Don't take an 'unreasonable' amount, to avoid 'equitable interest' issues down the road.You can offer seller concessions to cover their closing costs in lieu of offering 'rent credits' which can be viewed as a 'financing agreement', and subject to lots of fun rules.Keep the lease completely independent of the option; don't tie performance of the lease to the performance of the option. 

Specifically: Property condition - properties in poor physical condition, that have code violations, or structural/pest issues are viewed poorly by lenders.

KBRA cites a primary concern of rent-to-own is the number of legal questions that surround deals of this type, specifically whether rent-to-own deals could be viewed as predatory lending.

View reportThis is a 4 plex needs TLC2 x 2-bedroom units2 x 3-bedroom units 

Had 3 people stop by my rental house to view it: a father and 2 teen sons.

I have locked up deals before viewing.

There are a couple other tricks of the trade to increase the chance of getting your file to be viewed the way you want it to be but this would end up being a novel of sorts.Hope that helps.

If you fail to return the list and later sue to recover your security deposit, a court may view your failure to do so as your agreement that the list is complete and correct.

My view is break even or better at fully leveraged isn't necessarily bad.

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.Is my deal analysis too conservative or not conservative enough?