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Updated over 7 years ago,
What to do with a deal
Hello BP community, a connection I know is selling their house. They want to put it on the market by the end of the week with the reasonable asking price for our location at 389,900. The owner could probably make 385,000 (minus fees) for the house this way. She is offering it to me "by owner" for 335k. I think I could perhaps ask for 10k less than this too. I already own (I pay the mortgage) of my own house in the same neighborhood. The options that I see (I am sure there are more) are:
1. Buying and living in this house and renting ours (can't put 20% down on this new purchase... 10% would be possible but very rough to come by) each property could rent between 2k to 2.2k per month (maybe a little more)
2. Try to "whole-sale" it. Although I have only recently heard of this concept in the last few months and do not feel confident in it.
What would you do if you were me?