mothersucker
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Personally I'd rent a house in the SFBay, throw down 12+ lights, and ball in 3 months.
Oh wait I did that.
Oh wait I did that.
I've been curious about this as well.
I'm assuming that in order to do rent to own. You have to find someone who owns the house outright without any bank involvement. Even if you were to find such a person. I imagine you eventually would want to be able to prove how you paid off the house. Even if they agreed to put a lesser amount on the contract for the sale. So either way I think you need some proof of income.
If anyone out there knows more than I do. Please speak up.
Because you asked twice I'll speak up.
As OneLove has already said money / cash talks. Imagin this situation an investor has just purchased a foreclosed home for cash (it is happening all the time in MED states). Let's say the investor paid $100K at auction, maybe you are at the same auction because you know which home you'd like to live in.
You offer that investor $10K down and a purchase (option price) of say $120K (meaning you have to pay off $110K) then you come to an agreement on rent / option period and payment. Say rent of $1K a month and a 7 year option period to come up with the $110K.
Why would an investor take this? Well he just got $10K back on his $100K. He is getting $12K in rent a year (less taxes and expenses) on his $90K. He gets nice tax breaks owning a rental home.
When you do buy the house for $110K he makes $20K on $90K investment and he collected $1K a month in rent for the period.
There are a lot of homes owned by individual investors and they'd be willing to make a deal.
Also let's say instead of keeping all his cash tied up in this house investor took out a mtg. He could get a $90K mtg backed by the house and your $12K in rent payments. He could get all his cash back the day of closing and be cash flow positive.
People who have mtgs on their homes can still sign a binding lease option with you.
Say you have 50k cash in your pocket and no home
Move to my house in California for free. We can buy all of my neighbors indoor and then resell for a profit of 5k a week.
Two chicks at the same time, man.
I want to be a kid, how do I switch teams?
I want to be a kid, how do I switch teams?