How And Why To Consider A Purchase Money Mortgage

I received so much feedback on The Creative Cure For Selling Your Home article that I decided to follow it up with a "how and why" to consider a Purchase Money Mortgage when selling your home.

So what is a Purchase Money Mortgage?

Sometimes a buyer wants to buy a home and has good enough credit to purchase the home, but is short some of the cash that the lending institution will require to close the loan. In cases like this, the Seller can hold a note for some of the cash and secure it as a secondary lien on the home. When this is done, we refer to the Seller's second a Purchase Money Mortgage. Let's consider an example on how this could work.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith would like to buy a Tallahassee home. They find that Mr. and Mrs. Jones have the perfect home for sale in Tallahassee and it is priced at $250,000. The Smith's go to the bank and discover that the bank will lend them $200,000 to purchase the home, all the Smiths need to do is invest $50,000 ($250,000 price - $200,000 loan = $50,000 down payment).

The Smiths look at all of their sources of money and discover that they can only raise $35,000, leaving them $15,000 short. So, working with an excellent and creative Realtor in Tallahassee, they make the following offer:

At closing, the Smiths get $235,000 as well as a note from the Joneses for $15,000. This creative solution is simple and creates a large market for the Smith Home. Rather than have to lower their price to attract more buyers, the Smiths have attracted more buyers by making the house more affordable (not only to people with large cash reserves).

In today's market, Tallahassee homeowners need to consider all the creative solutions possible to sell a Tallahassee home. If you want to know more about how to buy a house with a purchase money mortgage, simply drop me a note to schedule a time to get you started on your way to home ownership.

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