Flipper/Rehabber · Naperville, IL · Member since 2016 · 54 posts · 24 votes
Hi BP,
I have not been involved much with deals involving seller financing and would love to ask for some insight from those who have. When structuring a seller finance deal and terms are set for the following example:
Seller wants to make $110k for the home
You can pay $100k but decide if the seller finances with X terms they can make $110k (or more depending on how you want to spin it).
The loan has a 30 year length with a 5 year balloon.
You flip this property and then exit within 6 months.
Wouldn't the seller be pissed at this point since you are not paying the full 5 years they would not accrue all the interest and actually net the number they had expected?
It feels like I may be missing an important piece to this strategy and would appreciate any insight on this. I know that you can structure the deal to where all interest is due upon payment, but is that what a lot of people are doing in their seller finance deals?
Just input a clause into the contract that you have the right to sell at any given time. They can't be mad to what they signed on. They may offer a rebuttal where if you sell early they are owed the full 110k.
A review with someone familiar with how seller financing works in your state would be a great idea as you never want to miss a small crucial detail. Let us know what you find and good luck!
Yes they would that’s why with a seller financed deals when people look at adding interest it’s not the way to calculate it because what if they took that $100k and put it in an account making 5% right now - why wouldn’t they do that versus going thru the headache of trying to collect payments from someone ?
Seller financing is not as frequent as people think, it’s less than 1% of All transactions.