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Hi BP,This question goes out to all the Texas mortgage brokers and bankers out there. I have a duplex in Austin Texas that I would like to leverage for the purchase of another property. I lived in the duplex for one...
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I’m in the process of buying my first rental property. My credit union is offering 3.1% on an15 year while another lender is offering 4.87% on an 30 year for investment properties. I’m 46 and aim to retire by 65. With...
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Hi everyone, I started investing in Cleveland about a year and a half ago and have acquired 6 LTRs (SFH and MFH) using mainly the BRRRR method in C areas. I've done fairly big renovations where in most cases, Im repla...
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Just got a call from a tenant parent and the January electric heat bill was $1100. In past years the highest it went was $800. The heat is all electric baseboard with one room with under floor heating on slab and o...
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PART 1: INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE, the Why, the Where, the What, the How, and the How Much:
In mid-2017 my wife and I decided to go back to what had been one of our passions in the mid-90's, the ownership and manageme...