Quote from @Sam Epperson: let's say I come to an agreement with the seller for them to finance some of the deal. let's also pretend the seller owns it with no debt, and we agree to 5% down, 5% rate, and 10 year balloon. how are we drafting this legal document?

In working on construction loan financing, the lender informed me I'll need to unencumber that portion of the property (makes sense) before closing on the construction loan.I understand there to be two methods generally speaking: refinancing my mortgage and removing that portion of the property in the process OR attaining a partial release from the lender to remove that land.I *strongly* want to avoid refinancing as I have an amazing rate, but partial releases seem complex and also require a survey.

I've seen where people add so many loan extensions with optional payment.Say 1k gives you a 1 or 2 year extension and this can be done 4 or so times.This agreement could be changed so many ways to make it work.You could offer a higher interest rate after 7 years to extend to 15 years.

It would be $1.1m, and according to AirDNA it would run -$40k/yr as an STR, and while local rent rates are high it would still run about -$2500k/m.It is such a cool and unique property I hate to let it go and would love to find a creative use for it that could at least carry itself (approx $6k/m+).

@Brandon JaThere is not one but what you could track is the 10 year treasury https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rates/30yr-treasuries

In the meantime they will probably jack up the rate on my extension which makes no sense to me since I don't have a tenant in place yet.  

You may need to implement an hourly minimum rate for tire kicker buyers and low balling time wasters. 

HI Patrick, you can go up to 90% CLTV for HELOC primary or 89.9% for cash out refi but rates can be a bit higher depending how you use those funds for a better ROI.

And I don't know what the cap rates are in the area for SFRs, but I did a quick Redfin search for a small multi-family home in the area that's turnkey: https://www.redfin.com/VA/Richmond/1622-N-31st-St-23223/home.... 

If you are in a higher asset class many deny on credit score which usually is not seen as income discrimination which is also fair but there are actually a couple left leaning areas where credit score rating can be seen as illegally discriminatory which is ridiculous.