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Why do sellers care about down payments?
They want to gauge the chance of a successful sale. There's nothing quite as frustrating when selling and moving to a new home as getting into escrow, doing all the paperwork, crossing off all the ...
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Buy house with down payment, no loan, sell instantly
Wholesaling is basically the act of standing in at an auction and "buying" a home on behalf of a yet-to-be-determined buyer. You put a down payment on the purchase, and then, you go out, find that ...
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How is making a down payment different from getting a smaller loan?
They are no different, but the language you are using is different than what is typical.
If you are buying a $100k thing (perhaps a house), and you only take an $80k loan, then you are necessarily ...
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What happens if you can't pay at an auction?
I grew up working in auction houses in a rural area - family owned on most of them. I was young - so I was not the auctioneer, nor the management staff. But I did see how things work and I did ...
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Credit score and financing new car
CC debt is My Hair Is On Fire!! debt, because the interest rate is so high.
So... yes, you should pay that off first (unless you like subsidizing my 1.5% Cash Back Rewards and "Fat Cat Bankers" while ...
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What happens if you can't pay at an auction?
It depends on the circumstances of the sale, the jurisdiction, and the auctioneer. It also depends somewhat on when or how the buyer backs out. Skip to the very bottom if you just want an answer to ...
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How is making a down payment different from getting a smaller loan?
Because if you make a down payment, you've got skin in the game.
Think about a few scenarios:
If you make a down payment and you decide to walk away, you are in trouble with the bank, but you have ...
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Do monthly payments decrease on a mortgage later in the loan?
The typical home mortgage is amortized to give you a consistent payment amount through the duration of the loan. What you'll see is that each month a greater portion of your payment goes to principal ...
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Credit score and financing new car
You're asking several related questions - about credit scores, how to use cash, and how to buy a vehicle.
If we break them all down and start with what to do with your $5k in cash - it makes sense to ...
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Why do sellers care about down payments?
If the appraisal is less than the purchase price and the down payment is small, the bank might not approve the mortgage.
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Buy house with down payment, no loan, sell instantly
As mentioned in the comments, the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki is not undisputed among experts. Its advise should be taken with a grain of salt.
When you want to participate in a real ...
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What happens if you can't pay at an auction?
As @dwizum points out in their answer it will depend on the circumstance of the sale and the jurisdiction.
Aside from the down payment, the auctioneer will typically require evidence that you have ...
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60% Downpayment on house?
Keep in mind, this is a matter of preference, and the answers here are going to give you a look at the choices and the member's view on the positive/negative for each one.
My opinion is to put 20% ...
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When should I use Layaway vs. saving up for an item?
Are there any advantages to layaway?
There are two main advantages.
First, when you pay the initial deposit the seller reserves the item for you at a given price. This is helpful with unique ...
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Buy house with down payment, no loan, sell instantly
This answer is here more to support what others have already said, so I will skip the part where I answer the question and go right to the part they don't tell you about.
Buying a house at auction is ...
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Roth 401k Contribution limits reset on job change
Rollovers are different than Contributions.
You can rollover any amount as often as you want in every year, as it is basically just a transfer to an equivalent ('already taxed retirement') account. ...
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Credit score and financing new car
Do not buy a car on credit. Ever. The fact that you have credit card debt makes it an even worse idea, but there are just so many reasons you should never buy a car on credit. For $5000 you can get a ...
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Why do sellers care about down payments?
A personal story, previously shared in an answer to another question:
For the last house I sold, the buyer was doing a no-money-down mortgage and had no money for a down payment. He was even ...
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Should one always put 20% down?
the house's appreciation, if any, is unlikely to keep pace with average market returns
is ENTIRELY the wrong way to look at this. The house's value will appreciate (or depreciate) based on its ...
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How do car dealerships benefit from $0 down bad credit car sales?
There are a few reason this is different than the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and why doing this can be profitable:
Interest rates for these vehicles is commonly far, far higher than 'regular' car ...
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How much share should I get in our property
You need a neutral outside expert who will look at all the numbers, and then render a decision with all the numbers explained. The three current owners will have to agree that the split the expert ...
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How much share should I get in our property
First, congratulations on the nice capital gain. (From now on, every time someone asks on here "What to invest in?!" I will send them to this question!)
The three of you need to - literally ...
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Can a 20% down payment actually hurt you?
If you are offering 20% ($40k) down then does the bank/assessor only
look for $160k value in the house?
The appraiser is tasked with determining the current value of a property, your down payment ...
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1/3 owner of home, can I use my part for down payment for mortgage and buy out remaining 2/3?
Absolutely. Your situation isn’t as common to a bank as a new purchase, but it’s also not uncommon. People die all the time leaving a house to more than one heir. If you go to a bank, they will likely ...
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Why do sellers care about down payments?
Because, ultimately, the seller is likely going to have multiple offers for the house and will have to decide which to go with. In that situation, one of the most important weighing factors is: how ...
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Receiving $30k from mother for house down payment
Your mother can give you $14k and your wife $14k (every year) without creating a gift-tax filing requirement, anything in excess of that and she will have to file form 709 with her tax return, but she ...
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Roth 401k Contribution limits reset on job change
if I roll over existing Roth 401k to Roth IRA, will it allow me to put a full 18k in the new Roth 401k from the new employer?
No. The contribution limit for one year is $18k for all employee ...
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Contribute extra to companies 401k with the intention of withdrawing it for house down payment?
There is no exception for traditional 401(k) withdrawal limitations for first time home purchases; if you read that somewhere, you read incorrectly. If you take a distribution from your traditional ...
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60% Downpayment on house?
I put about that down on my place.
I could have purchased it for cash, but since my investments were returning more interest than the loan was costing me (much easier to achieve now!), this was one ...
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Do monthly payments decrease on a mortgage later in the loan?
Not typically. The payment amount on a mortgage is typically fixed until the principal balance is paid off. If you make extra payments after origination, that payment reduces the amount of principal ...
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