Even in a private transaction you will have some closing costs. 

As a private lender, how do you report the profit you make for tax purpose?

Biggest question still is: Where will Amazon move?

The biggest challenge with this approach though is most lenders will require you to have a tenant in the home paying you to rent for a set period of time, I think 3 months before they will qualify you for another mortgage. 

The biggest issue you may run into would be if that the home he has already is an owner occupied home?

The start up costs of the entire field setup is likely much less than $20k, and may even look into an SBA loan for that if not private money.

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IE- more stable income, more tenant references, and the biggest reason-they are willing to pay an additional non refundable fee for their pet.