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Sharon Smith Or is it an honor to pay the taxes?
31 July 2009 | 70 replies

Call me a patriotic fool but this is one great country and I often think it's but luck of the draw I was born into it. Happy to pay.
Honor might be pushing it.....
Sharon in Milwaukee

Case Stiglbauer Not Married but want to co-own rental
2 April 2019 | 22 replies

Hopefully a new(ish) topic. My partner and I have been together ten years. We’ve been living together for 6 or so, financed a car together, and have intertwined finances. We want to buy our first rental property, but ...

Luc M. What Price for This Loan?
24 August 2011 | 11 replies

So my first oppportunity to make a HML fell through as the buyer lost the house to a higher bidder at the last moment. Here is another loan request I received:

Amount of Loan: $100k
Buyer Cash-in: $38k
Property Purc...

Account Closed My nightmare! Issue after issue!
26 August 2015 | 32 replies

I thought it's about time I share this bad experience so others can learn from it. I bought a house from a turnkey provider that had a bad inspection. The provider sent me pictures of the things he said got fixed an...

Paul T. Option to purchase counting as claim of ownership
10 August 2018 | 18 replies

I have been very interested in the lease option investment strategy lately, but when I spoke with my local attorney, a serious risk surfaced that I want to understand more. The risk is on the tenant buyer end (you doi...

Fern Jard Tax issues in Hard Money Lending
15 May 2021 | 31 replies

Hi Guys,

Brand new here, with a question:

Can hard money lending be considered a small business, where expenses can be deducted -- just like any other business? I thought this was a given until I started reading ab...

Bryan Hancock UDirect Self-Directed IRA Experiences
20 December 2018 | 37 replies

We recently started requesting our investors look at UDirect:

UDirect

for their SDIRA investments. We have had a positive experience with them so far. Has anyone else dealt with these folks? If so, what was your ...

Paul De Luca Anyone else getting fraudulent applications?
22 November 2022 | 21 replies

I have a unit listed for rent in Chicago and I've received several highly suspect or fraudulent applications. Evidence indicating fraudulent applications includes:
-mailing addresses that don't match applicant's empl...

Account Closed Buying Foreclosures - Subject To & Lease Options
23 October 2022 | 23 replies

When you are considering buying pre-foreclosures (that's what they are called before the auction) you have to have some money to bring the loan current, give moving money to the seller, pay closing costs and make paym...