This question is for the lenders out there!I am planning my second house hack and would like to get pre-approved so I can start getting serious about the deals I am analyzing. My last house hack allowed me to save eno...

This post is for my DC area (DC, PG, MoCo, Alexandria, etc.) investors and interested investors. I have been using the HCVP Small Area Fair Market Rents as a basis to running my numbers when analyzing possible invest...

I purchased my primary home as a foreclosure in 2009, currently sitting on about $100k in equity. Boyfriend/business partner and I have good W2's (200k combined annual) with longevity and 401k's (120k combined) boyfri...

I have been working with a SFH/MFH excel model for a while, and thought I would clean it up a bit and see if anyone else on the site can get some use out of it. Allows for many inputs so that the model can accurately ...

Hi all!  I graduated from college in 2022 and started working at a mortgage company and have gotten preapproved for a househack.  I’ve been looking for about a month and a half with a investor-friendly agent for on-ma...

Hello! I'm 29 yrs old & want to purchase my first apartment in Brooklyn. I can put down up to $150K downpayment & have ~$12K/month salary after taxes. Any advice for optimising this purchase? 
Ideally I'd liv...

Has anyone else seen that rents in Columbus are mostly around the 25th percentile number on Rentometer.com (if not slightly lower)?  I even played with the settings and changing it to 6 months at 0.5 miles and 3 month...

I'm a new investor and have found that house hacking is the best way for me to enter. I am wondering however how do you analyze this sort of investment property? Do you run the numbers as if you were to rent at all un...

I'm trying get better / faster at some back of the envelope type math to determine if a deal might be worth looking into. I've put together a simple spreadsheet where I just plug in some basic numbers and spit out an ...

I have worked in the legal field relating for real estate for over 20 years. Working with tax sale foreclosure, mortgage foreclosure, and everything in between. My positions created a conflict of interest so I couldn'...