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Hey all;Brand new to real estate investing. Looking to purchase my first cash generating rental but am coming into this with zero experience. Looking for advice with getting started. Best avenues for $$, metrics ...
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I have a potential hard money cash provider to fund the acquisition of land and fund new construction build. I'm a licensed GC and would handle everything project/construction related. Site selection, estimating/detai...
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Hey everyone my name is Marcus, I am a recent college graduate and I am looking to start investing in small multifamily housing units in Omaha, NE. I am currently trying to decide if I should try to pay off my student...
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Don't you just love what you see when you take your dog for a walk? There is a house that just had a Realtor sign put up yesterday. I knew it was going into foreclosure, but I had been told by the defaulted home owne...
Hello all, good day! May I have suggestions with my scenario. Was out of work for 9 months and also during that time my father had passed. I accumulated about 50k in bills/expenses on cards during that time and anoth...
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I'm a little confused on how to calculate the DTI ratio. If a rental property is in your name, and let's assume that 75% of the rents offsets the PITI but you have no cashflow. Let's say you want to go out and get ano...
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Since it's so hard to collect from tenants who owe, or in some cases not really worth trying to collect, I would like to know more on being able to use the 1099-C "cancellation of debt" form. All responses appreciated
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Hello Everyone!!!I hope all is well. I have a couple questions about the calculation of the debt to income ratio for qualifying for loan.. I am currently living with my girlfriend and she pays for some of the househol...
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Really thought I would have an easier time finding a consistent definition of this by googling.
Can someone lay out for me what of the following goes into the expense part of the 50% ratio?:
[/u]Hard, real costs (eg...