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One of my associates has a foreclosure on their credit report. Can someone give any information on how to remove that without hiring a professional company?
Thanks
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If you were starting out with 15,000 cash and you wanted to flip homes, what steps would you take first? 15K is obviously not enough to flip an entire home.
This is what I'm starting with right now. I have done alo...
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Last week I met with a local financial adviser. I informed him that I'm a real estate investor, so he suggested Infinite Banking as possible financing option. The infinite banking sounds similar to using $401k or IR...
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So, all of a sudden I'm hearing a lot about Lease Options again. I thought these things were basically eliminated as a viable investment strategy when Dodd-Frank was enacted. Apparently I was wrong, so naturally I hav...
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Hello all, I've been on bigger pockets for a while now but this is my first post. To give you some back story my wife and I live in the Atlanta area and bought our first property back in 2017 and put it up for rent tw...
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Experian says my FICO is 816. My lender showed me my credit report that she pulled and Experian says my FICO is 695. When I asked my lender about this, her reply was that there's a consumer FICO and a lender FICO th...
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I have seen in the forums that different people approach Medical collections in a credit report differently. Some automatically do not approve applicants with multiple collections regardless of what they are for, whi...
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My Husband and I rented a fully furnished house to a woman and her child in Henderson NV. She decided she no longer wanted to pay her rent. She was evicted after 3 months. She not only destroyed the inside of the hous...
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Hi BP Family!
I'm currently in the process of trying to get a HELOC to get some money for my next deal. The bank didn't do a full appraisal, but instead used an online system called an AVM appraisal, and said my home...