What if our primary lender is only willing to loan 80% LTV for a duplex I'll be living in one side of, can I then come up with a bit more cash through a private lender such as Prosper or Lending Club or personal frien...

My mom owns a $200k house free and clear. She has a tenant in the house for the last 4 years. She is willing to allow my sister and me to use the equity in the house to seed our real-estate portfolio. We are trying to...

My partner and I put in an offer on an investment property yesterday. We had gotten pre-approval for an conventional investment mortgage. Well, after putting in the offer, I found out that for this type of mortgage gi...

My wife and have just purchased our first two investment properties with traditional financing and capital. We will be looking at a large multi family unit this weekend but would need about 139,000 for the down paymen...

Help please, im not sure what best route moving forward is. (Sorry its a bit long)Situation: In September I took possession of my father in laws second house. The house was in poor condition. (He Was dropped f...

I live in San Diego and am currently trying to figure out how to get my first rental property. As of last year year we own a condo. The original plan was to live in the condo for 5 years and then rent it out so we cou...

Hello fellow BP Members,I wanted to share me and my business partners financing for many of our deals.  We currently have built our investment business to 20 unit in 2 years.  Our first few deal were with our own mone...

So, my friend and I have been researching real estate investing on and off over the past six months. We both have full time jobs in the pittsburgh area and are in our mid twenties. We like the idea of investing in ...

Newbie here. I'm just starting off my adventure so I'm here to learn for the most part.I have been listening to the Podcast A lot lately and its keep the motivational juices flowing. I just bought my first home In Bro...

I feel like I'm missing something big here so I'd like to present it to the BP community for thoughts....I have a good friend (trustworthy and afraid of bad karma) whose mother owns a few properties in San Jose, CA ar...