.🔹 Creative Financing – Traditional loans don’t always work for distressed properties.

Sell your car and get a loan on a new car.

I financed the deal with a conventional loan and bought down the rate from 7.75 to 6.25.

Most agency loans will expressly forbid such an arrangement, so if they found out, the odds of having the loan called would be very high. 

You have a bigger loan, but not a bigger tax basis.

I’m interested in purchasing an investment property with equity I’ve developed in my current home, however I’m concerned that if I have an issue renting out the new home it can blow up in my face.

It doesn't look like it would add much monthly cash flow, but you pick up the equity and appreciation.

Use tools like the VA loan for house hacking and your Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) to cover living costs while building equity.

SubTo is taking over someone elses loan.

The "private money", btw, is supposed to be Arnold's own money from one of his three "private equity firms."