i want to buy a commercial duplex and put down 20%, do i have to put up my personal house as collateral or as a personal guarantee to get the mortgage?

I'm a newbie investor thinking about refinancing my personal house for a down payment on an apartment! Would this be a good idea?

I have researched this issue and am aware of the tax disadvantages, and there is no mortgage, ie: no "due on sale" clause, and my state only has 10k in homestead exception.  My goal would be to protect my home from pe...

Hey everyone,I just graduated from tOSU and am looking to move out of my dinky campus area apartment and purchase a house. Along side that I'm wanting to get in to the buy and hold rental game in a few ~B- neighborhoo...

So I bought myself a 3 bed 2 bath 1200 sq ft house in the beginning of this year, but It is just me in the house since I live alone. I've been looking at ways to save money so that I can build up my capital, and I cam...

Hi All, hoping for your directional feedback here. Early 40s, single/live alone, employed in technology, work from home, no debt aside from auto-loan. Sold my first personal home a year ago and moved into a luxury ren...

I'm a newbie investor thinking about refinancing my personal house for a down payment on an apartment! Would this be a good idea?

I'll try to make this as brief as possible. In about 10 months my wife and I plan on moving. We arn't sure what to do with our current primary residence.

It's in a very desirable middle-upper middle class neighbo...

Hello everyone! I don't have a lot of money saved in the bank, but I had thought about either refinancing my personal house and taking the money out of it, or refinance and then getting a HELOC to get started on buyin...

I’m looking to buy my own personal house but I would like to buy big enough to be able to rent out the rooms. This will be my first house. So I am wondering if this a good or bad idea. And if so how to go about it. Th...