Hi Everyone, My wife and I are attempting to get a HELOC for a 2nd home. The broker we went with brought down the LTV to 75% as they said it is considered a rental property and not a 2nd home since we don't own the ho...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence wholesale investment.
Purchase price: $137,500
Cash invested: $1,500
Sale price: $155,000
Helped a friend stop a foreclosure on her Mother's home and reco...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment.
Purchase price: $95,000
Cash invested: $25,000
House went to tax lien auction, homeowner was going to be homeless with no money. We...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Malmstrom A F B.
Purchase price: $212,000
Cash invested: $46,000
Sale price: $325,000
Found a great 2013 SFR in an A class su...
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I purchased my home in 2006 because its in a quiet dead end cul de sac. The past 2 years a few of the homes around me have gone up for rent and brought in "interesting" people.
Unfortunately the people next door t...
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I am a newbie looking for my first deal (a duplex, triplex or fourplex), and I had the epiphony last week that every time I buy a home to live in, I should be applying the same strategies used on real estate investing...
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Hello BiggerPockets community! We’re Steve and Jordyn Smith residing in Southern California. We’ve been married for six years and are looking to move away from our monotonous lifestyle revolving around work. Our two ...
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Hi,I'm looking at building a casita or in-law house on my primary residence. We have a problem with the front yard area that needs work/landscaping. But instead of spending 20-30K for landscaping, I thought why no...
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I've been researching pre-foreclosures in my area for quite some time. I spend hours on the county site seeing which properties have had NEDs recorded, comparing original loan amount vs owed amount vs EMV. There was o...
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For tax purposes, is it better to open an LLC in the state I’m investing in (Florida) or the state I live in (California)? I’m finding some lenders want an LLC to lend to. Is there any benefit to my liability to have ...