Life happens, and you’ve accumulated some debt. You’re wondering how to buy real estate EVEN with a high DTI (debt-to-income) ratio. Whether it’s good debt, like rental property mortgages, or bad debt, like credit card debt, holding you back, David and Rob have some ideas to help YOU grow your real estate portfolio faster, make more passive income, and get yourself out of the red!
In this Seeing Greene, we’re talking about good, bad, and ugly debt. First, a house hacker hits hurdles when trying to buy his next property due to his current mortgage. Thankfully, there’s a way to get around this using the “sneaky rental” strategy. An investor with a growing portfolio struggles to find a bookkeeper who can keep his finances together WITHOUT costing him an arm and a leg; David and Rob give two very different pieces of advice. Got bad debt? We give an investor options on what he should do to consolidate his $40,000 credit card balance.
Wondering when to refinance your mortgage? A repeat caller asks whether a cash-out refinance on one of his properties is worth the rate increase and closing costs. Finally, what would you do with two houses on one lot? Renovate them and sell one? Keep them both as rentals? And how would you fund the renovation? David and Rob give their takes and a HUGE red flag that everyone trying to “subdivide” land should know about.
David:
What’s going on everyone? This is David Greene, your host of the BiggerPockets Real Estate podcast. Joined today with my good buddy, Rob Abasolo for an episode of Seeing Green, where we take your questions from the BiggerPockets growing and thriving community and answer them so everyone can learn how to make money investing in real estate. Rob, how are you today?
Rob:
I’m good man. I am becoming a regular at Home Depot all over again. I’m doing a remodel. It feels like I know everybody there. They’re greeting me at the door by my name and I forget how expensive things are. It all adds…