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12 February 2020 | 3 replies
This community is incredible and you have tons of resources to kick start your portfolio.You bring up a valid point which is that house-flipping is a full-time operation.
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12 February 2020 | 5 replies
Bad for Permanent loans.So depending on what you are trying to do with the money will affect what the right product to get would be.
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12 February 2020 | 4 replies
@Aaron Froggatt if you know the product you need but just need it in a specific state try posting in that state forum.
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12 February 2020 | 2 replies
@Mercy Postema if you know the product you need but just need it in a specific state try posting in that state forum.
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13 February 2020 | 6 replies
I know how small towns work so it might be tough but you need to push valid issues through to the right person.
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15 February 2020 | 10 replies
A lot of local banks and CUs have those products.
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14 February 2020 | 20 replies
My plan is to house hack a couple times so I figured might as well use this loan product first then FHA next.
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12 February 2020 | 4 replies
@Derek Pheiffer all depends on your income with a 5% down product and restricted to two families conventional purchase. regards joe scorese
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13 February 2020 | 2 replies
What products do you use and where do you shop for all of YOUR rental property needs?
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27 February 2020 | 48 replies
Our local economy, by my estimate, is about 20% shipping/imports, 30% fuel production, and 60% petro-chemical (plastics, clothes, 95,000 different chemicals extracted from oil, etc).