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Question for the BP populous:Situation - My wife and I recently purchased an off-market SFR with tenants in place. During the appraisal process for the mortgage, it was identified that the home was actually 218 sq ft ...
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I have a tenant reported the heating system was not working. So I scheduled an appointment with a handyman to check. But before the handyman came in, the tenant reported they don't need to fix it because they started ...
Hi everyone, I recently purchased my first home using my first time home buyers getting the 3.5% down. I lived in it for a few months and then decided to move in with family for personal reasons. since then I have bee...
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Hi BP community,
I'm seeking a Home Equity Loan provider in CA so I can utilize the HEL to payoff our HELOC (30 year, fixed rate at 6.5% with a 10 year interest only timeframe before paydown). I don't want to do a ca...
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Hello,New to all things real estate and may have a stupid question. Would it be a bad idea to cash-out refinance my own home that I live in? I understand that it would reset my loan, but I’m wondering if this would be...
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Please let me know if this needs to be moved / posted elsewhere and I'll get right on it, thanks!I've been registered here for a couple of weeks, and have verified my email address (even get the confirmation message o...
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Okay - so I've flipped about 50 houses, 90% actually made a profit. Recently however, I've had three deals in a row fall on their head and taken a near career ending loss (six figures between the three). I admit, I ...
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Hey All,
Have a quick question. So we have a rental property (Our first) we rented to two girls that were recently divorced. Now 6months into a 12month one of the girls moved out and the other one moved her boyfri...
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Does anybody here use ARMs for buy and hold rentals (not flips) that they expect to hold for more than 3-4 years as income properties?
Is this too much tempting fate on the 50% rule?
If you are using ARMs, are you p...
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Dear community members - I am rehabbing a house which has an old electric panel. The system is working fine. Should i upgrade the panel? The house after Rehab should be around 139K.I would appreciate any suggestion / ...