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What is everyone's thoughts on 3-2-1 Buy Down. I'm in the process of purchasing a STR and am intrigued by the 3-2-1 buy down. 1st year of the loan would be 4.5%, 2nd year 5.5%, 3rd year 6.5%, 4th year standard market ...
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Hi all,Does anybody have a reason why we use a higher reversion cap rate in our analyses besides for the sake of being conservative?I've heard that one should add 10 basis points per year to the purchase cap rate to d...
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Hi All,I own a condo (rental property) in Santa Monica I bought for $270k (currently owe $240k). My neighbor, whose unit mimic’s mine, sold recently for $490k. I am looking to take the next step in real estate inves...
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Hi, I'm Florent from Toronto, Ontario.Newbie at investing in general, I have decided to start looking into it a few months ago and I am now ready to make a move.I currently work a full time job as an engineer and I wo...
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I live in Folsom, Ca.
Bought house 6years ago for 575k, and currently valued around 850-875k, its 20 years old house.
We are thinking of moving may be to different state.
Can't decide whether to sell or rent it out...
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So I am almost done with my 2nd brrrr property this year. I completed my first property and was able to cash out all of the property cost plus rehab cost. I bought in cash and when I went to refinance the interest rat...
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The slowdown in the real estate market is now a reality and I am glad to see that it has been gradual until now, as a steep decline will certainly push us into a recession. I have been negative on public companies tha...
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I have two multi-family properties purchased within the last 8 years in Fresno, Ca. Although I have always passionate about real estate investing I'll be the first to admit that when purchasing these I didn't do my ho...
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Hi All-I'm about to conduct my first rent increase and I'm looking for suggestions on how to create a letter that is polite, yet accomplishes the task. The tenants are good people but I want to stay reasonably close ...
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Hello,I'm in a tough situation and need your suggestions: I purchased a property (Loft) in Downtown San Diego 2016 and recently got transferred overseas for work--I'm scheduled to return to San Diego in 2020. Since pu...