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Private equity is starting to pay attention to this ever growing trend in private money lending of raising capital via crowdfunding platforms, also called peer-to-peer lending (P2P Lending). For those who still don’t ...
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I’m seeing 9% hard money in my market (Phoenix).
How low do you think rates can go?
Mortgages are now up over 5%... will hard money rates start increasing too?
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Why do the interest rates charged on hard money loans vary so greatly from one State to another? Borrowers ask me this question all the time. For example, in California rates charged on hard money loans start as low a...
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As I understand it a bank will loan 80% to the investor directly, and then the seller takes out a 20% loan to finish off the remaining amount the investor couldn't muster up. Is this correct, and if so how would th...
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I'm a little confused on the whole "should I start an LLC or a business in any form" topic. A lot of people on here say to not start a business right off the bat but then a lot of the information pertains to having a ...
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Hope this is the right forum category. Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend so far!My question is, would you go out and bother to learn note investing, ie. read a lot for 6 months, talk with note investors, etc...
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I'm researching some interesting private lending deals, and I'm a little unclear how this particular piece works. I'm going to speak to an attorney, of course, but I'm trying to prepare myself a little bit even for t...
I am comparing between buying rental properties or investing in REITs/real estate ETFs. From my understanding rental properties are better to invest in most ways financially. My specific situation is that I work in F...
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Hi everyone. Glad to have found this place and hoping to obtain the correct information for some creative approaches to my project! The quick-changing Arizona market has thrown a rock in the tracks of my project and ...
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So I threw the idea out to my father about BRRR'ing out his home to get a jumpstart with his investing career. He's got a very nice home in a Cleveland suburb that he owes roughly $55k on and it would appraise probabl...