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Found a duplex I want to place my first ever offer on. I currently am a co signer on my personal residence so I'm technically not a first time home buyer. I read in here somewhere there is a first time borrower loan ...
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Besides the point of not doing business with family...I'm purchasing a house for my mom who will pay me rent. To get a better interest rate and rate on property taxes she has offered to be on the mortgage and deed. Ag...
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Hello,Just turned down 4 guys looking to rent a 4 bed place from me(in Massachusetts). Two of them had really light income, one of whom also had a vehicle repossession on his credit. They asked me to consider co signe...
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I currently live in a SFH have a conventional mortgage.My father and I are hoping to team up and purchase a duplex together that we have our eye on.I will rent out my SH and move into the duplex to get us an owner occ...
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Hey everyone, I was just wondering if any of you knew if there could be a cosigner on the Va loan who wasn't a veteran. I'm trying to weigh the options but didn't know the answer to this one. Thanks in advance for any...
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Got this email today. What do you guys think? We are getting ready to close on a short sale of our house. Four months ago we started renting a house for $1,100 from a private landlord that scammed us out of so much mo...
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Hello all, An applicant has explained that she has no credit (not bad credit), she and her husband started a business 6 months ago so they don't have tax returns. I'm trying to figure out what to do with this since I...
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Hello BP,
I'm soon to close on a single family house thanks to my mentor. For my next step I've been thinking about house hacking a 4-plex during college, which I'll be entering this fall. My main concern is excessiv...
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I'm self employed with over $200,000 equity across three rental properties, two of which were previous house-hacks. I quit my job to start flipping couches while my wife and I travel in search of our next house-hack. ...
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I have a potential tenant with 2 kids interested in my place and at first I wasn't interested and said most likely he wouldn't qualify, but he said his parents would have no problem being a co-signer/guarantor. He cla...