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Veteran from Columbus, Ohio Getting StartedHi everyone, my name is Cole Ruoff and I have zero experience with real estate. I’m from rural, Ohio and reside in central, Ohio. I am a graphic designer for a large company ...
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Hello, my wife and I are about 10 years from retirement from our full-time jobs. Our real estate goal is buy-and-hold rentals to provide partial income replacement upon retirement.We currently live in a SFH with good...
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Hi, I posted quite a bit a year back or so about my interesting situation. I lived in Japan for 20 years and was going to start building my USA based portfolio from Japan. I now actually live in Colorado full time and...
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Hi BP. This is my first post. I have seen a couple questions similar to this but can't find the exact one so I'll go ahead and ask it:I'm looking at making my second rental purchase for about $60k, which with tradit...
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Good afternoon everyone, I am a new real estate investor in the Milledgeville, Ga area with one single family residence in my portfolio while also owning my separate primary residence. My rental property was initially...
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I pulled the equity out of my primary (70k) to use as down payment for my 2nd rental property, my finance guy wants me to get a HELOC to have available just in case, I have since had to change jobs so have to wait til...
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I am located in south Florida, having hard time finding good HELOCs on rental properties
-- PenFed: 80 LTV, not allow borrower to own more than 3 properties including primary home
-- TD Bank: 75 LTV, not allow borro...
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Since my #1 goal in real estate investing is to _________________, I focus on buying and holding as my primary strategy of investing.
Since my #1 goal in real estate investing is to _________________, I focus on fli...
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Being fairly new to real estate investing I have an odd question...
Are there certain terms or jargon used to describe the steps/levels/scenarios below?
1. Paying for your own mortgage on primary residence and your ...
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Good morning investors,I'm looking to buy a property in the South FL area and need to bounce some ideas against you guys. The root need comes because I need to bring my mom closer to me and Im looking for a way to mak...