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All Forum Posts by: Richard Pennington

Richard Pennington has started 9 posts and replied 22 times.

Quote from @Jack Seiden:
Quote from @Richard Pennington:

Young 24 year old getting into a federal job within a year and I wanted some clarity before I moved way ahead of time on using an FHA loan for a Mutli family home, duplex, or even a 4plex. I understand the market in DC,VA, & even Maryland may be rough but working there I may as well invest to obtain an asset to fully control. Im planning on using the 3.5% then adding on extra money with my down payment to cover for contingencies, closing costs, an ADU, plus extra to upgrade any aspect of the home to move forward to gain a percentage of some cash flow. If anyone has any insight on the DC housing market please connect with me. Im even willing to do a HELOC, jumbo payment, or an cash on cash refinance to make something work.


 A few things to chew on 1. Multi family really only exists in D.C. proper in our region. 2. Multi family tends to be quite expensive for the most part usually north of a million (with the exception of few areas mainly around the fort totten area) 3. Even at that price point you are likely to to be in some pretty rough area’s. 4. The combo of rates plus prices makes multi family a struggle to cash flow. Now in the very long term 10-15 years they are likely to be good investments as basically no new multi family is being built. But I’d honestly just look at buying a single family or th under 600k and rentjng out the basement, you might end up with less negative cash flow and depending on how the city does potentially even better appreciation. If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

I just connected with a realtor and he mentioned that my lender would be more in tune with the FHA style of things plus that renting out the basement with a single family is pretty idealistic 

Young 24 year old getting into a federal job within a year and I wanted some clarity before I moved way ahead of time on using an FHA loan for a Mutli family home, duplex, or even a 4plex. I understand the market in DC,VA, & even Maryland may be rough but working there I may as well invest to obtain an asset to fully control. Im planning on using the 3.5% then adding on extra money with my down payment to cover for contingencies, closing costs, an ADU, plus extra to upgrade any aspect of the home to move forward to gain a percentage of some cash flow. If anyone has any insight on the DC housing market please connect with me. Im even willing to do a HELOC, jumbo payment, or an cash on cash refinance to make something work.