With rates 6.5%-7%, especially for investment properties right now, I just read about assumable mortgages where you simply take over the mortgage of the seller when you buy the property. How does this work? Can anyone...

Pennsylvania has proven to be a difficult place for HML to do business with new clients, specifically Philadelphia and some surrounds counties.

Deeds are not registered in some cases up to 90 days making title insura...

Hi just read a recent article on IBD regarding HUD looking to enforce equality among all renters - even ones with criminal records. I'm a new landlord so my experience is < 3 months of doing this. For those of you ...

Has any rehabber used a self directed IRA for rehabbing houses? How do you handle the profit. Does it have to go back into the IRA which would seem to defeat the purpose as you couldn't make any money to live off. If ...

This may be a basic question -- but I don't know the answer.

I have a house in another state that I used to live in. We moved, but kept the house because we had a 2.625% loan on it -- and there was a possib...

Hi friends,I am a newbie real estate investor, and bought my first property in June 2023. Decent deal, and we worked to put a good tenant in ASAP. We used Zillow Rental Manager's (ZRM) in-built screening features to s...

For the past 8 months, tax professionals have been studying Section 199A (the 20% pass-through business deduction) and trying to position their clients to best be able to maximize their deduction.  However, we have be...

Purchased a property March of 2019. Previous owner had homeowners, senior and senior freeze, as reflected in the 1st half 2018 property tax bill.At closing I was credited 2nd half of 2018 property taxes based on all t...

When making an offer on a FSBO, can you still use realtor forms if there is no lisensed agent involved, or can only a RE agent use those forms? Will lenders accept nonstandard forms?

A new tenant, adult mother who's taking care of her adult son (he has some medical issues) applied for one of my apartments in Connecticut. She is on Section 8, which I didn't mind since in Connecticut, it's been pret...