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We are just taking baby steps and God-Willing, closing on our first deal next week. Its a 2-family REO. We would like to form a corporation through which we would like to buy more deals . How do we get started afte...
My long term goal is to build a portfolio of rental properties. I'm thinking about starting to rehab and flip homes to build more capital to invest in apartments. Does it make more sense to find partners and invest ...
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I never see/hear anyone talking about leveraging corporate credit to buy real estate. With so many LLC's out there who has maximized or leveraged there LLC to get capital(without a personal guarantee or use of their ...
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Has anyone successfully sued a bank for an appraisal refund due to an appraisal that had errors in it? Obviously suing the appraisers is much more difficult since I'm not the direct client of the appraisers but I fig...
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I was approached by Bill Gaffney. I did not move forward because he was charging fees up front that was my first real picture of yet another fake lender. I think there should be a group of people like my self who po...
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I've heard all the same things...Need 10%, need previous deals, need to be JV'd, ask relative for money..
Some of us don't have family with money to lend. Building this business from scratch, I only wanted to be a wh...
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To all my investors out there, what are the top qualities you look for in a good real estate agent? Are you looking for someone who is also an investor? Are you looking for a big brokerage? Are you looking for someone...
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Hi everyone,
I'm about a week out from taking my real estate salesman exam in MA, so I'm completely new to real estate.
I was wondering where I should start for my journey of self education when it comes to getting...
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Hello BP, With covid-19 and social distancing affecting construction projects HML's have lowered LTV and increased down payments and some have slowed lending on anything greater than minor rehab projects. I have been...
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I had a duplex appraised to get a loan on purchase...it was requested that it be done in "as repaired" condition. The report was returned with that verbiage on the cover, but there were "condition" downgrades based o...