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I am just now starting off with real estate investing. I'm ok with finding an investor but my wife would rather save for the down payment on our own. If we save the money on our own, we will be looking at 2 years befo...
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I am interested in real estate investment and would like to start buy buying a place that I can live in for a few years so I am not throwing away money on rent. When I am done living in it I would be open to selling o...
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I just recently purchased my 4th rental property. Long story short we own 3 rental properties and I took out a cash out refi on one of them to purchase this 4th one. I used that money and all of my savings for this pr...
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So I recently did a BRRRR and am currently renting the home as an STR. I made the decision to turn the unattached garage into an ADU making the deal very very good once done. I have already ran all utilities from my o...
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Have equity that I would like to pull out of my rental property. Quotes rates of 6.76-7.25.
The lower rates are ARM and will give me 80% LTV. The higher rate is conventional at 70% LTV, estimated closing costs arou...
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I am new to real estate investing and I want to purchase a second house.
Here is my situation:
I bought a house about 8 months ago for 168K. I put about 18K into the house for updates and now live in it with t...
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How do you truly use someone else's money and not your own in real estate investing? Very confused because everybody I have listened to has preached that you can do this, but then on Bigger Pockets everybody is saying...
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I recently finalized my first flip. We purchased a home for 130k put about 30k into it and sold for 245k after all taxes and fees we ended up with 220k in the bank.
We are currently looking for the next deal ...
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I have watched a number of webinars recommending rental properties investment but I feel like I'm missing something.. Say I want to invest in a duplex for $200,000. I use $40,000 (20%) from my savings as a down payme...
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Looking for input on how to view and analyze Cash on Cash return vs Cap Rate %. Both are key numbers but which carries more weight?