My husbands aunt is selling it to us at a discount but is unable to do any sort of financing as she needs to sell it and get the funds.

Step 1: Ensure you can get financing (is it a cash purchase or will you need a loan). 

How did you finance this deal?

I’m focused on multi-family and creative financing deals in VA.

After communicating with a prospective resident (Google Voice #, usually by text), with just a name, telephone number and email, the applicant can pay $55 to provide us with a background, eviction and credit check.

@Jacqueline Wright  Every auction is different so the first items to check: do they allow financing if you win the auction? 

Keyword "IF", as in if they choose to or if is even applicable or happens. 

Off market and the new the owner used an agent so I reached out to the agent and made an offer How did you finance this deal?

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