Questions related Mortgage and Real Estate Investment are answered here.

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Mortgage Related 

• Are mortgage rates compounded weekly or monthly or annually?
• How to do my due diligence to select a good lender?
• I am a senior with limited income, how can I qualify for a great rate loan?
• Should I borrow from 401K for down payment?
• How much of the monthly mortgage payment goes to interest payment and how much goes to the principal payment?
• My loan officer told me that as long as I got a lower mortgage rate, and it's a no cost refinance, I should do it.  Is it true? 
• Should I refinance with 15-year or 30-year term?
• Should I choose 30 over 15-year loan and invest the difference?
• How to compare ARM and a fixed rate loan?
• Is it a good idea to refinance at 30-year term, but pay what I would have to pay under the 15-year term, except investing the extra amount in stock market.  How much annual return I need to achieve in stock market in order to be break even? 
• If I add extra $100 each month to my mortgage payment, how much mortgage interest expense can I save over the life of my loan?
• I need to borrow jumbo loan, is there anyway I can lower my costs?

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Real Estate Investment

• How to quantitatively evaluate a rental property's potential return?
• I just bought a house, what financial steps should I take?
• When is the best time to sell rental property to harvest passive losses?
• How to collect money after court eviction?
• A new real estate crowdfunding site for small investors
• In indirect and safer way to invest in Real Estate
• Free tool to collect tenant's rent payment
• Online platform for RE investing for ordinary investors
• 7 things every landlord should do before selling a rental property
• How to price your property with the right pricing method?
• Where to find a location's crime report and demographics data?
• Why private REITs are bad for regular investors?
• Free lease template for each state
  
• If I have $100K at hand, should I invest it in a bigger investment property or a small investment property and invest the rest in stock market?
• If I have $100K at hand, should I buy a large house or a small house and invest the rest?
• I am evaluating an investment opportunity, is there a model that I can plug in all the numbers, such as purchase amount, down payment, rent, appreciation rate, vacancy rate, monthly expenses, property tax rate, holding time period, etc. and the model can tell me potential IRR, NPV, etc.?
• I heard that tax lien investment can get me as high as 16% return with no risk, is it true?  How can I find such tax lien or tax deed investment opportunity?
• I have a small investment property, I am considering selling it and use the proceeds to purchase a bigger investment property.  How can I compare these two options and evaluate which option can yield the highest return?

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Tenant Management

• 3 Creative ways to check up your rental applicants