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<< previous page 1 next page>> written by Bryan Benson What if you have property with a subject-to loan. Do you know how to go about giving a first mortgage to a private lender if you're making the mortgage payments yourself? written by Simon Duffy I’ve always thought the 100 per cent mortgage was a bad idea in the first place... written by Dale Rogers Today builders and homeowners are again operating in a soft market. The “paper business” is a great way to make deals work. With the advent of corporate note buyers in the market place the deep discounted opportunities can be limited, however, there are still opportunities. If you end up with paper on a deal, hopefully at a discount, many creative practitioners using them at face value to put together purchase and trade deals. There is more than one way to put real estate sales together. If a buyer has a car, truck, semi-truck, semi-trailer, boat, mobile home, motor cycle, vacant lot, gem stones (the appraisals are varied), diamonds, collectibles, personal property loan, business note, judgment award, lawsuit pending on a traffic accident, life insurance annuities, inheritance, business inventory, chattel mortgages on equipment or any number of combinations can be used to make deals work. Yes it is sometimes sticky, but if you can stay within your comfort zone and two parties agree after utilizing professional appraisers and such, give it a go. The alternative is to do nothing and let the market roll over you like a run away freight train, or you can make something happen. Déjà vu. written by Dale Rogers For months now many Realtors have been pacing the floor wondering where their next sale was coming from. The bad news drips off the front pages reporting for all to see how bad the real estate market has become. Thickets of real estate signs explode out of the ground much like the peak of any mushroom season. Sellers are now buying into the story believing the market is slow. For buyers who just as little as six months ago were pushing prices with little cash flow properties suddenly, these same properties have become ugly overnight.
Shrewd investors always look for buying opportunities. Whether it is stocks, coins, gold, bonds, collectibles, antique cars, or real estate the investment principals apply. The typical successful contrarian looks for spots to make a move. If there isn’t any worthwhile action they simply stay liquid and move to cash. When the hand wringing begins by the general public the shrewd investor starts to lean forward on the edge of their chairs and begins to focus their collective gaze toward potential opportunities. Currently, there is a huge inventory of listed properties just sitting on the market in the Multiple Listing Services (MLS) in many areas. Some of these potential opportunities have motivated seller some do not. It is necessary to focus on the listed properties that have a motivated seller. With well thought offers, fun and profits can result.
written by Dale Rogers Option ARMs are getting a lot of adverse publicity and regulatory attention. It’s kind of like a smoker suing for cigarettes causing cancer and getting Alzheimer’s in the process regarding the dangers of smoking. Likewise, anyone signing on for an Option ARM suddenly suffers the memory loss associated with plowing through a mountain of disclosures and examples indicating the dangers of the negative amortization and everything that goes with it. The high foreclosure rates in the ARM segment of the mortgage business will eventually sort itself out. There will be properties sold below acquisition prices, short sales by lenders, and a few precipitated bankruptcies when area prices fall and become soft.
Option ARMS utilized for investment property acquisition with an 80% or lower Loan To Value can lead to cash flow. Triplexes and fourplexes can meet the initial parameters of building a cash flow machine. Carefully put together Option ARMs can be an excellent mortgage vehicle for building cash flow in investment properties.
written by Dan Lewis
written by Dan Lewis
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