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Daniah Koujak
  • Real Estate Broker
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Single Mom Wants To Buy First Investment Property

Daniah Koujak
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Greensboro, NC
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Hi! I’m a 36 year old single mom and I’m a real estate broker. I know how to buy an investment property but I’m having trouble figuring out how do that with my financial situation. I would really love if you guys could help me figure out where I should pull money from or if I should just continue to save and not take out equity. I own a home and owe about $300,000 and it’s worth around $425,000. I have a small amount of money saved as well. What would you do in my situation to make the money work for you?  

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Mike Shemp
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Stewartsville, NJ
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Mike Shemp
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Stewartsville, NJ
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I would probably keep saving money.  Cut discrentionary spending and do 1 or 2 side hustles to increasing savings.  Use Excel or Google Sheets to do some what-if scenarios on how long it might take based on certain assumptions being met, and then make those assumptions part of your goals.

Hope that helps.

Mike

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