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I have some questions on purchasing condos in Hawaii as a vacation rental and was wondering if anyone could help me out.I know location would greatly effect this but overall how do they perform with all the expenses? ...
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Hello BP,
I'm currently looking for the most effective house hacking strategies for my first home in the Seattle area.
Here are some key aspects of my situation:
I commute to downtown Bellevue 2 times a week. I ...
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Does anyone have experience using a HELOC to pay off a mortgage early? I just bought my first property and had never heard of such a concept until I was recently listening to the Real Estate Guys Podcast. I've been li...
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I am looking into buying single family homes and came across a property that I would like to move forward with, but comes with a basement. Does anyone have thoughts on buying properties with basements? Are they more t...
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BP, I'll be switching careers in about 20 months. If you work in any the following areas please reply and maybe we can chat! Background information, we're transitioning out of the military and moving back to the Minn...
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we gave 5k earnest money, agreed to 82.5k and at most 2.4k miscellaneous and closing costs. HUD gets to us and its an additional 3.9k. We call them on it and they say they incurred more costs than normal in acquirin...
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Hello BP members.I’m in the process of gathering all the document for lease agreement.My applicant has a small service dog and I can’t charge any extra monthly fee for it . But I can collect security deposit of $500, ...
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i've been searching calcaluators everywhere, but im sure someone would know the answer here sooner...situation: i have 3 properties i would like to pay off, each at 4.75% with about 70k remaining on each loan. my ot...
I'd like to purchase a multi family place, live in one of the units, and put less than the conventional 25% as a down payment using an FHA mortgage.I know this would require an extra 0.85% on my interest rate as MIP, ...
My partner and I just bought our first multifamily in Grand Rapids, MI. We plan to buy more in the future and build our real estate business there. That said, I have a house that I bought and remodeled a few years bac...