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I live in the Northern Virginia area where most of the properties have about a $3,000 a month mortgage. My partner and I are looking to buy our first property soon and we plan to house hack it for a year. I think ab...
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Hello, I am new to real estate / bigger pockets / etc. I wanted to ask: How much is a good starting capital for a new investor to start investing in a long term BRRRR strategy? $50,000? $75,000? I am currently making ...
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Hi all! This is my first time posting here, and I am “getting my ducks in a row.”
I am married to a contractor and I am pretty good at design and also throwing shingles and swingin a hammer lol, so I would like to ...
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Hello, I am buying my next property by the end of this year 2019. We don't have much income around (95k after tax). My question is in order to obtain a high loan amount aside from have a good debt to income ratio and ...
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I'm struggling to see how I can reasonably leverage my self-directed IRA money in real estate investing. The non-recourse loan requirements of high interest, shorter term (max 20 years), 60% maximum financing, and req...
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Hi all,
I just joined the community and I'm looking forward to learning from people and hopefully helping out some others as I gain experience.
I'm looking to buy a primary residence as well as a separate investment...
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I am looking to acquire a MHP but running into issues give them the loan size being below $1mil. Does anyone have any bank recommendations? Appreciate it
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Hey BP,I am in a market in Canada. Most of the investors here do the same thing, they buy apartments, get all the tenants out, make heavy renovations, rent out and re-finance or sell. It's coined 'optimization' here.I...
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Hi,
Recently had to liquidate a bunch of stock so sitting on a good amount of cash that needs reinvesting. New to real estate and learning a lot here and off line. There seems to be good returns on both SFH and MFH...
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Thanks in advance for any input. I am new to real estate investing in general. I did years ago have a real estate license but have never owned any kind of investment property. I have around 100K in cash alloc...