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California Real Estate – Appreciation On Steroids
For the last five years, owners of California real estate have been hitting the ball out of the appreciation ballpark. Yes, a real estate market on steroids.
California
California is heavily populated from north to south along the coastline,...
How To Analyze Any Property In Less Than One Minute Flat!
How many times have you seen a run down vacant property and thought to yourself...that would be a good investment? You see it for several weeks or months and do nothing about it and all of the sudden you see someone is now rehabbing it and you see a...
Real Estate Investor Question: Rehab And Sell, Or Rehab And Keep?
Here's another awesome question I received from my discussion board. The question; Why bother keeping property after it's rehabbed? Why not sell it after the rehab and GET PAID!
Of course, the first questions that you must answer is how emergent...
The Problem with Partial Inspections!
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Top 7 Reasons Why FSBOs Fail To Sell Their Home On Their Own!
In the United States, less than 10% of all For Sale by Owners (FSBOs), are successful in selling their home by themselves. That*s because most people just give up because they don*t realize from the beginning the difficulty and complexity of the...
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Down Payments – Get Creative
One of the biggest hurdles to buying a home is the down payment. Saving up a chunk of change can be difficult, so getting creative is a key.
Down Payments
The amount of your down payment is dependent upon many potential issues, but two come to the forefront. Each of these can reduce or increase the amount of cash you have to come up with for the home of your dreams.
1. Credit Score – Generally, the better your score, the lower the down payment.
2. Price – The selling price of the home is key because the down payment is expressed as a percentage of the home price or appraisal amount.
Either way, the down payment can amount to a serious chunk of change. For many first time buyers, this is a huge hurdle to overcome. They skimp and save everything they can, but saving up many thousands of dollars can take time and be frustrating. Fortunately, many first time buyers have already been saving up for their down payments, but don’t realize it.
Getting Creative
The Bank of You – The federal government looks very favorably on home ownership. This means it makes every effort to promote the real estate market through incentives and tax breaks. Once such incentive is a unique little twist built into the laws controlling 401k savings plans. The tweak in these laws allows you
to…well, borrow from the bank of you.
With most 401k plans, you have the right to borrow up to 50 percent of the vested amount of your account. If you’ve managed to save $50,000 over the years in your 401k, you can take a loan from the account for up to $25,000. This, of course, should be used for the down payment on your home. After getting into the home, you can simply pay off the 401k loan over five years or you can take out a home equity loan and repay it with that money.
In essence, you have used your 401k money to play a shell game with the down payment. In the end, this creative down payment funding strategy gets you over the down payment hurdle and into your home.
About the Author: Dan Lewis is with http://www.gwhomeloans.com - San Diego mortgage brokers providing San Diego home loans. Visit http://www.gwhomeloans.com/services.html to learn more about options on San Diego mortgages from a San Diego mortgage broker company.
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