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In the United States, when credits are applied to a purchase price the agreement becomes a financing contract and these contracts have been identified as predatory lending arrangements under the Dodd-Frank Act. Under ...
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Hello all!I have finally closed on my first duplex in a local city(second property, yay!) and i just had a few questions on some strategies to increase cash flow.I'm going to be living in one unit, and renting out the...
We are looking at acquiring a fix and flip loan through this company JDB Funding, Inc out of Las Vegas and a man named John D. Bayer. Has anyone ever used them and can give me a recommendation. I hate to send him a 1...
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I might already know the answer to the question I'm about to ask, but since people within this community have been doing this far more than me, I wanted to ask if there is any chance I can do something with $2K? I kno...
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I have a mortgage on a property recently purchased in VA. When mortgage was sold, the new servicer strangely paid out of my escrow account both my VA real estate tax on that property and paid MD real estate tax on a ...
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I work for a small real estate management and development company in San Francisco, CA. We only manage our own portfolio. We are also always building several projects to add to our portfolio using our own long-term sk...
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Happy Memorial Day BP community,
I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day, Thank you to all military and veterans for serving.
In regards to this forum I would like to get feedback from anyone and everyone wh...
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Hello, I have 7 rental properties right now (I'm not extremely seasoned in finding renters) and on one of them we have an applicant from another state that wants to rent the house unseen (just from pics on Zillow). T...
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Hi all. I have a couple of questions regarding rent-to-owner contracts. Assume the following scenario: the buyer and seller agree to a purchase price of, for example, $100,000. Prior to exercising the option to purcha...
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Hi,Should a person make more revenue by renting a unit on airbnb/homeaway etc.. than an ordinary month-to-month or yearly lease? I'm trying to figure out the metrics and I'm having a difficult time doing so. Lets say ...