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Background: have 2 rentals purchased in the 90's, looking to start investing again. I am interested in buy / hold (or buy and flip if right property) properties. Financing strategy question.I have the assets to buy p...
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Fannie and Freddie are obviously doing a terrible job of assessing risk for borrowers with their mounds of prescribed paperwork. Apparently the Danes allow borrowers to access loans via the secondary market directly w...
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Hi there, My fiance & I submitted a contract on an REO property on May 25th 2016. The house has been on the market since 2013 (I believe it actually foreclosed end of 2012. I am working with a real estate agent (w...
Hi all - have not gotten into investing yet but have been wanting to for years just have not had the courage. Been thinking of using heloc on my primary.I pulled out a heloc on my primary home to finish the basement b...
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I've found a wholesaler that has a house at a good price in the neighborhood I am interested in. But before he will do anything I have to provide pof. I was going to use a hard-money lender, but they need all the...
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Hey all, exploring some options for a personal loan to get a down payment on a place I am looking at. Has anyone had luck taking personal loans out for down payments? Or any other good options I can explore? Looking a...
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Do you think there will be a shift in hard money and other investment loan interest rates on average as conventional mortgage rates continue to rise? Im in the Atlanta market and from what I see hard money interest ra...
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I have a real estate investor friend who needs advice. He has an SFR rental property and discovered after the most recent tenants vacated, that the property was nearly destroyed. Bid for repairs came back at $10K.
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BE HONEST AND OPERATE WITH INTEGRITY!! Last year a wholesaler represented themselves as a "Cash Buyer Investor", locked up a property and the homeowners didn't know any better, they had the contract saying the "Cash B...
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I've been working with a homeowner since July. It's a rental property in poor condition in a great neighborhood. He evicted his tenant for non payment and I marketed the house @ $99K. (Assessed @ 145K) No takers, ne...