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Hello! I'm new to the forum and this is my first time posting. I am currently active duty in the Air Force serving in Misawa, Japan. My question for you guys is what advice would you give me for starting out here? Wha...
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Hi everyone,I am a young, 23 years old, military officer looking to begin investing in real estate. I am stationed in San Diego where the house prices seem to be crazy expensive unless you want to live east, outside t...
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Hi everyone! My wife and I are new to the investing journey. We are a military couple and move every few years. Our plan is to capitalize on the move to purchase distressed property and fix it up while we live in it, ...
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Never bought a home. Learned about real estate through a friend, and just started reading about it this past week! My wife and I are moving to LA (near south of Glendale) this July for a 2 year medical training progra...
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Hi BP!I’m Active Duty Coast Guard and moving to San Diego in the late summer for Grad School at UCSD. Since I need to be within a short commute to the school, it really seems like the housing market is a little too ex...
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Hello everyone,
My name is Tanner and I'm trying to make a decision that is greatly going to affect my future as a real estate investor and lifestyle but don't have much experience! Any advice or help would be great...
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BP!
This deal was an absolute project to get done, and not everything has gone according to plan. It was well worth it, for the sole fact that I learned a lot. This mostly came from some hard realities that I had to ...
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So I’m an active duty military recruiter currently stationed in southern Louisiana. Have two more years (at least) here and currently renting single family 3bd/2ba home. I get super excited when talking & about th...
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This is partially in response to the fairly frequent threads in the theme of "I make $2000/mo in BAH from the GI Bill, can I 'house hack' using my VA loan entitlement?" The direct answer to that question is "Probably ...
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Is it true that 6 months of mortgage payments is needed as an emergency fund before the closing of your loan on a multi-family property? If so, is there any way around this requirement? Is this requirement for every l...