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I haven't made my first deal yet, but I found this AMAZING house. Okay it's an awful house, nearly 100 years old. But I can pay cash for it and it already has 100% occupancy. I'd have said cash back in 4 years...OK...
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I am evaluating multi-family purchases for a 1031 exchange ( I sold my office and now planning to exchange into multi-family). There is a property that otherwise "looks good to me on paper" for a portion of my exchang...
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Hello,I have invested before but Los Angeles is new to us. Somehow on our first trip we found ourselves a "highly motivated" Seller and a gorgeous SFR house in Studio City. Before I knew it, we were in contract. We h...
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ENGLISH Mensa Invitational - for lexophilesThe Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and sup...
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Being new at lending, I come across an interesting Opp.Client according to county records buys and owns a home worth 90,000, paid 35000 and has a 25000.00 homestead exemption, making taxes very cheap. He has no mortga...
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Hi, I became interested in this forum by watching YouTube, and am sticking my toe in the water so to speak. My currently house goal is centered around the partial renovation of a 1926 house. This is presently my pr...
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Hey All,
I currently live in Delaware where I pay a modest amount of taxes. I own the property here and will be renting it out during the coming months.
The house in buying is a duplex in the Philadelphia, and I wa...
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Hello, we are going to use a VA loan for a 330k duplex to owner occupy and rent the other half. However, the possibility exists that we may inherit (not from death, just very generous in laws) a single family home, an...
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3 BR/2.5 BA condo. The cap rate and cash on cash return I am calculating is negative. Using a vacancy of 8.3%. My loan to value is 73%. I am being very conservative with my numbers (thinking of difficult scenarios)...
I'm in a bit of a conundrum. My wife and I purchased 10 acres in Rockford, MI back in January of 2021. We closed on a construction loan to build a 5000+ square foot barndominium. However, we picked the wrong contracto...