Eric Sato
Just moved back to USA - what comes first (STR or my own personal residence)
Hi, I posted quite a bit a year back or so about my interesting situation. I lived in Japan for 20 years and was going to start building my USA based portfolio from Japan. I now actually live in Colorado full time and...
Justin Knighten
Debt to income ratio won't allow us to qualify for conventional.
Greetings,My wife and I purchased our first rental this spring with conventional financing. It's occupied and doing fine. I've talked to our mortgage broker about securing a loan for a second property, and according...
Amol K.
Do I really need my LLC?
I have a few rental properties, all financed via conventional mortgages in my own name, and property titles also in my own name. I also have an LLC.
When I rent out these properties, the rental contract is between th...
Andy Zapata
First-Time Flip Financing Advice
My wife and I have rehabbed (mostly cosmetic) both of the properties we have purchased. They were both live-able and for our primary residences at the time so we used conventional financing. We enjoyed the process, ke...
James O. Coker II
House Hacking with the VA Loan
Hi All,
I am a newbie to BiggerPockets and am interested in using my VA loan (and/or VA renovation loan) to do a house hack in Miami in late 2022. I am writing to ask for advice from those in the forum who have done ...
Austin Bright
How to calculate Debt to Income
Below is a snap shot of a P&L on a potential investment property. How exactly is D/I calculated. I'm confusedIs it PITI/(.75*2400)=(1246/1800) which is 69%? Is the D/I something else?
Marty Sheehan
House Hacking in Norfolk, Virginia
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Norfolk.
Purchase price: $300,000
Cash invested: $2,300
Used a VA loan to acquire a rental property close to military bases and t...
Rob Sasser
Best way to buy property from my self, kind of.......
I recently purchased a sfr with cash through my s-corp. I am an industrial machinery contractor and had enough cash saved up in my business account to do this. I bought with cash this way so I could act fast and try ...
Jonathan Johnson
VA Loan - Buy and Hold 4-unit multi-family.
Investment Info:
Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $150,000
Cash invested: $15,000
4-unit apartment house. One 2br, Two 1br, and an efficiency apartment downst...
Shankar M.
Request guidance reg LLC or something else
Myself and my friend want to buy one investment property. Accountant advised us to form LLC so as to reduce the liability and protect our existing assets against any unforeseen events. When we were about to create the...