Things need to fall in place, it can be difficult to design and manipulate the seller and an end buyer to make thins work.

It just may be a little more difficult to flip from afar as you don't want the project to be on hold when you are out of town as everyday counts when profiting from a flip.

He had a bunch of properties when the sign police called he smartly informed him they were on his property.Strange but after that it was very difficult to get anything done through the city.

On a typical six month loan, that works out to about 11% of the loan amount, or about 7% of ARV.Yet on the third hand some HMLs want to see some percentage of the deal in your own cash, regardless of the numbers.Many HMLs require you to do the work first, get it inspected and then get reimbursed for the repair costs, if those have been included in the loan.And you will want to have enough cash to cover any unexpected problems.If your underlying question is "how can I do a fix and flip with none of my own cash" then I will say that is very, very difficult to do.

If the former, it may be difficult, you'd just pick up the updates code book, and anything that's non conforming would fit the bill.

I wouldn't know whether to stay in the first unit I buy or move into the second when I purchased it because I've read that it's much more difficult to get a hold on a mortgage loan when you're purchasing as an investor rather than someone who's going to actually live in the property.

You also cap/hinder upside which is the reason we do real estate, no?

It was very difficult for me not to throw some sort of hat into the ring with that pre-qual, but I held off.

It is a fairly consistent rule that larger returns come from loans in deeper distress or files that carry more difficult defects.

Currently I own several townhouses, single family homes and an apartment building so I would like to invest in something along those lines since I am more familiar with that and would like something that has a cap of 12% annually.Hi Ali!