I just chuckle and carry on, telling them to send the next poor schmuck stuck with a rental they don't want to me. 

Our goals are to have a 50/50 of equities/RE for our retirement – and to possibly build a bridge of RE income that can carry us from 50 to legal retirement age, whatever that has become by then.

A seller assisting in financing, I consider, is using OPM - obviously in this case their equity...An example: I negotiated on two 4plex buildings on same land next door to each other and convinced the seller to carry back a 2nd and 3rd.

That can be 4 or 5 years off, you then have an option price for the building, 30% paid in 3 years, with that the business should carry the end financing and he will own the business with a 30% down on the building.

I, like many others, found BP by accident when searching the Internet to find answers when I was trying to get my real estate investing start...little did I know then that I had struck gold.

We carry plenty of insurance and always provide a safe experience for our guests.

The developers try to time the market for a project.So I have seen developers go I will buy now to lock in a low price and pay the carrying costs OR I have seen them wait until new council members get in who are more pro growth OR they wait for a good time of them year to build.For a seller one of the main reasons they do not get a rezone from residential to commercial is the cost and time involved plus once you get zoned to commercial you will get hit with higher assessed property taxes and the land might not sell for years instead of months.Just try to talk to whatever development group is interested and express what points are important to you.

But could also be the insurance company thought there was a chance of recovering money from the borrower.Barbara, have you tied offering to carry back a loan from one or both of the lenders for some of the shortage?

The investor holding the property can't do seller financing or a carry back on a 2nd because he needs to re-allocate the funds to another project, thus the reason he is selling.

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