Understanding a Mortgage Appraisal - Part 1
The first thing to understand is appraisals are not all the same or equal. In fact, each appraisal is unique to the needs of the specific client.
Mortgage Appraisals are...
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I’m currently in contract on a duplex in the 95824 zip code near Fruitridge and Stockton Blvd. Curious if any Sacramento investors or property managers have any thoughts on this area or feel particularly bullish / bea...
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Greetings BP family,I recently passed my SAFE Act exam and am ready to begin building my book of business as a mortgage loan officer / originator in Virginia!My question for experienced MLO's out there is, what are so...
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Hi BP,
I joined recently and this place is so helpful. I’m a newbie to real estate investing and currently living in Fremont,CA. Because of COVID, I’m working from home for the past year, and most possibly I would be...
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Hi Folks,I've been looking at communities surrounding my area (Portland and SW Washington) and considering investing there for a buy and hold strategy. I am wondering, though, if I should be excluding any of them by ...
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Listening to podcasts and reading articles, etc. it's clear that investing in real estate while simultaneously holding a full-time job is possible and common. But I'd like to target this question to a more narrow popu...
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If this has been well answered elsewhere please point me there, I couldn’t find it.If I’m look at small mf deals that require more than one additional partner, so in my area more than $500,000 per say. These would be ...
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Congress, US Treasury, and the IRS have been involved in a flurry of activity at year end. Congress passed the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act which is effectively a tax extender bill, and then also pas...
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Hello BP! We moved in Austin one year ago and was shocked how big SFH demand is! Almost every house has multiple offers, Even not that pretty ones :) so the question is: how long will that craze continue ( in your opi...
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Below I will give you my portfolio and some of my strategies we are considering for the future. Would love any and all input on how you would allocate money to best set your self up if you were in our shoes. To start ...