Normal or not, here we are and money is basically free right now, which is half of the equation in most deals. 

Or borrow against your own home to come up with your half of the cash needed to pay her.  

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $200,000

Cash invested: $3,000

A straight forward easy long distance BRRRR in a great area of Huntsville. Bought th...

Food, frozen dinners, vegetables, beer, half bottle of wine, spices, rice, etc......We leave things that are potentially useful, like food that gas not been opened, or is unused and fresh.

He said it was almost ready and that he would either rent me the whole thing, or build a hall around the center bathroom and rent half to me.

The tree was in the middle of the backyard, half way between the garage and the house. 

We are under currently under contract for $175,000 after putting $28,000 into the property over the last 2 and half years.

The easiest way to get a portfolio going is to buy a personal property, live in it a year, spruce it up and then rent it out and move on to the next house with another personal home loan.

I’m considering reworking the existing downstairs addition to be 2 stories in order to add a second (full or half) bathroom upstairs and/or doing something more productive with the wasted community space connecting the stairs and upstairs BRs (i.e. - add a bathroom there or create a 4th BR).

Sometimes it's half (3% each side in this example would be fairly common), sometimes it's more than half, sometimes it's less than half, sometimes it's a percentage, sometimes it's a flat rate.