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I am a first time homebuyer in California who has been looking for a home for a year and a half. Never been in escrow before as I was always priced out. But finally got my offer accepted but ran into this issue.
Sell...
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I was introduced to a program called “Freedom Mentors,” by a friend, where you pay $15-25k to be coached on investing and you have to split earnings 50/50 up to your first 500k and then you’re out of the program and o...
So this is happening here: http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/05/08/portland...As a landlord who does her own repairs, this is terrifying to me. I'm imagining crawling under a sink to fix a leak, locked in a house ...
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I'm an American living in SE Asia and considering buying a small one bedroom flat somewhere along the Italian riviera. Why? The dollar is strong, and long term, I'd love to have a place we can go to for months on en...
Does anybody know if it is legal to make tenants pay the monthly solar panel lease fee and what the solar company is charging for the electricity generated? The lease that the property manager set up, that the tenants...
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I am being told by an attorney that because of the Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 I cannot get a seller to hold the paper. I do not understand because I hear of people doing this.
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Hi all - I'm new here, but have watced and read for a while without jumping in. I'm buying a house sub2 and the seller is asking me for a written guarantee that we will pay his payments. In the past, I've never had to...
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Hello all-I'm saving for my first multifamily home and my Agent (who invests himself) advised me to house hack for at least my first property. I expressed some uncertainty with living in the property and he told me so...
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Hi all ,
Would you take someone from Marijuana conviction from 7 years ago as tenant ?
When they say Marijuana conviction means he smoke marijuana or could mean he was selling it?
Is easy to get rid of marijuana sm...
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I need a reality check from those in the business. Is it feasible to begin with a multi family near the bay area?I live in San Francisco, but work in Palo Alto. I believe I'm priced out of purchasing in my high COL ...