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Hello all Need advice (I think), Started in Real estate 3 years ago with 160k liquid cash to begin. I've always had the hands-on I can do it if anyone can mentally so my plan was always BRRRR (fixing ugly homes). Curr...
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Most personal finance pundits will tell you that if a purchase does not produce income and depreciates, it's bad debt. They'll also tell you that you should avoid bad debt wherever possible, buying things like cars up...
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Hello I have been a stock market investor for the last few years and now I am wanting to learn more about real estate investing. From what i have researched Theres a few ways to do it (Reits, syndication, or to buy a ...
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Opinion on re-finance terms:
Im currently at 3.625% with about 26 years left on a 30 year fixed.
I was offered 2.8% 30 year fixed on a VA IRRRL refinance. Loan would
re-set to 30 years, but principle and intere...
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I live in a state with high real estate prices where the cash on cash return isn't any good, it's more of an appreciation game here. My goal is to make 100k a year "passively" (or at least achieve financial independen...
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We're located in Northern Virginia. For the past 8 year's we've done very well flipping homes in the D.C. Area. We have cash and we want to put it into cash flowing assets in other markets. The Norfolk area is one ...
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I recently bought my house using the full 203k loan since the house had some possible structural repairs that needed to be done on the raised foundation. The repairs needed to be completed were not astronomical compar...
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Hey BP,Disclaimer: I made many mistakesUnfortunately this is not a success story, but I have learned a lot from this deal. This was my first potential deal that did not turn out so well. I got a house under contrac...
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Hi all.Is 5.25% on a 30 yr conventional loan with 15% down and excellent credit, about where the market is right now on less than a $250,000 property or should I be shopping lenders, considering I'm using a broker.
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I purchased an apartment building just before Covid hit in upstate NY. Rents are well below market and the plan was always to raise them but for obvious reasons I haven't yet. My market seems pretty tight so I if so...