Hello! First time home buyer in LA here. Looking to buy a 2 br condo in an area with appreciation as the priority. Mainly looking at Toluca Lake/NoHo area (<$550K), but open to others. I'll post a few questions to ...

Does anyone know of any banks that will do Heloc’s on investment properties?

A lot of people have been talking about this new limit, without much perspective on the issue. The issue is that the GSE's, Fannie/Freddie are going to limit the number of 2nd homes and investor loans that get rolled ...

Curious how everyone approaches the aspect of buying points, bigger down, or standard rate etc. Looking at a mortgage around 5% int, could get it down to 4% ish with $4k in points. My other choice is to leave it at th...

I read a passage from the book How to be a Capitalist without any Capital written by Nathan Latka. On page 312 he starts a paragraph describing the time he invested 11k in a hostel and received 1,200 quarter, an annua...

Hi everyone,

Sometime over the next 6 to 12 months, I plan to acquire my first investment property. My current FICO scores range from 726-738. Four years ago, my scores were around 790.
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Does anyone use Stessa for collection of monthly rental income? What program do you use for rent collection? (automatic late fee generated program)

hi, i'm evaluating whether to sell or continue renting my previous primary residence - i'm approaching the 5 year limit after which i will have to pay long term capital gains. I'm trying to figure how much the tax mig...

In Boerne, San Antonio, Texas is it safe to say cap rate is 6% and vacancy rate is 7.6%? 

Hi BP, we plan to buy a property in cash and want to consider Brrrr feasibility thereafter. If we were to do a cash out refinance of that property is approval of the refinance income dependent (on our jobs/rental inco...