They usually limit seller assistance to a few percent.If the seller were to sell you a house for $100K and do owner financing, such as a wrap or a contract for deed, and you were to make payments to them for a while, then you should be able to find a bank that would do a refi.

We want to buy multiple properties, and have limited cash.

Two or three years ago, I was criticized for saying that the real estate bubble was going to bust.

Do you know what your policy limitations are?!?

Depending on how many properties you own you might be up against Fannie/Freddie limits on max # of financed properties being 4.

That statement is truely critical when building a successful RE.

Well they still have a big chunck of money left to spend, so why is it no longer time critical.

At the offering price this house seems too risky for the limited return.

I use my HELOC for investments and becuase of my "fear" of the lender reducing the limits, I have kept it maxed out, for the most part, rolling money from one investment to the other rather than paying it down and reducing interest, as that would be a point in which the lender could reduce my limit and I would no longer have that full amount available.

Bearing in mind my limited hands-on knowledge at the moment, I feel that I'm gravitating towards wholesaling and bird dogging right now.