Scott Trench
More Riffing on Mortgage Rates (I think they will keep ticking up!)
As we enter 2H 2023 and head into 2024, I expect mortgage rates will increase and eclipse 8% on average. First, I expect the federal funds rate to rise one more time by 25 bps, to continue to rise before settling in w...
Ansel Harris
FREDDIE MAC PREDICTS BEST HOUSING YEAR IN A DECADE.
just wanted to share with everyone.Is Housing Poised to Return to Pre-Crisis Glory?The recent predictions from analysts of a dark year for housing based on tight inventory combined with rapid home price appreciation a...
Rebecca Belnap
The Feds Raised the rate today
Just got an email that the fed raised the rate by .25 today. That was expected. What wasn't expected is that instead of planning to do 2 more increases in 2017, they said in the meeting that they are planning 3. I'...
Corie Carpentier
TO SELL OR NOT TO SELL
I have a rental property that we bought new in 2017, its a little over 1800 sqft, we bought it for about $235k. We lived in it the first year, then bought a house to do a live in flip. We now owe $185k on the house. O...
Kim T.
raising rents when you are below market
My rental condo is located in a very competitive rental market, just outside San Francisco, Ca. The town, Albany, does niot have rent control. I have an easy time finding tenants with no vacancy time between them, an...
Jamie S.
Best way to determine basis of a rental property conversion?
I need help figuring out how to determine the basis for a rental property. I purchased and lived in the property for a number of years and did a lot of renovations. I also built a garage apartment that I am now rent...
Sarah Curtis
To sell or not to sell
My husband and I own a fourplex that cash flows extremely well. We both work full time for a property management company, and always wanted to own real estate of our own for the purpose of building wealth, having fina...
Mike Sedlacek
New guy here from upstate NY
I started my real estate investing when I graduated from college at the age of 22. When I finished college I didn't want to move back to my parents house so I purchased a 6 family and rehab one unite for myself to liv...
William Costello
Syndication Investing During a Recession
In your opinion, how has syndication investing changed during Covid times?
AJ Wong
Could massive mortgage rate drop supercharge refinances and DSCR investments?
The FED left interest rates unchanged today and indicated that they are likely to begin cutting several times in the coming year. The mortgage market has responded with one of the largest daily rate drops in my two de...