All Forum Posts by: Jerry Padilla
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Post: Local Lender Palm Beach or Orange County

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Cash out refinancing is a great way to invest in more properties. If they are single family residences you can get an LTV of 75% and a multi-family residence is 70% LTV.
Finding on a loan officer that focuses on investor financing, can be more valuable than a local lender. An investor friendly loan officer will have the experience and knowledge to guide you through the process correctly.
Post: Portfolio Lender for Second Home?

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You can qualify for second home and rent it out. You are just required to a reasonable distance from your primary residence. It is a 10% down payment and for a single family residence only.
Post: Wanting to start a rental property business for cash flow

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Do you own a primary home?
If not, I would recommend starting out purchasing a primary home that you house hack and live in one of the units. Maybe an under market valued property, that you can update and increase rents on?
Post: First rental property

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You can use your current homes equity to purchase property. Personally, I only invest close to home. But, I have clients investing out of state, all over the country.
Post: Lending Options For First Time Investor

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@Account Closed
There are renovation loans available that you can use for the first few properties.
Are you intending to owner occupy or strictly a rental? HomeStyle is one of these options.
Post: Pre Approval Letters

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I would have some written up as a generic, as mentioned. It shouldn’t be the lender holding you up from making an offer.
Post: Offering on multiple properties at one time

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Why not give a very short window for a response from the seller, and if they don’t respond, have an offer ready to make on the next property?
Post: First rental property

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I would be glad to answer any questions that you have.
Do you own a primary home? If not, a great way to start out would be house hacking a multi-family. If so, then do you have equity that you can take out to purchase rental property?
Post: What type Mortgage loan do you use for rentals?

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If you are looking at single family rentals, why not go the route of conventional?
You would need to qualify (documents) just like you would with a primary home, but you would be able to get a 30 year fixed interest rate. What price points are you looking for properties?
Post: HELOC for downpayment

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You won't be over leveraged in the rental properties as you are using the HELOC on your primary home to purchase the properties, and I think it is a great way to go about getting more rental properties. You will still have the down payment of 15-25% in the rental properties so you have some equity in them still. And like you said, your intentions are to start paying back your HELOC right away.
I don't think getting a 100% LTV lien against the rental itself is a great idea, because when it comes time to sell, and the market drops in value you could be out that difference, and may not have the finances to close on the property.
Let me know if you have questions on financing.