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With all the underwriting guidelines changing due to COVID, where are you folks finding "decent" deals on cash out refinancing that's worth looking at? I'm finding that either the rate is not attractive enough or the...
I wholesale deals in the Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, Market, I enjoy doing deals and helping others get started. Just wondering if anyone is running into roadblocks starting thier wholesaling business. Lets sta...
Hey all! My fiance and I are looking to purchase an investment property in San Antonio, TX by the end of the year for no more than $100k. We're currently located in Los Angeles, CA, but through some research and feedb...
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Hi Folks, I'm wondering if anyone else out there has pondered this. In Oakland, if an owner moves into a property, and that property is 3 units or fewer, then after 2 years of the owner living in one of the units, the...
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So after tooling around these forums for a while, conducting many searches, and reading a lot of posts I have seen something that has come up often but not yet been addressed (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Everyon...
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You know you've said it, "I could write a book with all the things that have happened to me in my business!"In this business, you come up on all sorts of situations. Some amazing, some heartbreaking, and some outrigh...
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I have recently come across a strategy that would shave my mortgage from 30 years down to 10ish years. I would basically convert my mortgage into a first lien Heloc. A calculator to see if this strategy would work for...
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I was speaking to another Real Estate Investor who lost money on several rental properties in the 2009 economic downturn. I was curious to learn from him how he lost properties (or was forced to sell for a loss) if th...