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All Forum Posts by: Antoine Martel

Antoine Martel has started 10 posts and replied 2212 times.

Post: Financing My First Rental

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911
Originally posted by @Jerry Padilla:

@Nick Wilson

@Antoine Martel

The HELOC is treated as cash and there is no need to season for 2 months.

If you are purchasing the properties at wholesale and planning to Increase the value (using the BRRR method) than I would do the andric of purchasing cash and refinancing later.

If your are planning to purchase the properties at retail value than I would obtain financing from the start. You are going to pay more in fee's, by doing a cash out refinance versus obtaining financing initially. The required LTV for a cash out refinance versus purchase is also lower.

But even if you have $1,000 in your bank account, then you pull $19,000 out of a HELOC and now you have $20,000 in your account. Then you buy a rental and get financing the next week and the downpayment is $20,000 the bank is going to allow that?

Post: Starting investing in real estate as a College Student

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

If it makes sense in your market then do it. You can get an FHA loan, put 3.5% down and finance the rest. Just most markets it doesn't make much sense because the prices are so high.

Post: To have 1000 units in a few locations

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

Depends, if you own them with your own cash... sure. But if you have 1,000 units most likely you're using other peoples money. So therefore you have to keep in touch with these people, send out disbursements, manage renovations projects, etc.

Post: Where to start investing in real estate?

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911
Originally posted by @Alvaro Rodriguez:

@Antoine Martel what about use it as down payment for a house. Move in for a year and then rent it afterwards. I had a $200k new construction house in mind that I saw over the weekend.

 Sure. If you want to move and want to live in it. And if its going to make a good return after you move out. But a $200k house is not going to have a good cash flow if you were to rent it out. The price is too high.

Post: Real estate investing in Canada

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911
Originally posted by @Jonathan Fischer:

@Antoine Martel I would love to pick your brain, I'm currently living on the east coast so my market is not at all like the GTA, but I would love to learn about where you help people invest in the states and how you use seller financing! I'm assuming based on your company title you sell turnkey properties?

 Yes

Post: Worked with Martel Family Realty/MartelTurnkey?

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911
Originally posted by @Gina Watkins:

Does anyone have experience with this company?

 Gina.

Thought I would touch base here. Would love to chat with you and see if I can help you any way.

Post: Real estate strategies

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

You can go and find the people who are buying homes locally. Look up their LLC's online and find their contact information and give them a call.

You can buy lists online. 

You can post on craigslist and network on BP.

Post: Newbie to Investing and Looking to Take Off with this

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

You work full time and travel often but you're looking to BRRR or wholesale? Both of those are time intensive and are going to be very hard to manage if you already work full time.

What is your end goal?

Post: Real estate investing in Canada

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

Jonathan.

I'm from Toronto. I was born there. I know that some people are buying rentals in some suburbs there. But I have helped a lot of investors invest in the states. It's just hard to buy rentals here because you cannot get financed so sometimes we help clients with seller financing. Would love to chat more about it.

Post: Question about "syndication-like" investing in a BRRRR?

Antoine MartelPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Miami, FL
  • Posts 2,325
  • Votes 911

Create a Joint Venture agreement between everyone involved. You can get some templates online.

This is going to describe who is putting how much money into the project and then how much profit every person is going to get at the end of the day.