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How do i structure a deal of this kind, I think im going to target For rent by owners, if we cant come to an agreement on a cash offer, what do i do to set up seller financing?

Feel free to shoot me a message and we can set up a time to discuss options.

Make sure to get your key word alerts set up and leverage the investor community here in BP to answer a lot of your questions as you get started.  

If interested let's set up a phone call.Gary

But for the average Joe, we aren’t set to inherit tons of money from our family, we tried the stock market but we’ve ended up with average 7-8% returns, maybe some of us have great ideas, but we don’t have the connections and/or the network to adequately fund our business ventures.Raising money to purchase a home is relatively easy for the vast majority of people and in some cases can be shockingly affordable.

 I have talked to a couple people about partnering up but the folks I have managed to chat with thus far havent been able to bring anything to the table that I cant do myself and dont seem to be as knowledgeable about multifamily buy and holds as id like them to be.

Feel free to send me an email of your buying criteria and I will get you set up!

If I set my buying criteria to only buy properties that give me a 9% COC return or better, I can only pay $133,000 for that property.

As an aside, Out of state renters are usually much less serious than they seem.