I met with a mortgage broker last night who shattered my vision of buying ten rental properties this year by contradicting almost everything I've learned from Dean about finding financing:
- he said no institution or private lender in California will allow anyone to get a loan without putting 5%-25% down, and they will NOT allow that 5-25% to be creative financing, such as "owner will carry" -- nope, we have to pay it up front.
- he said no institution or private lender in California will allow you buy a property to flip it, you must live in it for one year first.