Re-using FHA loans to grow a portfolio
Monday, June 14
The purpose of this article is to share my experience. I am not a lender or a mortgage expert. Mortgages are consistently changing so talk to a knowledgeable loan officer! FHA loans are majorly misunderstood with a lot of people I talk to. FHA stands for Federal Housing Authority. It's commonly m...
Passive vs Active Investing
Monday, June 07
I hear people talk all the time about real estate and passive investing. In my experience there are two major kinds of investing in real estate and most real estate investing is anything but passive. Active investing is anything where you're involved, whether you're doing all the repairs and mana...
Househacking in a Hot Market
Monday, May 24
Househacking is by far the easiest, lowest cost and most powerful way to get started in real estate investing or grow your portfolio for next to nothing down. That being said the market is hot and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find a good househack! Now the argument can be made th...
How to get 50% Returns!
Tuesday, June 09
Sometimes buying another property isn't the best way to get amazing returns! I was lamenting about bills on a property I owned recently and went to get some quotes to split utilities. $2000 for another electric meter, which has been a pain to get the electric company to sign off on but I'll take ...
Househacking during a recession?
Saturday, May 09
While we aren't technically in a recession yet (two consecutive quarters of declining GDP) it seems highly likely that it will happen due to the current economic decline caused by the coronavirus and job loss coming from Covid-19. With all of this going on lots of people are confused on what thei...
Recession on the horizon!
Monday, July 29
There has been a lot of talk about the next "crash" on BP. I believe what most people mean when they say crash is recession. There are plenty of thoughts about what the next recession will look like for different asset classes but I think we need to review the data before we get too carried away....