Wasam Hawari
Advice on House Hacking in San Diego, CA
Hi BP SD Community, I am an investor moving from Sacramento, CA to San Diego, CA for work. Instead of renting, I was looking into house hacking a Multi-Family property (rent one unit out and live in the other). I pref...
Scott Choppin
Apartment Financial Underwriting - A 2-part Series
In a few recent conversations with different folks, it has come up how they are calculating financial performance on multi-family projects. And to be honest, I feel the need to generate a specific post on this, since ...
Jason Malabute
VERIFYING LENDER BACKGROUND
Hi All, My agent recommended a lender. My agent works the firm with the most sales in last 12 months in my market and her firm has 5 star reviews. The lender works for major bank. I verified this because I see her na...
Chris Murdien
Would installing solar panels on rentals be a wise investment?
Question to the apartment owners, management companies, single family portfolio investors and the like.Would installing solar panels on your income producing assets make sense if there was no upfront installation cost...
Matthew Terry
$1,000 a month CF with $100K?
If I had a $100K, is it reasonable to find a deal that will achieve $1000 a month in cash flow?A portfolio of 4 $100K SFH home that produce $250 in cash flow?A $400K multifamily that produces $1000 in cash flow?What m...
Alessandro Struppa
Rental cash flow vs down payment
All,What is the ideal cash flow per unit for a specific % of down payment? I’ve watched numerous webinars and 100$ to 200$ seems to be the number. My question is what % down payment should be giving me that cash flow?...
Wilmar Treffers
Client asks sale with leverage. Smart...... or not?
I am looking for advice for a situation completely new for me. We have a lead that asks to leverage $90,000 as 10% equity down payment for long-term (10-30-Years with no balloons/calls shorter than 10-years). CFD hol...
Les Mills
How to structure LLC with different types of properties
Hi All,
Just discovered this wonderful forum and am doing loads of research based on the questions and replies. Currently, my sister and I are members (foreigners and non Americans) of an LLC which hold land ...
Quinity Williams
How to get started with Wrapable Loans
ILS Investor Loan Source is offering a great in house wrapable loan produce, but they're so backlogged that their processing time is up to 60 days. Is there another lender out there that offers an in house wrapable p...
Chris Seveney
Broker Price Opinions are useless
As an investor who orders a significant number of exterior inspections on properties - I wanted to get others opinion on BPO’sPrimarily I find them useless. The valuations on them appear to be completely arbitrary and...