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I have a potential borrower asking for a HML. Our good friend and mentor Jay Hinrichs suggested using the 3 C's for underwriting: character of the borrower, capacity to repay the loan, and of course, the collateral.He...
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Hello All!Going to close on my first duplex at the end of June! Woohoo!! Finally going to be entering in the ranks of you guys :DI know I still have a couple months before we even move in, but I want to start working ...
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I have acquired a piece of property that has an existing cell tower on it. The previous owner had already sold the lease about 10 years ago for a lump sum payment. I have requested a copy of the lease. From what I und...
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Hi, I want to buy my first investment property, and I'm trying to learn all I can about how to use my own money. I'm looking into setting up a self directed IRA, that I can manage through my LLC, but it's proving very...
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A recent forum discussion talked about how an investor's scope of work said to include "EVERYTHING" in their proposal to 'gut the property, buy materials and rehab per plan.' Long story short, the contractor did not ...
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Hi everyone,I have an interesting question that I am not sure if I am over thinking and would really appreciate some feedback on. I am a licensed broker in California, and will be doing my second round of direct mail ...
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Hi all,Does anyone have experience with house splitting/house hacking?My wife and I are thinking about splitting a house, living in half and renting the other half as a STR.We are currently living in South Florida and...
I have a seller call me that have a house where one spouse was award the house in a divorce degree a number of years ago and and never went to the trouble of getting the former spouse off the deed now they want to sel...
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I found your club through myspace.com. I spent the better part of the day reading through threads and posts of which I found very informative. However, I did not find anything about starting a leasing company or creat...
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I would like to hear from long time rental property investors what things you believe are important in a homeowners insurance policy? What specific item coverage on the policy should be increased or decreased to have ...