Hi Everyone, my name is Josh Gwaltney. I am a rookie when it comes to real estate investing and looking for some advice!I have found my first property (quicker than expected). It will be a fix and flip. I have 5 other...
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I have just found tenants to rent my primary residence in the Hartford, CT area. Before I sign the lease with them, a friend from St Louis, MO mentioned that I might need to have an occupancy inspection. This is not a...
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I am beginning to do some single-family buy-and-hold investing in the Denver / Boulder area, and want to make sure I can find lenders who can finance them based on their rental income (usually debt coverage ratio) rat...
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Hi All! I am a 25 year old new investor who just purchased her first duplex out of state a month ago. I am looking for ways to buy another with less than 20% down? Can you get any kind of conventional loan, not owner ...
Hey all.. if you had at least 12 to 15 properties scheduled for remodeling/fixup, I am hearing others say they typically take out some sort of builders and general liability insurance to cover things like vandalism, d...
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1) Tax Advantages - Income from Real Estate provides the ability to make money at lower effective tax rates through the use of depreciation and loopholes that a regular employee does not have access to. If I'm workin...
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Hi! We're thing about requiring that tenants buy renter's insurance in order to rent one of the 300 homes that we own. Does anyone know of a good insurance carrier that we could recommend to tenants? I'm specifical...
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Hi!If you had to guess which properties in this picture was distressed, which one would it be?The one with all the junk in the back yard!I may have gotten lucky so I did a reverse address search via google maps. I can...
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Hello all! I don’t understand how on the podcasts and other investors keep talking about this 80% LTV helocs. As a rental property I have called a couple dozen banks and either they don’t finance rental properties or...
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Hello everyone,I'm a brand new investor in the Richmond, Virginia area and planning to buy my first home this year. The idea is to find a small multi-family and house hack it. My wife and I qualify for a first time ho...