
I really like Temple and Belton (Right on I35, great school districts, university, major medical center), but I would also look at Harker Heights (nicer submarket of Killeen).
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19 February 2022 | 3 replies
Lastly we will visit 120 acre parcel that we have a Loooong term option on that sites right across the street from the Urban growth boundary and city limits and is within 2 miles of Intels 10 billion dollar fabs and all sorts of other industrial ( largest tech employment center in Oregon) and this one we will do a deep dive into how you set up these very long term Options that once the property comes into the city it will be a life changing event for the partners and how some of the partners have used their Roth IRA's to pay for their yearly option payments and ownership interest IE got into the deals before they were 30 and will end up with MILLIONS in tax free profit before retirement age their retirement is set without having to spend one day managing any type of real estate this parcel is dry farmed yearly for grass seed so don't even have to mow it and we get enough income to more than pay the property taxs but not the option payments.The bottom line is BP Con and BP members put us over the top in raising funds for our home give away to a deserving first responder.
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19 February 2022 | 6 replies
Of course, part of this strategy would also center around keeping the spread between rents and mortgage payments at an acceptable level, so you may have difficulty participating in too many low down payment fha loans depending on your actual salary.
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7 April 2022 | 7 replies
Setting very near major Interstate Hwy, Downtown and Medical Center, private and commercial properties.
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23 February 2022 | 12 replies
They’re right in the center of the state it’s easy access to the highway which makes for a reasonable commute to just about anywhere in the state. - as far as what to look for I’d say run your numbers and get good at running them.
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19 February 2022 | 0 replies
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Space Launch System and coordinates International Space Station experiments from Huntsville.
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8 March 2022 | 11 replies
Michigan Real Estate Investor Network is 2/24/22 at Troy Community Center starts at 5:30pm.
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25 February 2022 | 3 replies
You can get a small credit for alarm systems, smoke detectors linked to the alarm center, water leak detectors, and things like that, but the credit is usually very small - like $10 a year.
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29 September 2022 | 14 replies
There is a Costco in the works off I-35 (by the EVO movie theater), and there are also long-term plans for an urban center similar to the Domain in north Austin.