Hello,I'm starting out in real estate and have been considering doing a house hack in a multi-family unit. However, the more I learn about real estate the worse this idea seems. My understanding is that the golden sta...

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Here is the scenario. An investment property (residential-rental) that would be 1031 into a bigger more expensive residential property. Part of the property would be used as a primary residence and part as a...

Hello, I have a question about fix and flipping houses. I know that out of the many relationships you can achieve with a lender, two are: equity partner and taking a loan from them. Assuming that your lender isn't ins...

Firstly, I want to share that my family recently inherited a house in San Francisco that we are renovating of which my father is leading the project. This event acted as the impetus of my new-found enthusiasm for real...

I am curious to get some opinions on rooming houses. (A single house, rented per room /w shared kitchen/bath) Typically D or C occupants. Rented month to month. Apparently no vacancy in the property I'm looking at and...

Hi All -Must an FHA loan be one of your first 4 mortgages or is there no relevant restriction? To put it another way, can a 5th+ mortgage be an FHA loan? Are there any other relevant considerations surrounding the num...

I have a 90 year old friend with a triplex. A few years ago, a pipe broke in the upstairs. She hired a family member to fix it but ran out of insurance money before he could complete it. Now the building is sitting th...

Hello! My mother-in-law passed away 8 years ago and left us (wife and her brother) a house at the beach.  She did not leave a will and my brother-in-law was named executor of her estate.  He has left the property in h...

I bought my first home with an FHA loan. It was a modest 157k house, but I only make about 43k a year, plus I have about 26k in student loans and a 14k car loan, so my DTI is pretty tapped (I'm undoing and re-educated...

GM!Have a one year lease with my tenant (which is their first year of tenancy) and want them to vacate as I've decided to sell my property. There is still 5 months to go but I want them to leave in spring (April) so I...