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Quick question as a first time home buyer, I currently applied for a new credit card and I am looking to buy a house very soon (within the next 3 months). Before this new CC, I had a credit score over 700, will this ...
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Regardless of your political views, I think this is a discussion worth having. It was briefly discussed on the last BP podcast, but I wanted to open this up to the community. Like him or not, Bernie has a lot of tract...
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I have a friend that I work with that currently owns a duplex. When I first met and we started talking about real estate, he told about a duplex that he currently owns. He bought it for $40k about 5 years ago from a...
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I will have about $200,000 in equity after closing my refinance. I plan to apply for a HELOC and use a portion of it as a down payment/closing cost in acquiring a new home. How will applying for a HELOC right after cl...
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Morning BiggerPockets world.I am currently on the first R and trying to plan my renovation in a way that maximizes my appraisal ( as expected)...I have the opportunity to save about a grand on my rehab by having a use...
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I've seen some conversations on BP recently regarding balloon payments, refinancing, and interest rates, so I thought I'd share a short article I wrote for my firm regarding forward commitments and how they vary betwe...
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We own a townhouse in Indiana. it is a 50/50 partnership with a friend/colleague. We have been in the process of selling it. It was to close last month (now delayed to this weekend) but during the process, the titl...
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Hello everyone im looking to refinance my primary residence to lower my payment. Would it be wise to do so with the yield curve being inverted? Will it affect me if recession hits?
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I'm trying to figure out how to calculate what my maximum total purchasing power is on a OO (house hack) 4 plex.
I have no consumer debt of any kind with one outstanding mortgage of approx. 87k on a cash flow positi...
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first I would like to state I'm new to the site and so far I really like it. I will write a intro blog very soon about me and my basic plan to start.The immediate question I need information about, is my father is an ...