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Hi! I'm looking for a $10-$12k personal loan to fix up my house before I sell it later this year. I only put 5% down and it's been a year and a half, so any equity loans are probably out of play.I'm a handyman and I a...
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How does one find an investor to back them, I have a very solid idea of what I want to do, but no capital. Need help and advice.
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Is it a bad thing if both the MSA and submarket are both growing in population, but the submarket is not growing as rapidly as MSA as a whole ?For example, from 2010-2017, Oklahoma City MSA's population growth is 13.3...
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I have finished reading The ABC's of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy. In his book, as well as in the BP podcast he is in, he discusses that the preliminary research of any real estate investment isn't a proper...
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We purchased our first Investment property, and it was a decent 4 unit deal. The seller, a realtor, was asking $99K, we offered $80K, and landed on $86K. Marker value was ~$108K. After our repairs and improvements,...
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I am seriously considering buying a property that is basically in the middle of one of the campuses of our area's largest university. The home isn't located in the busiest part of the campus, which is downtown. It's m...
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Hello,I am looking to start flipping homes and adding rental properties in the near future. I will be working with a hard money lender who requires and LLC or Corp. After reading about LLC's I'm a little confused abou...
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I had the appraiser at my home today as part of the refinance from 4.375% to 3.0%. He said a ton of people are refinancing right now. I asked the question if valuations are heading downhill yet, he said not that he wa...
Once again Mortgage Backed Bonds (Securities) are the only thing holding the housing market together. Why is this a big deal?
1. In 2008 the problem was sub-prime mortgages "guaranteed" by MBS, Mortgage Backed Secu...
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sense it seems like I will be focusing on small cities and towns, I thought it may be a good idea to get an idea of how well a community could survive another financial upset. I am thinking that two prime indicators w...