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Ram Chandrasekaran New Member from Concord, CA
16 April 2008 | 5 replies
Goal in Real Estate and Stocks/Bonds is CashFlow & Capital Gains.
Tony Silva advice from broker buddy
14 April 2008 | 5 replies
Also, I live in california and it would take massive capital to get involved with my own house here as a first investment.
Mr Good How am I doing?Bought a fixer, fixed her, found first tenant
22 April 2008 | 7 replies
Then it takes another seven years to make up the losses.
Omar Johnson Loss Mitigation Alternatives
23 April 2008 | 2 replies
Does working with sellers in pre-foreclosure mean you have to be a loss mitigation expert?
Steve Chenoweth various questions on property insurance and tenants
19 April 2008 | 4 replies
In the lease, can you reserve the right to sue the tenant for any loss it seems that they have caused, like fire or other damage, something that goes past the amount of the security deposit?
Bill C What is my ROI and options?
18 April 2008 | 4 replies
You could make as much money managing property for others without investing the money to buy your property.Costs like turnover costs and reserves for capital improvements may not happen this year or even next but if you are not planning for them they can sink you.
Chris Pelletier I think I found a winner!!
14 May 2008 | 21 replies
Let's say $2,000 for the rent.Gross rents: $2,000Operating Expenses: $1,000NOI: $1,000Mortgage Payment ($155K, 30 yr, 7%): $1,031Monthly Cash Flow: $31 LOSS This is NOT a good deal.Mike
Tyler Christensen Advice for buying a home
25 April 2008 | 2 replies
We could:1) Cash out our $3,000 index fund and $1,000 in individual stocks, taking a loss (this loss won't help us with taxes, our income is so low we get everything back anyways), and scrounge up loose change for the rest.2) Ask our bank to lower the interest rate on our debit card credit line (currently 9.75%), extend our credit from $1,000 to $5,000 and live off credit this summer until we can take out more student loans in the fall.
Mark Key Alt-A Problem is bigger than sub-prime
6 July 2008 | 15 replies
At the risk of overkill, I might point out one more factor that does point toward losses of equity values in the long term in the area of Alt-A and even prime becoming far more staggering – appraisals for sub-prime loans were highly scrutinized, even during the refi boom.
S Harper How to roll rep. cost into rental property loan?
23 April 2008 | 6 replies
We are bidding 10K below sales price (it has been on the market for many months).Our agent had several suggestions to get the repair $, including:get 20k commission to realtor and he 1099's it to uspd to mtg broker as discount pt and broker gets it to usfind a lender who will loan based on post-repair valuedo fix&flip loan, refi when repairs are finishedThis will be our first rental purchase, so we are at a loss as to which is the best option.