However, we do not want the tenant to pay for the electricity that we use.I contacted Edison and the County to see if we could install an additional electric pole to have a separate meter, but they said it is not allowed to have more than one pole for our property.I found a sub-meter on Amazon, and I wonder if it is allowed to install one on the electric pole, so our tenant can see how much energy we have used.

.- I go to military training on the 7th.I have a good lock on my interest rate and afraid of doing the mortgage application over again due to a slight decrease in my current job pay but will be going up again in a few months and I'll also be house hacking once I own and solely live in the house.

Know the costs for fixing up the property and explore ways to pay, like bank loans, FHA loans, and local aid.

First time poster here…I just found the bp site this week after diving into quite a few of the podcasts recently.I am brand new to this area and am in the learning and evaluating phase right now..

Dont like the complexity and stress of fidning stuff in 180 days, the potential to get a bad deal sounds worse than having to pay 50k.

Using an FHA loan is a lot easier to get pre-approved, but you will need that 3.5% for a downpayment as well as 2-3% more for closing cost but you can also get sellers credit and not have to pay as much upfront.

Hello everyone, I have been on the site without an account for a while now and I recently made that change to pursue this option with my wife.

You’re paying $9k in property taxes on a $350k property?

So I guess in another way, it is paying to access those resources.

Seems I could be paying a lot of money to own a lot of nothing.