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James G. 30 or 15 Year Mortgage for Investment Property?
18 January 2018 | 4 replies

Hi BP. If you are a 21 year old about to buy and investment property as a buy and hold (it will cash flow)... Do you get a 15 year mortgage or a 30 year mortgage? What about your place of residency (not investment)? Why?

Charles Gaucher student rental garbage issues
17 December 2016 | 10 replies

So rented out house as a student rental. Aimed for a group ended up filling with individual tenants. So not an ideal situation. I got property managers, their getting the boot in January from lack of putting in any ma...

Kevin Kramer Solar panels on investment properties
6 February 2023 | 14 replies

Curious to see if any investors have solar panels on their rentals, or flips? And do you feel like it’s been worth it? 

Giovanny Vizcarra HELOC for velocity banking
12 April 2021 | 24 replies

Hello! I would like to ask for some input and helpful information, for using a Heloc as a means to paydown mortgages quicker.I have 4 properties. 3 are rentals, 1 has an attached casita. And my 4th(primary) property W...

Robert Clement How to deal with recurring late payments?
5 January 2019 | 9 replies

I have now 3 months that I been sending to my tenant 5-day notices to pay or vacate on the 6th of each month, but they just wait to the  5th day of the notice and pay (last minute). What can/should I do? I have been t...

Michael Heisterkamp Mortgage payment strategies
16 April 2013 | 14 replies

There is a mortgage payment strategy that says to pay half of the mortgage payment on the 1st/15th of the month and the 2nd half on the 15th/30th depending on the due date of the payment. This reduces the amount of i...

Jeremy Jackson If you were a newbie and had $20k, how would you use it?!
20 May 2015 | 20 replies

I'm a newbie. I have $20k set aside.  My original plan was to use it to pay off debt.  Then I decided to get serious about real estate investing, found bigger pockets and learned a little about leveraging money.So for...

Carrie Smith Appraisal on Home If not needed in the contract?
20 June 2019 | 2 replies

Hi,So I'm in the process of buying a home (yay - first investment property).  However, the home appraisal will be on my own home because I'm doing a cash-out refi for the loan.  Because I'm buying the property in cash...

Stefanie Bergmann pay more principal or take more cash flow?
26 August 2022 | 17 replies

I just made my first mortgage payment and am having some serious sticker shock when looking at the interest.why is it almost all interest? I cash flow very well on this, so could definitely afford to pay more towards ...

Hong Yang 15 years at 7.5% or 30 years at 8.0%? Which one is better?
20 September 2023 | 9 replies

So I'm trying to figure out the best return from these two mortgage options. Option A is 15 years at 7.5% and Option B is 30 years at 8.0%. Assuming that your monthly cashflow can cover either option, which option lea...