How Seller Financing can help you!

 

Want to sell your house faster, increase the number of buyers, reduce closing time, receive monthly mailbox money and decrease your tax liability?   If you do, Seller Financing is for you!

Here are six reasons property owners offer seller financing:

1. Reduced Marketing Times – What is the first thing a real estate agent does when property is not moving and has been on the market for 60 to 90 days? They reduce the price and add the tagline “price reduced” to all advertising and signs. Rather than reduce the price, it might be beneficial for the seller to offer financing. Buyers provided with financing can certainly pay full price in exchange for the many benefits they receive with owner financing, including the money they save by not paying expensive loan fees, origination fees, and points.
2. Increased Inventory of Prospective Purchasers – By offering owner financing, the seller increases marketability with a wider group of available purchasers. Statistics show that almost 40 percent of the American population is unable to qualify for traditional bank financing. While not all the “unqualified” group would be an acceptable risk for owner financing, it still widens the market of prospective buyers. Anyone who has added the words “Owner Will Finance” or “Easy Terms” to a For Sale ad or Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listing knows the phone will ring off the hook with interested prospects.
3. Reduced Closing Times – Another advantage of offering owner financing is shorter closing times. A closing involving a third-party conventional lender can take six to eight weeks while closing a seller-financed transaction through a reputable title company can take as little as two to three weeks. This is due to the reduced paperwork and less restrictive due diligence process.
4. Investment Strategy for Hard to Finance Properties – There are many properties that encounter financing difficulties including mixed use property, land, mobile and land, non-conforming, low value, and others. Investors realize excellent returns by paying a reduced cash or wholesale price on a hard-to-finance property and then reselling at a higher retail price with easy financing terms.
5. Interest Income – Why let the banks earn all the interest? Sellers can keep the property-earning income even after they sell by offering owner financing. For example, a $100,000 mortgage at 9 percent with monthly payments of $804.62 will be paid back $289,663.20 over 30 years. That additional $189,663.20 (over the $100,000 mortgage) is power of interest income!
6. Decrease your Tax Liability – When you sell your home for cash, you will be taxed for both profit and recapture of depreciation. This double blow can lead to a huge spike on your annual tax return and potentially putting you in a higher tax bracket and paying significantly more to the government! When you sell your home with Seller Financing, you will spread your profits over the term of the loan, lowering your overall tax exposure.

Summary

In addition to monthly mailbox money, Seller Financing your home sale can provide some very solid benefits to you. Being able to sell faster, increasing the number of buyers, reducing closing times, adding interest income, and even decreasing your tax liability are all added benefits of using Seller Financing to sell your property.

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