I’ve heard a few lenders say they can’t help a first time homebuyer with DSCR. I’m a first time homebuyer looking to purchase a single family rental property in NJ. I’m self-employed, so most likely won’t be approved ...

Hello BP community,
I'm new to BP, but excited to learn through so many forums. I'm looking for my 2nd investment property and was waiting to reach a 2-year mark of my W-2 job to apply for an FHA loan or HELOC.  Howe...

Howdy!  We own one investment property in College Station, TX (CS), home of Texas A&M University 'Gig 'Em.  We currently have both our college students and one renter in that 3 br, 2 bath home.  It is in an area t...

Hi all , I'd post and find some insight on what i'm doing in my venture into REI.

First off , I've been a real estate agent for a year now, which really helps me locate good deals, and also gives me a % discount on w...

I'm on my journey to buying my first investment property before the end of the year and I've spoken with a couple lenders, and one gave me the name and number for a private money lender that would fund 100% of the rig...

I read advertisements for other landlords' rental properties.  Sometimes they say "if you have any evictions, it will be a double deposit".  I wonder, why accept more money just to take on a bad tenant? I think those ...

Thinking of expanding the tools I use in my marketing tool belt. And door hangers came to mind, these are often less talked about around here compared to direct mail or bandit signs.

I know some investors aro...

I keep on hearing from investors that "I'm waiting for interest rates to go down" or I hear "I need rates to go down for the numbers to make sense". Maybe these investors are saying this because they just got into inv...

Hi all ,

Would you take someone from Marijuana conviction from 7 years ago as tenant ?

When they say Marijuana conviction means he smoke marijuana or could mean he was selling it?

Is easy to get rid of marijuana sm...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...