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Hello,I am planning on buying a 4plex property in the Bay Area using the 3.5% FHA loan on Jan 30th 2020. When I look for cash flowing properties, however, none of them have enough rent income to cover the debt service...
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Hi FolksA buddy of mine did pretty well investing in rental properties last year in Montgomery. I can definitely see why, employment driven predominantly by Government/Education, low property values, low taxes, and go...
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We are brand new at this, outright own our own house right now which we are going to move out of and use as a rental income. We considered getting a home equity loan to take out 50k of the house to push towards our ne...
Real Estate rental income is earned when a real estate is leased for rental income generation. Rental income generally is treated as unearned or passive income for income tax purposes. Rental income is reported on Sch...
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BP asked if I had any other good stories (see thread "good reason to stay solid with a good agent") and I had some time this morning and thought I'd post this one. Sometimes you start out to make a little and end up d...
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Hello,
I am currently in the process of purchasing my second multi unit income property. I have established 2 years of landlord history with my current property and been at my job as construction worker for one year....
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Hello everyone,
I've been researching ARM lenders for about a month and looking for lenders charging the lowest rates, FHA or Conventional are fine.
If you have used or know of any lenders offering low low low rate...
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For the past month, I've been doing a short term rental for my 1 bedroom apartment in a 3 unit building. Now, I'm having trouble deciding if I should rent the other units short term vs long term. The other units are 3...
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Have you ever did a simultaneous closing on an REO? If you have, please tell me how it went down! If you haven't, but know how it's supposed to go down, can you please share that?
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BP- my name is Tamara and I live in the DFW area. I've spent the last year following the real estate market and learning more about it, finally feel ready to make the jump to invest (especially since the deals are com...