Docs your lender will ask for Okay, you are ready to buy a house! The one! With the yard! But…if you’re like most people, first you have to talk to a lender, get your finances in order and apply for a mortgage. Yikes! Where to start? Here is a typical list of documents your lender…
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Thank you Jason! Love working with you. “Have greatly enjoyed working with Sammy over the past year on real estate projects. Attention to detail, great communication, and expertise– exactly what I’m looking for in partners/realtors. Highly recommend!”
Down Payment Assistance for Educators and Healthcare Workers: First-Time Homebuyer Q&A Free Video Replay Did you know there are down payment assistance programs for teachers, school support staff & administrators, medical staff, EMT’s, nurses, firefighters and first responders? Fiona Bryan from Academy Mortgage and Sammy Lyon from Dow Capital answer questions on this live Zoom…
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I was in education for 11 years before I got into real estate. One of the things I wanted most was to buy a house. Not because I was trying to keep up with the Joneses. Or because it was what I was “supposed” to do. But because I dreamed of a beautiful homestead with wood floors,…
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Over the past couple years I became interested in housing, and how to re-think the traditional “get a J.O.B., buy a house, work til you die to pay off the mortgage” narrative for my life. Maybe many of us are questioning that too, given the current state of the world? As an educator, I also…
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Tony J. Robinson, real estate investor himself and host of the Your First Real Estate Investment podcast, is now co-host of the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Rookie podcast! Before he got famous, I got a chance to talk with him about what it was like doing my first real estate investment. Starting with $10K down,…
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“I have done several transactions with Sammy so far. I can’t think of a better person to deal with. Sammy is a true professional and such a joy to work with. I highly recommend!” Thank you Joe! You do great work.
I got the chance to speak with my friend Evolve Benton on an awesome podcast called BOI Meets Wellness. We talked about my journey from education to real estate for social good, deconstructed money and savings and the J.O.B. career ladder, and explored what it takes to stay well and do something different than the…
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I had a great conversation with Julie Holly from Three Keys Investments where I shared some of the bumps in the road in my first year of real estate investing. I met Julie at the Rod Khleif Multi-Family event in Los Angeles in early 2020, and we hit it off immediately when we found out…
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The last year brought with it a big change for me – I closed a chapter of 10+ years as an educator working in schools and non-profits in order to begin working in real estate and affordable housing construction. In that time I became a licensed real estate agent, and earned a certificate in Construction…
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