Fairly basic question, but want to understand a few of reasons. Are people just using them to purchase cash only properties? Or are you they using them because the bank won’t lend to them? What’s the typical LTV on a ...
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This is a long post – my apologies. Please don’t quote it when replying.
My wife and I started saving to buy our first investment property in MA in July, 2018. We started looking at properties one year later, in Jul...
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Hello, I was recently invited to attend a real estate seminar that was held by a program by the name of FortuneBuilders. It was started and is operated by Than Merrill. At the end of the three day event I was asked to...
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I just wanted to post a few pictures of a property we just purchased with a tenant in the property. This tenant had been living here for 15 years and just moved yesterday (day before sheriff eviction). We did the set ...
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Anyone else having issues with builder's/turnkey providers issuing cost increase letters to the purchase contracts of new construction turn key properties.We have had 2 homes in Central Florida in escrow for over 4 mo...
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I've always had the mindset that it didn't really matter who I refinanced by BRRRR properties with because interest rates would be pretty universal. As I get ready to refi my latest purchase. I am curious, do you thi...
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Hi all!
Currently about to close on our first house-hack/short term rental near Austin and were approached by a family member who wants to partner up with us and invest in another duplex about a hour away from our du...
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So we are in the process of renting out a couple houses again and now comes the lovely time of meeting with prospective tenants. I remember the first year of ever renting out homes, I was so nervous about offending so...
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Excited to have found this forum! I’m an architect in Chicago looking to get on my feet on the development/ownership side of the industry. Ultimately my goal is to work as an “Architect-as-Developer”. It’s frustrat...
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Gas is really expensive for this time of year and the dollar is getting cheaper. Will the average hit $5/gallon this summer? If so, what will it do to our economy?
Edit: Title should say GAS...not oil. Hopefully o...