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Updated over 5 years ago,
Owner Financing - how to sell the note
Our family has rental properties, we are selling this rental property to the tenant. This weekend we signed a draft with tenant/buyer that we agreed to sell at $290,000, $20,000 down, 8.25%, 30 yrs amort, 5 yrs balloon. Tenant has been renting for 1 yr now and has been paying rent on time, kept house in good condition (I am lucky). The new monthly will be a little less than current rent. They are aware we will sell the note.
The tenant/buyer are a couple, the husband has credit score of 680 (accordingly, the tenant will provide me a 1003 loan application form filled) We have not sign any formal document (promissory note, deed etc) yet. I am looking for 1. advice of put together the contract and supporting document in preparation of selling the note before or after closing the transaction 2. find a note buyer, property is 10 miles east of Downtown Dallas off I-30.
In addition, we (my family) have a few questions:
1. Do we need to transfer title to the tenant at closing? or is it better to do Lease Purchase for the time being till we have a suitable note buyer? The property is in Texas.
2. If tenant/buyer do buy title insurance, should title company leaves it open till we find a suitable note buyer so tenant/buyers don't pay twice? in two transactions?
3. Which of the two, 5 yr balloon or 10 yr balloon is preferred?( with no pre-pay penalty) when selling notes.
Anything else do we need to be aware of during this time, going into the closing?