Date: October 26, 2023 Subject: The Strategic Role of Lenders in Facilitating Transactions Through Creative Financing 1. Introduction: The “Why” of Creative Financing The real estate market is fundamentally driven by affordability. As Gary Keller aptly states, “Affordability is the juice that makes the market go or stop.” In a shifting market characterized by rising interest rates and economic […]
The REISkills.com Guide to Creative Financing for Real Estate Investors Published by: REISkills.com Mission: To provide actionable education for building real estate wealth. Introduction: The Myth of “No Money Down” Many new investors are paralyzed by the belief that they need massive amounts of cash or perfect credit to get started. This is the single greatest barrier to entry—and […]
Lease-Option Purchases References Quick Takeaways “A lease option is a contract in which a landlord and tenant agree that, at the end of a specified period, the renter can buy the property at a specified price. The tenant pays an up-front option fee and an additional amount each month that goes toward the eventual down payment.” […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 5 Now this is a very important Pitfall to avoid. You need to make money in this business or don’t do it. You can’t afford mistakes. This is a big one. In our paperwork, we have a weasel Clause that says if we don’t get a tenant buyer that’s suitable, the […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 2 Not getting a proper title search against the property is Pitfall number two. This has happened to me with one of my students. We did a title search and it said the title was in the name of one person, the occupant. This man wanted to do a lease purchase […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 1 For people that are new to “lease with option”, you can either do it one of two ways, the first way is to be in the middle or a sandwich lease option, where you are lease optioning from the seller, and then subleasing and sub option to a tenant. Now […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 3 Protecting the seller from getting sued personally and getting a lien or a judgment with this particular property is it important part of dealing with least options. We’re going to talk about Land Trust now, and if you search this site on “Land Trust” you will learn a lot about […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 4 Not using a loan servicer so that your payment goes directly to paying the mortgage company PITI. So the solution to making sure that the loan stays current and the seller owner of the property does not neglect to pay the mortgage on time, we use a loan servicer. These […]
Lease Option Pitfall Number 5
SDIRA Buy and Hold Real Estate Guide The Step-by-Step Process: Establish a Self-Directed IRA: This is the first step. Not all custodians allow this. You need a specialized SDIRA custodian (like Equity Trust, Advanta, or others) that handles “alternative assets” like real estate. Fund the SDIRA: You transfer or roll over funds from a traditional IRA, 401(k), […]
Can you open up an IRA for Real Estate Investments? Sure you can . The first step is do you have any current IRAs right now? If you do we can use that money to create a self-directed IRA. If you don’t even have one Ira we can start a brand new one. It’s important […]
Unlock Your IRA’s Earning Power: A Guide to Wholesaling Real Estate When you think of a Self-Directed IRA (SDIRA), you might picture stocks or mutual funds. But what if you could use its tax-advantaged power for active real estate investing? The answer is yes—you can even execute wholesale deals entirely within your IRA. This strategy […]
Future discounting is a strategy that we use in real estate investing. Let’s say that we have a sandwich lease option, where we’re leasing from a seller with an option to buy. We have two more years on a lease and the option before it expires or needs to be extended. And let’s say that […]
No equity deals means that if you sell the property, you can’t afford to pay the agent commission and the closing costs. How can you have no equity? Well if you bought an FHA loan and you rolled the closing costs into the mortgage, and the seller contributed some way to closing, you may have […]
Negotiating the Deal for a Sandwich A sandwich is a sandwich lease option or a sandwich land contract. You’re acting as a middleman. So here’s an example. Let’s say the property is worth $100,000. Market rent is $1,000 a month. When you do the sandwich, you have to negotiate a sales price less than $100,000 […]
I want to talk a little bit about Equitable interest and lease options. Equitable interest is illegal term and it means that you got a legal homeownership right in that house, Equitable interest in the property. There’s been some lease with option teachers and trainers talking about having a tenant and a lease pay for […]
Lease Option Sandwich Training Report: A Strategic and Legally Defensible Approach to Buying on Lease Option & Lease Purchase Prepared For: Real Estate Investors & Homebuyers Executive Summary This report provides a comprehensive framework for acquiring real estate using Lease Options and Lease Purchase agreements. While these creative financing strategies offer a path to homeownership and […]