You get a hard money investor willing to loan you $125k at 10% for a 1 year term & origination fee of 1%. Doesn't that mean that within the first month you need to pony up 1.25k for the origination fee & about...

Hello!I recently heard from a friend that he managed to buy a property with minimal upfront costs. According to him, he utilized a strategy called owner financing, where he financed a portion of the property's purchas...

I've been watching videos and reading books on multi family investing. But I just don't understand why when I see them analyzing their annual debt payment, they just multiply the interest percentage by the amount borr...

Hello everyone, this is my first post on the bigger pockets forum and I’m excited to get started. I have a question regarding myself about to be a first time home buyer and renting out the other bedroom or bedrooms to...

Here are the most common fears and misconceptions I hear when people talk about house hacking. 
Myth: It takes a lot of money to buy a house.
One of the biggest myths about buying a home is that it requires a lot of...

Please check out this link and see if this is a good deal. I have done some calculations with this online tool to the left of the forum, but I just need to know if what I see is right. I will save any info I have u...

Hi I am new to commercial loans and I was wondering if i could get some help telling me if these numbers look ok. A little background, we went the commercial route because we are running into DTI issues. THE NUMBERS:L...

One of my agents suggested that I apply for a USDA loan to finance my first property. It would be for a suburban area, therefore I could apply for it. Other than the common type of loans (FHA, and conventional) I don’...

Could someone explain to me what a balloon mortgage is, and if anyone in today's world creates them.

I have been searching around for a couple months in attempt to find my first rental property to buy, and have found a foreclosure that I think has a lot of potential. However, the listing says:"Water and heating syste...