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All Forum Posts by: Robert Tolnai

Robert Tolnai has started 5 posts and replied 14 times.

That’s great let’s get them in and see if we can make a deal happen 💪

Vacant unit completely & beautifully remodeled! ALL BRAND NEW!!! What an opportunity to purchase a Primary with only 5 % down payment or less!!! The other 2 units are month to month providing a great ''value add'' opportunity to bring rents up to market rates. The property sits in the heart of the Grand Avenue Arts District providing a special and rare opportunity for an investor, or an owner occupant, to plant roots in a community that is both vibrant, and growing. Within walking distance from the main Grand Ave art walk street full of galleries, restaurants, unique retail stores, makers' studios, salons, and boutiques. Unit 1 rent $1,250 Unit 2 rent $1,350 Unit 3 vacant & beautifully remodeled for primary home buyer! (have 3 application on it at $1450)

Post: Owner financing / seller carry question

Robert TolnaiPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Posts 16
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Quote from @Eliott Elias:

You can sell the note, you can't refinance. 


 Cool, do you have any experience with this?  who should I reach out to and see what the terms might be? 

Post: Owner financing / seller carry question

Robert TolnaiPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Posts 16
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Quote from @Pablo Pereyra:

@Robert Tolnai

Also, if selling the note is not a good fit for you, there may be others opportunities to get part of the note back. There are institutions and individuals that may buy your “payments” upfront. This is called by some as “partials” in note investments.

A rather simple example of this could work out like this: out of 120 payments, someone would buy the first 100 payment, and you would keep the last 20 payments.

Best of luck, and keep us posted how it all turns out!


 That's interesting, thank you 

Post: Owner financing / seller carry question

Robert TolnaiPosted
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Quote from @Brett Deas:

This question was probably something you should have thought about before doing the transaction. That being said, you can always try to sell the note. There is a growing number of people out there who love not investing, find them and they can help you. 


 yeah no ****, but was our 1st one so we are learning an expensive lesson ..... 

Post: Cash out refi on a Brrrrr :)

Robert TolnaiPosted
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Ok so I love the Brrrr strategy but I am running into these 2 obstacles from lenders: 

1. Since it's an investment property and bought in my LLC - lenders are saying that they can't do a cash out refi on a commercial loan/business loan

2. If I keep in my personal name so I can do the cash out refi, then the interest rate is about 1% point higher on a cash out refi than on a rate and term

What are you guys doing differently to make this work? 

Thank you 

Post: Owner financing / seller carry question

Robert TolnaiPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Posts 16
  • Votes 1

Hello, 

So we sold one of our properties via seller carry terms for 5 years, it was free & clear (there are no loans on it). So now the deed is in the new owner/buyer's name, we have a note for the balance that he pays us, all great so far. 

BUT, what if we want to get our money out of this property sooner?  do we have any way of doing that?  do we have any right to go to a bank and get a loan against this note that we have?  

Thank you 

Quote from @Eliott Elias:

Pull the cash out with a cash out refi and keep it as a rental until things pick up again 


 Great idea of course, but not enough equity to do cash out refi. 

Post: Best software for property management

Robert TolnaiPosted
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Quote from @Melissa Ward:

@Thierry Lemercier I am not familiar with Avail's functionality, so I can not do a comparison.  I'd be happy to give you a demo of our software if you'd like. 


 Can you send me a link to view your software and costs? 

Thank you 

Quote from @Alex Talcott:
Quote from @Robert Tolnai:

We already rented one out but our money will remain locked in it..... 

Still trying to sell the other as we have hard money payments and has fallen out of escrow twice already


12-month bridge with private lender? Or something else/How much time left on that?

If can nearly afford to reconceive as a fix-and-hold, see about bringing in joint venturers--to buy in?


 Yes, I like that idea, similar to Mike's, will reach out to our friends who may have large savings and not doing anything with it.