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Hello,If you’re qualifying as a real estate professional based on managing apartments that you own, can you count hours spent doing due diligence on future properties? For example activities such as searching for futu...
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Running into a situation… we own home worth 1.3 mil and owe 650k on it. Would really like a HELOC but we also rent out two rooms short term rental in it to cover the mortgage and add to our income.
Multiple banks wo...
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Looking to build a rental portfolio. I have my primary home with about $235,000 worth of equity. My plan/idea was to open a HELOC and start using the funds to purchase duplexes, triplexes, etc and put 20% down using t...
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I have an opportunity to buy my moms house for a great price, we just spent $20,000 fixing it up and it's rent ready. The problem is I want to purchase my primary residence home in the next few months. My debt to inco...
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I have Section 8 rentals in two counties in the Baltimore area and I was surprised to learn that the counties have different standards for what counts as a bedroom. I had assumed that HUD issued the guidelines on bas...
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My husband is working full time. I'm housewife taking care of our child and rental properties.We have 5 SFR and one apartment building out of state, managed by PM. We bought the apartment building vacant last year an...
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Hi All,
Looking for advice on the next steps regarding loans. We maxed out at 10 personal loans, with one title that is free and clear. Will anyone give an 11th personal loan? Do we need to switch to commercial loans...
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Hey guys, Just wanted leave a little 'bread-crumb' trail here of what my experience was like taking an online course, and passing the exam. Who I went with for the 'course': I took a self-paced licensing course for Vi...
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Me and my brother have about 95 000 dollars saved and really want to get into real estate. So we did some quick counting and are stuck on how the hell you make money on real estate?im going to count this in swedish nu...
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Lots of new people to real estate are always like. What should I do? fix, flip, wholesale, rent, invest, sandwich lease, CFD,..... ahhhhh! What to do?!
CALL A BANKER STEP#1.
Just took my own advice. Wouldn't the wor...