You Make Your Real Estate Profit When You Buy
By Mark Walters
Every investor wants to pay as little as possible for single family rental homes. Have you ever stopped to think why you should negotiate for the lowest possible purchase price? Yes, I know every real estate guru talks about no money down or little money down as the correct approach to investing. Yes, but why?
Let's say a home you are interested in buying has a true market value of $100,000. If the owner was financially distressed you might be able to buy that home for $80,000. The moment the deal closed you would seem to have a free and clear equity in the home of $20,000.
If course, you could not put that $20,000 in you pocket to spend on something else. But you could turn around and sell t...
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