All Forum Posts by: Ronald Starusnak
Ronald Starusnak has started 28 posts and replied 486 times.
Post: NE Ohio money pit has us in a jam. Ideas please.

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Aaron, who gave you that adjusted ARV? Get the opinion from a few sources and don't just guess on it. My recommendation is to absolutely not touch any kind of merchant cash advance company, they are the devil. Don't keep digging the hole deeper, if you have equity now why not just sell? What's it worth right now and can you sell it to an FHA buyer? Why did the banks and HML not want to finance you?
Post: tenant paying 1 year rent in full, good or bad?

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You can still evict if they pay upfront, you just give them their refund. It's all in how you run your lease, just make sure you're in compliance with how the rental funds are handled. Typically they must be in their own account and some must cases if you're taking a big payment like that upfront it can get weird if you have to evict but just issue the pro-rated refund and move on.
Post: How to purchase a investment property with not so great credit?

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There are lenders that lend based on the performance of a property. There are also private lenders that you can partner with but you have to bring something to the table. If you're going to grab a hard money loan, often times they couldn't care less about your credit score if the property is performing well but most will want 20% down. There are also lenders that offer full funding on a flip, they have underwriters that verify the potential ARV, the rehab cost, and other factors, then they work with you and at the end you split the flip profit. In the beginning you might only get 20% of the profit for organizing the purchase of the home, organizing the contractors, and running it through to the sale but you'll have your feet wet and you'll have built a reputation with your lender.
Post: Cash out refinance will turn cash flow negative?

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Originally posted by @Douglas Goldstein:
I'm looking for ways to finance my next purchase. I'm could do a cash-out refinance on a rental I own since the LTV is 57%. Currently, it has $150/month cash flow. If I refinanced to an 80% LTV, I could get $180,000 to spend, but at that maximum level the cash flow would plummet to an $850/month loss. I wouldn't do THAT much, but how low would you let your cash flow go in order to unlock home equity for a new purchase?
Why not sell the property? Or do the cash out refi and then sell the property? $180k can be used to create much more than $150/month in income especially if you're able to BRRRR.
Post: We're Looking For a Few Good Writers

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Hey Mindy, I sent a submission.
Post: 50% off on 50+ farms

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Where in the EU and how much are they? What sizes? Are the farms only lots? Are there buildings?
Post: How should I spend my $2mil equity??

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Originally posted by @Taylor Elyse Murray:
My sister and I got in to real estate investing after a family member passed away and left us a sum of money. We have both done a few BRRRR's now (not so much experience on the 'rehab' aspect, we've done small things for ~10k). Each of us owns a house in cash, plus a house with a mortgage (1 in Denver, 3 in LA area), plus a huge mansion in Hawaii worth about $6mil (no mortgage) that belonged to the deceased that we vacation rent out for a very tidy sum.
Several people have recommended we pull some equity out of the Hawaii house to reinvest. We are pre-approved by the bank up to $2mil and we are trying to figure out what/how to invest.
To make things simple (we both have other, full time jobs plus managing the other properties), we were thinking of starting small and using about 400-500k and buying a condo or house in LA to do a BRRRR. Our other properties were either bought in cash, or have a fair down payment so the monthly payment on the mortgage was fairly low.
After running numbers with our mortgage officer, he came back with an estimated 4.25% rate on a $400k loan, resulting in a $2000/mo payment. If the average place in LA at that price point rents for about $2800, we are worried our margin is too low once other expenses are factored in.
Is there some piece of this puzzle I'm not understanding? Do we just need to find a property at a rock bottom price to make these numbers work out? Won't that come with a whole other set of rehabbing expenses? Should we change our strategy completely? Help!
Note: don't message me about selling the house in Hawaii, it's a personal matter and selling it is just not possible.
If you're trying to buy in LA then you're not going to make money from the rent. People that buy in Booming markets tend to buy with equity appreciation in mind. Meaning, they're hoping the market goes up and that's how they make their money. The margins are too small in some of those areas, it's difficult. You can want to buy somewhere in the country where the prices are low but the rental rates are fair. It's hard to make money at the bottom of the market but even harder to make it at the top.
Post: My Roofstock Review After One Year (As a Buyer)

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Thanks, I wanted to list on Roofstock but turns out they don't cover NY.
Post: Looking for a JV PARTNERSHIP.I'm in Syracuse N.Y. .

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David, who's doing the work on them? Where did the repair cost estimates come from?
Post: Skiptracing FOR addresses

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Anywho.com, you can get someone to make you a script that will run your list through it and throw the results into a PDF.