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Buddy Holmes What do Do with Buy and Hold at 27 years?
20 May 2017 | 2 replies

Not quite there yet but what strategies are there as one runs out of Depreciation on a Buy and Hold SFR?  I have been through one new roof and replaced the windows and HVAC.  I have recently gone thru a 1031 on anothe...

Matt Good What are my options?
28 November 2014 | 3 replies

Good evening all!A dear friend of mine is willing to loan me cash as an investor (because you can't gift without heavy tax penalties I know) so that I can buy a distressed property and also have the funds to rehab it....

Matt Liu Family loan -Should it be Ammortizing? 30 year?
12 May 2013 | 22 replies

When borrowing a smaller amount from family, say 25k, for a downpayment, is it at all common to do a 30-year ammortizing loan? If so, what rate? Is 7.5% 30 year ammortizing reasonable? I want it to be attractive to th...

Jeffrey Sullivan First Quad, Plenty of Info, Negative Cash Flow First Year?
4 December 2015 | 3 replies

*Summary at the bottomAlright, guys, so I'm looking at my first quad.  I have a partner that is family and we currently own six mobile homes and rent them out.  The mobile homes all rented and bringing in ~$2,000 a mo...

Arianna Farinas Should i buy a Primary or Out of State Investing?
10 June 2024 | 49 replies

Hello BP Fam,
Im new to REI and i need some advice. 
Should i focus on purchasing a primary residence or look into out of state investment property? 
Heres my situation...My husband and i live in Miami, FL and the ...

Joe Kato Buying from a family member that wants to remain living in house rent free?
16 September 2013 | 12 replies

Well I chatted with a family member that says the mortgage is too expensive to keep paying and they want to sell their 2 family. They rent out half of if and want to remain in the other half, although they would n...

Austin Stuart gift of equity rules? 1st purchase very green
22 January 2019 | 5 replies

As the title says quite new to the world of real estate. I’ll try to keep it short and too the point. I would like to purchase a home from a family member in the next 6 - 8 weeks. Home hasn’t been appra...

Account Closed Section 8 -- Incentives (rebates) to be good, clean tenants?
15 December 2016 | 17 replies

Hi guys,I am thinking about purchasing a 4-unit, 1 BR/1BA building.  Two are Section 8 ready.  In order to decrease problems with the property, I am thinking about doing the following things:1.  Only accepting those w...

Zachary Martin Father willing to buy out my mortgage and I pay him. Worth doing? Pros and cons?
20 May 2015 | 13 replies

So the scenario I have is that I am currently in the process of refinancing.  Thinking about it, I posited the question to my dad if he were to "pay/buy it off", and I were to pay him instead of the bank, he would ben...

Kyle Grimm Where do you shop? HOME DEPOT vs MENARDS vs LOWES - Benefits?
4 February 2016 | 45 replies

Hi everyone I was just looking into signing up for the Home Depot credit card yesterday (which I found doesn't have that great of benefits) and I started wondering.. out of the three biggest box stores (Home Depot, Me...