Is there still opportunity for owners who want to make money with AirBnB?

Has anyone delt with a hard money lender then financing at the end to a traditional bank?

Real estate can appreciate overseas but you could still lose money based on currency exchange rates and strength.

Can you purchase a property with a Hard Money loan and then refinance into a different type of loan to have a lower interest rate?

I just purchased my first duplex and have $10K in savings, what should I do with it?

At this point I have enough saved up for a down payment and I am starting the process of acquiring financing through the investor-friendly lender tool on BP.

I would focus more on going to meetups, saving money, and learning, before jumping too soon into something with a hard paydown vs. incoming income and no savings.

This increased my down-payment amount and also axed some of the stuff I was hoping to save on but in the end it still worked out.

Mainly, because structural issues can be a complete black hole of money, time, effort--and it can be very difficult (and costly) to anticipate just how much money, time, and effort they'll consume.First, you'll need to figure out what's causing the structural issues--it could be settlement at the footers caused by ground water, it could be wood rot or termites in a beam, it could be masonry degradation caused by water coming off the roof, it could be improper drainage of the roof, it could be tree roots degrading the foundation, it could be a plumber who cut out a critical joist to install a line 20 years ago, it could be improper construction, it could be any or all of those things, and it could be any number of other potential causes.

So if you pay taxes you are making money and that’s a good thing.