Here are three main ways to structure a seller-financed deal:1.

If you buy a good building at a fair price, you will be fine over two, three or four years. 

Quote from @Piper Pepperidge: Looking to do my first flip, was originally looking at baltimore, but it looks like it's moving towards a buyer's market and inventory is very high so I'm looking for other hot neighbors with low inventory.ThanksHottest markets are inner ring dc suburbs, moco, nova, even Howard and Frederick, I can tell though if you are a 1st time flipper you will lose money, I’ve been doing this for nearly a decade and I cannot hit my numbers, I met with a flipper a few weeks doing 12 a month, has his own crews, buys off market, literally a full time business, even he is struggling , it’s a bad time to flip right now tbh. 

I lump three of my properties into a refi loan together.

Next, he wanted to check the circuit breaker.When it came time to inspect the indoor unit, I informed him that I needed to ring the doorbell since the unit was tenant-occupied.

Now three years later we are refinancing the house just to pay off the hero loan because no principal was even paid.  

This is the highest cash flowing Airbnb that I have right now out of all three of mine.Lessons learned?

You have three separate categories here: lending, legal, and tax.For the lending side, the lender has a clause in the loan documents in 99.9% of loans that allows them to "call" the loan if their is a change in ownership of the property.

When scouting a property as a real estate investor, these three factors are paramount:Location, location, location: It's a cliché for a reason.

The property has under produced based on the P/L of the last three years