For instance, in qualifying an applicant for an FHA
mortgage on a duplex, the lender may not use the rental rate the borrower intends to charge, but instead, the amount of rent is can reasonably fetch according to an FHA approved appraiser's comparison of similar rentals in the area.
If you get
a mortgage on a duplex, you are responsible for paying the mortgage.
Not exact matches
But they still had a
mortgage on their Montreal home and
on their Calgary rental property — a
duplex the couple had bought four years earlier, before the advertising company that employed Margaret transferred her to Montreal.
They wanted to know if the proceeds from selling the
duplex should be used to pay off the
mortgage on their Montreal townhouse.
Buying a
duplex, triplex, or quad isn't really overly complicated
on the
mortgage side.
«He recommends that we pay off the
mortgage on our townhouse as much as possible with the proceeds from the
duplex sale, but then borrow against the townhouse and buy solid investment vehicles,» says Margaret.
I had been buying foreclosed houses and was worried I was going to bump into the»10
mortgaged properties» limit when a few higher priced
duplexes came
on the market.
Interestingly, because of how high the cash flow is
on the property, the amount that she DID pay covers the
mortgage, escrow, insurance, property taxes and PM fee of 9 percent
on the entire property... and since it's a
duplex then what the other tenant pays is pure cash flow.