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Hello. My wife and I have 3 single family home rentals in College Station, Texas which is about 75 miles northwest of our home in Katy, a large suburb of Houston. We purchased two of these properties about 10 years ...
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Anyone invested in Katy north of I-10, particularly zip code 77449? Seems like there is a strong rental market with opportunities for decent cash flow but there appears to be a ton of inventory and more new build SFH...
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I recently contacted a bank about getting pre-approved for a loan on a 2-4 family property, and these are the rates I was quoted:- Fixed would require 25% down; ARM would require 20% down- 30yr fixed is currently at 4...
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I swear this is the last time I will ask a question similar to this.Here is another way of looking at my situation.I have had two conventional loans of 30 years each. Because I enjoyed fixing up both houses, and added...
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Hey BP Members - I am looking at tax parcel 1 and tax parcel 2 which are on the same acre of land. It’s two triplexes, each consisting of (3) 2x1’s. They are listed for $480k and $485k. I'm wondering if I can increase...
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Hello! I’m so excited to be a new member of the forum. My spouse and I are closing on our new home TOMORROW! (Woohoo!) it’s been a bumpy ride to say the least. We have a condo that we plan to keep as a rental and s...
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I'm a freelance writer who'll be moving to San Francisco in 3 months time. I'm a single mom with 2 kids and we'll be renting a small place to stay in for the first couple of months but I have plans of getting our own ...
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I would like to be able to offer my low income tenants a option from having to mail their rent to us. Is anyone using a service that tenants can go online etc to pay rent and it goes into my account?
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Unm.
Purchase price: $153,000
Cash invested: $3,000
Originally going to use my VA loan as an active duty service member, get out ...
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So, first time real estate investor in St Louis here. Wife and I met with an agent last night and he threw out 2 interesting ways of dealing with financing when house hacking small multi family's:1) Do a 10 year mortg...