Lawrence E. Hopkins
Funding for Investment Properties
What are the most important factors to consider when sourcing either private funding and/or hard money funding? Price, reliability, etc???
Gulliver R.
Getting a new job and getting a pre-approval
Hi All,So I just got a pre approval for a home loan, but I might be getting a new job soon. I told my lender and he said I would lose the pre approval because he said he needs two years of income history from the curr...
Waylon Zook
Hard money lender for personal residence
I have a client the is receiving a large insurance settlement from a work injury in several payments. Credit is not good and no verifiable work history. Would it be possible to put 50k down on a 200k home and use a ha...
Alex Ng
Does 1 year of 1099 form enough for an FHA 203k or a Homestyle loan?
I'm looking to buy a fixer duplex in order to rehab and househack. I only have one 1099 form. Would lenders make an exception with this? What can I do in order to qualify?
Simon Tamm
Partnership Search
I'm looking to buy a business I work for which has an on-site apartment (which I currently rent) connected to the reception area and live there, minding the shop when not working at my day job as a retail assistant ma...
Gary A.
How do I Find Property Details for Research in Georgia?
Hi,I'm looking to do more in-depth research on properties for my purchases. I'm specifically looking to find the owners, mailing addresses, purchase and loan history, tax info, etc.In California I use PropertyRadar wh...
Miguel Biberos
Need some advice to make this happen
I been having two or three seasonal jobs for a few years. Now I only have one seasonal job as a volunteer wild land firefighter. I have about 100k in equity in my home. I'm trying to BRRR in California and I have a ...
Joshua Zapin
HUD Fair Market Rents: How to read the Data
I have a (potentially stupid) question about read the data HUD provides on Fair Market Rents (FMR) data you can get from https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.htmlIf you download FMR History 1983 - Present: All ...
Colleen Ross
Assistance Animals under Fair Housing Act
Hi Bigger Pockets. I have a question regarding assistance animals under the Fair Housing Act. We are advertising our rental property and just received an inquiry from someone with a service animal. Our policy is no...
Bienes Raices
Child support as a form of income?
I just met with a woman at the rental. Her source of income was SSI + child support. As it turns out, they did not meet my minimum income requirement (3X monthly rent), so they didn't apply.
I've dealt with SSI befo...