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I recently bought my first home at 23 for 126,000. I put down 5% with a conventional loan and after appraisal, we came back with an appraisal of 145,000. Around 20k equity. I added in about 10-15k of rehab work. When ...
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Hello all,So I found an upcoming foreclosure auction listed at a Firm's website and announced in a local paper. Here is the strange part though, I searched the property records and the deed instrument number being au...
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Hello!
I'm a newbie from Iowa to the real estate investment world and am in need of capital to make my first investment. One of the options I've been looking into is using a HELOC on my primary residence. Before doin...
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Merry Christmas all! It's time to celebrate. We paid 50% of our HELOC in just 2 yrs. Now we are ready for our First Rental Property. Need your advice. Should we/can we sell the home to the LLC? It's our primary ho...
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What is the best way to leverage my home to invest in real estate? I have lots of equity built up in my home. I want to use some of it to start invest in small multi family. I thought of using a HELOC but it seems tha...
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Greetings,
Do any of you have a HELOC with the same bank that you obtain conventional or commercial loans from? My example would be drawing from the HELOC to pay cash-in-full for a house (buy and hold), then refi to ...
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I plan to buy more properties, what financial resource would be best to choose?I have 3 options:1. Use fund that is currently in stocks/bond. 2. Cash out refinance— I just did non cash out refinance on one rental prop...
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Hi BPs,It is possible to switch from a mortgage to a HELOC 1st lien?I contact a couple of banks and they are all willing to do a 2nd lien on my house for the HELOC but I haven't been able to find a bank that is willin...
I am a relatively new investor. I have three rental properties we are holding onto long term. What are your suggestions, if any, on leveraging HELOC's to purchase additional properties? Are there strategies out there ...
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Hi guys!
I've paid off my home that is now worth $530K - I want to use the equity I've accumulated to purchase an investment property (multi-family or small apartment in the LA area).
1. What is the best way I can...