Improving Your Credit to Invest In Real Estate: Homebuyer Q&A Free Video Replay Shiva Bhaskar from Tier One Credit, Fiona Bryan from Academy Mortgage, and Sammy Lyon from Dow Capital host an interactive live Q&A on how to improve your credit to buy real estate. Topics we cover: 5 tips to boost your credit score…
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Insuring Your Real Estate — All You Need To Know Before (and After) You Buy: Homebuyer Q&A Free Video Replay Jackie Sanchez from State Farm and Sammy Lyon from Dow Capital host an interactive Q&A on everything you need to know about insurance when you invest in real estate. Topics we cover: homeowner’s policies vs.…
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Wowee! This was a fun one! Congrats to my buyers for closing on this gorgeous NELA treehouse!! It was meant to be. We went back and forth on this for 3 weeks + before we got it under contract. They kept going to the open houses, and looking at it, and saying this is it.…
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Looking to invest in real estate? Here are 5 common ways people invest! 1) Flips This is where you buy a run down property, renovate it and sell it quickly. It takes a lot of capital and a lot of expertise and hands-on time to do this effectively and quickly. When you stop flipping, you stop…
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Congrats to my seller for closing escrow on their investment condo! They asked if they should redo the carpet and paint before listing and I said absolutely not. That’s what I believe — sell the house as is and let the buyer make their own choices! Yes, everyone wants a pretty, renovated house, but also…
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Congrats to my buyer for opening escrow on a TIC sale!! This is a strategy that allows more than one person to purchase a property, and make it more affordable. TIC stands for “tenants in common.” There are multiple ways to do this strategy, but in this case the duplex is split into two units…
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Mailbox money Monday <3 This is me on the way to #FIRE (Financial independence retire early) I am about a third of the way toward my goal and I’ve got 4 more years to get there! My rentals pay me via check but now I invest passively in real estate syndications which allow me to…
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Congrats to my buyers for opening escrow on this gorgeous land vision home! I was so excited when we first talked about their dreams of creating community farming space, growing food & human connection intertwined. We’ve been looking in the San Fernando Valley where their roots are, and stumbled on this fixer house with mature…
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Honestly, I can’t tell you. 🙂 But, what I CAN tell you is that many of my conversations with clients over the past few years have consisted of “I wish I had bought back in 2010…2012…2015…” Well, here’s your chance to stop kicking yourself for not getting in sooner! I am not changing my tune despite…
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We just closed on 3 more apartment buildings in South Los Angeles, for a total of 18 units. Do you want to learn about how I invest in real estate locally? Let’s set up a call! www.lyonideas.com/call