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purchase money mortgage

Anybody who has been in or near the real estate market over the past ten years can attest to the fact that the money markets have been crazy. Crazy good for most of the time, but now we’re well into a cycle where money supply will be tight, and lending standards will be much tougher.

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Not all situations in real estate sales have the same solution, and many times we have to apply some “thinking outside of the box” solutions to our home buyers’ needs.
Just yesterday, I received the following question from a “home site” buyer in Georgia who needed some advice on creative financing:

I am in a situation right [...]

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Seller financing is a topic about which many people could benefit from learning. Most real estate agents will never do a transaction involving seller financing, and most homebuyers would never even think about asking for this type of assistance. And finally, most home sellers would never even realize the benefit to themselves to offer some level of owner financing.

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One of the disappointing side-affects of the boom market, where loan products were created so that everybody could buy a home, was the loss of the skilled buyers’ agent. Back in the day, we had to know all kinds of creative financing options so that “marginal” buyers could still make it to the closing table.
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I have a friend who has fallen on hard times, and he owns home that is (was) worth well over $1M. Like most Americans, he has the home pretty well leveraged, in fact owing much more on it that it is worth today. As you can suspect, his moral is low right now and he [...]

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