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Hey, Everyone! It's great to finally be apart of BiggerPockets after listening to the podcast. I'm from the Northwest (Olympia,WA & Portland,OR). I moved to Los Angeles recently because of work. I've been in th...
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@Brandon Turner - I want to thank you for mentioning utilizing Google Drive umpteen podcasts ago for storing Loan Origination info. From that podcast I created a Google Drive share for my documents, somewhere in late ...
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Hey, I'm Jason McCain.
I grew up north of Nashville outside of Clarksville TN and Hopkinsville KY. I am currently a civil servant working for the DoD and I was previously in the Air Force with my wife. My wife is...
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Hello and I'm looking for a Mortgage Loan Originator to create a secured note on a owner financed sale of a mobile home in Laramie, Wyoming. Any information on MLOs that work with investors in this area would be grea...
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I wonder if it is worth investing time to get the license or at least to take the exam prep course (20 hrs, $400) if you are planning to "become a private bank" and invest in debt.I also see the loan processing course...
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I've been working in commercial lending (business loans and commercial real estate) for a few years, and am now entering the residential real estate financing space.This is relatively new for me, but I assume the proc...
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Hey everyone,I passed my national loan originator exam with an 85% and now I have to take the California test. It was easy to study for the national exam because there are tons of books and online tests. I can't see...
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Hey BP,I am negotiating on a 4-plex where the seller is asking 319K and I need to get it to at least 280-290K to start making sense. I was amazed to find out that he paid 64K for it in 2013. Factoring in 6 years worth...
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Long story short, QI I had hired conveniently couldn't match the wire I had sent to his apparently commingled account or so he alleged. After I got the FBI involved the QI suddenly became more cooperative and less vag...
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Ran across FasterFunds lending where they defer paying origination fees upfront and make it payable as part of the payoff. This is the only Hard Money Lender I see do this as this helps investors commit their money to...