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Mike Cavallo
  • Wallingford, CT
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Getting Started with Financing

Mike Cavallo
  • Wallingford, CT
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I am very interested in getting started with multi family rental investing in FL, most likely the Tampa area.  My questions are: 

  • How important is it to form a corporation before buying property #1?
  • I envision my first purchase would be no more than a four unit dwelling.
  • Because I want to preserve cash for value add improvements and reserves I want leverage financing as much as possible. With that in mind how realistic is it to expect that a newly formed LLC would be able to acquire the necessary financing? I suspect that I would likely have to guarantee the loan personally...
  • Financing through my CU would be easiest but that would mean the initial purchase would have to be a non commercial loan. 
  • How do most investors deal with this issue in the beginning?

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Mike

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