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I'm about to buy a property that is a short sale. My question is that I'm still debating whether or not to buy and hold or to flip the home. I already have the math figured out on both ideas, but my question is...
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What do you think someone like Grant Cardone or Manny Koshbin would do in today’s day and age to start out in real estate? Obviously they use or have used a lot of private equity or crowdfunding tactics to fund their ...
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Hello BP community,I am trying to set up a (3-4) small investor group in order to pool their funds and tackle larger fix and flips. I'm wondering if just setting up a simple LLC with all of them would be sufficient to...
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I am a new homebuyer looking to purchase in AZ. I had a discussion about this with my lender but they didn't seem 100% confident in the answer they gave me. My question was regarding using a family members cash to giv...
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Many syndicators/sponsors are offering a "waterfall" payout arrangement to their investors, whereby the investor first gets a "preferred return "of 8%, and then 75% of any cash flow left over after the preferred retur...
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Hi all, I'm in contract on a house hack, using an FHA loan. My lender's telling me that I need to make a one-year, advance payment on the homeowner's insurance to the lender (which holds that one-year payment in esc...
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I apologize that this is far from brief, but I earnestly appreciate every bit of help, and thank you for even just reading the postComing this next year at Purdue University I would like to house hack somewhere in ord...
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Hey how's it going. I'm a military veteran I plan to use the VA mortgage program for a multi unit housing ( duplex, triplex or fourplex). My income is 80% disability compensation with 60k career in California. How ca...
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Any ideas on how to best position your hard money offer to compete with cash offers? Ultimately...if you are pre-approved, the numbers work, and the lender can close super-fast there ought to be no material differenc...