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Hello everyone,
Since I have been on this site , I've been hearing one of the important things to do when starting out is to know your Market. My question is what does that mean exactly. Am I suppose to compare mortga...
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Looks like financial regulators have closed Silicon Valley Bank. This bank has high exposure to tech & venture capital, however I was surprised to see this headline so soon. I have seen several articles stating th...
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Hello everyone!I have recently been in contact with a local real estate investor who's been investing for over 25 years. He agreed to take me in as an apprentice. I asked him that I would like to get into real estate ...
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I've been hearing on the BP Podcast that every investor should house-hack at least one house per year. I assume this is a general guideline as circumstances may prevent that. And that's what my question is regarding.....
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About a 18 months ago I put a property under contract and assigned it to a private money lender who purchased it cash. He also paid for the rehab.
The plan was to rehab it buy it with traditional financing and rent i...
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Hi All,I purchased my primarily resident about 5 years ago, and thanks to the housing market in NY going up like crazy, I have a pretty big chunk of equity on it. I can take up to $200+K of HELOC at approximately 5% ...
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we are talking to someone we know about buying his inherited property.we just did a title search, it has a lot of taxes owed. something else I didn't think about, it shares a common walkway with other houses. (in a r...
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The “SJR 60” went into effect January 1, 2018 and while we could spend all day on the language there were 3 really important changes to Texas Home Equity Laws because of this legislation passing. This is just for Tex...
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Hi All,Perhaps a silly question for the group but I wanted to get everyone's take on the impact of having your credit run. Obviously a big part of investing is working with different lenders and each one needs to run ...
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Hi everyone. Looking to get some help with a possible multi unit purchase. The property has a small sfh and 3 duplex units on it with land to expand in future. The taxes are about 4900 per year and insurance is 4000. ...