Hello BP! Anyone ever use your personal home equity (basically your own residence) to purchase a real estate investment? Good or Bad?

Is there a formula to calculate the risk between cash out refinancing vs selling?  We have a fair bit of equity in one of our houses and it should be possible to refinance or HELOC.  This option would be ok and work a...

My wife and I have decided to try being landlords (it's something we've discussed many times and now have an opportunity to get our feet wet). We just purchased a new home for ourselves using a HELOC on what will beco...

I purchased my first house about a year ago and am trying to figure out how to finance my second purchase. My plan so far has been to find a multi-family property that the owner will consider carrying the note on and ...

I'm a relative newbie. In the past two years, I've added two duplexes in C areas that have positive cash flow. My goal is to try STR using a second home mortgage ideally. My situation is a bit different in that I work...

I have been waiting on a HELOC application to finance my first multi family purchase.  I was buying time as the back up offer and tonight, I got the message saying that it fell out and I'm in.  My HELOC application, n...

I’ve been in my home for 6mo now and recently learned that I’m up ~100k in equity. I’d like to invest my equity into a rental property to maximize cash flow and build momentum in starting my own real estate portfolio....

Mortgage & Property details:
Property type: Single family residence (house hack)
Property value: $800k-$830k (based on recent sales & tax assessed value)
Mortgage Term: 30 yr fixed
Principal Balance: ~$507...

Hi all. I've been repairing my wife and I's credit for the last 6 months or so in preparation to refinance and then open a HELOC to invest. I have been self-employed (realtor) for 11 years now and had a W2 job (sales ...

I was informed of a new regulation requiring 12 months of seasoning in certain scenarios and wanted to find out if this would apply if the primary loan of an investment property was a hard money one. It seems to not a...