... investors in stocks by a long shot. Nevertheless, as one more real
estate investing alternative, you can buy the stocks issued by real estate
investment trusts (REITs) and large homebuilders such ... these selected character
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istics, the scorer s mathematical formula assigns you a number. Suppos-
edly, this assessment accurately gauges the risks you present to the lende...
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Know Thyself 22 4
Know the Property and Neighborhood 22 4
Know the Sellers 22 5
Establish Favorable Benchmarks 22 7
Tit for Tat 22 8
Get Seller Concessions Early 22 8
Come Ready to Buy 22 8
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... operations through no-name sub
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sidiaries). Each player sets its own costs, terms, and loan -to- value ratios.
The structure of the deals also varies over time. Sometimes too much
money is chasing too ... of their
right to buy their leased home. Sometimes they change their mind.
Sometimes their finances fail to improve as much as they hoped. Some
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times their personal circumstance...
... employees into their build
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ings at inflated rent levels. These tenants don’t really
pay the rents stated (or if they do, they get kick
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backs in cash or other benefits), but their signed
leases sure ... have to pay a
real estate commission. Everyone involved was satisfied.
This personal example shows the power of networking. What s sur-
prising, though, is that so few buyers and...
... $20 0,000. The listing contract sets a 6 percent sales commission. The
sellers have told themselves that they will accept nothing less than
$1 92, 500, which means that after selling expenses they ... But elec
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tronic shopping for real estate (and mortgages) has made the MLS book
as obsolete as a slide rule. (For a listing of websites useful to real estate
investors, see...
...
Back then, large real estate tax shelter benefits added fuel to the fire. In
a situation similar to the dot-coms and tech stocks in the late 199 0s,
rapid price increases fed on themselves—until the ... properties.
Without this market knowledge, they can’t strategi
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cally customize their properties to make them stand
out from other rentals. In other words, these owner-
i...
... easily ask the sellers (or their real estate agent)?
But here s the downside to that approach. You might
alert the sellers to some piece of information that they
could use to strengthen their ... enter negotiations to extract (almost) as much from the
other party as possible. These investors differ primarily in the way they
try to win these deal points.
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The sellers may want the right to approve your assignees just to sat-
isfy themselves that the assignees possess the money and credit to com-
plete the purchase. The sellers also may want ... as part of your negotiation strategy.
Size of the Deposit Large deposits signal to the sellers that you are a
serious buyer. Some investors use large deposits to of...
... will these sellers incur from an all-
cash sale? Would an IRS-approved installment sale save the
sellers taxes?
5. What do the sellers plan to do with the proceeds of sale?
6. What other pressures ... fewer
sellers are willing to put up with this extra hassle. So (in the tough
states), the land contract has lost much of its popularity to the lease op
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tion (discussed l...