I am considering making a deal on a house that will be a sort of blend on seller financing and a lease option.

Talk about actual $ and it's "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"

This combination gives me a unique blend of relatable skills and access to some great data/software.

If you own it for 2 years as your official primary residence (where your driver's license and voting is registered, oh and where you officially live, of course), you'll qualify for the capital gains exemption up to $250k when you sell.Sometimes just having another pair of eyes helps to uncover your options.

You're answer is blend of both.... banks won't lend if house needs too much work (on a investment loan, there's other loans) and yes cash is easier.

@Anthony Gayden, besides you wearing a Blue collar, you would be a light blue, you have paperwork to do at a desk but you are also out there physically doing work, so your a blend of the two.

All of the data is shown right in front of you, and you have to apply your own heuristics for selecting the appropriate comps including their age, distance from the subject, counts of rooms, size within of each other, lot sizes, etc.We can discuss all day long about how good or bad Zillow data is, and honestly, it depends very much on the market, and how quickly a sale gets reflected in the public record.In my SoCal market, it's actually pretty quickly, and I often end up using a blend of suggested comps from Zillow and my own comps that I import from other places such as Redfin, your free MLS alternative.

She is open to a "blended situation" whereby as we start to travel, we hand over more and more "ground time" at a vastly reduced rate.

Her income will be able to be used, but the question is do we go off of the current 13 week situation or blend the 2 year average.

If you send out enough offers (like we do) it's not hard to uncover folks that are ready to sell.Sure a lot more goes into it, but that's the gist.Hope that helps!