With an FHA loan you will have mortgage insurance for the life of the loan With a conventional loan the mortgage insurance will drop off when you have 20% equity in the home.

With an FHA loan you end up with mortgage insurance on top for the life of the loan.

. $6000/10 year life span/12 months in a year= $50 per month for 1 item.

@Jon SchwartzDo us a favor Jon....stay out of Texas since you don't agree with our stance on life.

If we assume that equal application of inflation, and we're JUST looking at inflation, stocks come out ahead (There are real life reasons why real estate might [& often does] come out ahead of stocks, we're JUST looking at inflation here, with a very simplified model).

Trust me, you'll have the rest of your life to be an adult!

Hello,My sister is US citizen who has been living overseas most of her life and I am helping her get into real estate.Since she has lived overseas, she has not been able to build credit.

But now I am totally revamping my life. 

I recently left a job that I was at for a few years (wasn’t a good place to be for work/life, etc etc), and since have decided I wanted to be a realtor and still invest in properties.

Life changes, plans change, but local lenders are vested in the community and have working relationships with real estate agents.