Vice President Harris is expected to announce her plans at a rally on Friday. According to Forbes, it will focus on creating more affordable housing. Some of the finer points that I can see are $25,000 in down payment...

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A few years ago, I needed my father to co-sign on a mortgage with me to buy my first home. We decided he would just buy the house instead and I would pay in an unofficial mortgage each month. I moved out of th...

Structuring this as a purchase from your dad to you is going to be the best way to do it. Setting the purchase price at the market value of $1,700,000 with a gift of equity for the down payment of 40% would leave you...

Hey all, I am on bigger pockets simply because I want to help beginners make that leap like I had to all on my own before I knew about bigger pockets.  A quick blurb on my experience : I am a serial House Hacker I am ...

Hi,I was reading an article a few days ago that said 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 if they had an emergency. I couldn't believe almost half the country is that broke. The median household income is 60k, so ...

Hey BP! Wanted to share a quick story and our progression for anyone who might find it useful. None of this is intended to brag, as there are many more amazing people than us out there. It’s just here as an example o...

I am trying to buy a SFH investment property, but have hit a major snag. I have $35,000 for a down payment but it was a gift from my parents. Lenders are telling me gift money cannot be used as a down payment for inve...

I have a tenant that pays on time and keeps place clean.
I also offer him a desirable place to live that is being taken care of.
To me nice tenant is not the one who expects me to subsidize their rent. 
I provide a...

Hi. With the feds now monitoring all digital money transactions (Zelle, Cashapp, Venmo, etc) should we explore other methods of accepting rental payments ?

it's expected 900% in certain way that unemployment would raise more than current 3-ish to 5-ish next year and higher chance of recession signaling Fed to post 75 bps rate reduction in 2024, question would be whether ...