looking to flip houses?
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Let me tell you the minus part-\n\nBought my grandmas home valued at $595K, took out a loan for 436,000.  Plumbing was $6000 off the bat, interior painting, wall paper removal $1500.  Tons of homes in her area have come up for sale 495K-630K, and a few closed after 3+ months for sale.  Decided to rent the place for $2200, loan is $1750, insurance $90, and property tax is a mess right now.  Rent not covering the PITI ( even on neg am loan).  Gardner's raised fee due to gas, I pay water and trash. \n\nIf I sell, I am subject to capital gains on any money I make.  Based on price I paid, that was never disclosed cause there was no contract I am in a bit of a mess.  They can actually base my capital gains off the price my grandma paid on the home $19,000.\n\nUnless your related to Donald Trump, I would stay away from the real estate investing until you get a grasp on the entire picture.  I am finding it incredibly hard to remember what the basis was for deciding to take on another property.  Even with my own personal income 10K month, & rent for the home I am finding it necessary to balance my checkbook for the first time in my life.  It may turn out great down the road.  To date, its taken entire days away from my regular job, required more up front money then budgeted, caused a potential tax mess, and the worse time to try and sell in a historically desirable neighborhood of custom homes.
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Try FSBO's, or expired listings
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Buy some land and go to the court house
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Get a new mansion and fill it up wit ho's
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I live in sonoma county (north of SF) and houses arn't selling as fast as i saw them go a few years ago. So I would say go for it.
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I know! my fam. is soo flipped! how do they do it? it should be illegal.
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Have you considered Ebay?  Or a streetside sale?
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ask a realator or zillow.
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Your question is incomplete! \n\nAre you asking for or offering property valuation?
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try a local real estate agent.
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I sold my hunting rifles a few years ago and received pretty good cash (although I had to give up my hunting career).  If looking to raise money without selling and personal possessions, have you considered "leverage" options, such as "flipping" a house?  i.e. buy a rundown house (20% down), remodel and renovate, then sell.
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Flip the entire thing over
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I know that in my town, I belong to a Real Estate investors group. SOme of us do fixer uppers and some provide loan money. Look in your local newspaper for meetings or groups.\nIt is always a good idea to build a network of people that invest in Real Estate.\n\nMy lenders will only loan if there is a 50% equity position and the loans are for about 12%, but if you are flipping them, the rate is somewhat irrelevant within reason.
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You can swap houses but  unless both houses have assumable mortgages, you will have to get a new mortgage and pay closing costs for a new mortgage. You will not be able to keep you current mortgage. \n\nI would say the odds of all of this working out are very slim and the hassle may be more than selling your house and buying another.
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Also, consider this:  the less you put down intially, the riskier a bet you are making.  The less money you put down intially, you will be paying a higher percentage of interest for each payment (ie getting less equity).  If you're in a hot housing market and housing prices fall, you could end up owing more than the house is actually worth.  The alternative of this is how people made a ton of money flipping houses.  They took highly leveraged loans (lots of debt, little equity), cleaned the house up, waited and sold it without having to tie up equity in the form of a down payment.  Consider the flip side: your house's market value declines and you owe more than the house is actually worth and you have very little equity.  Ouch!
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you can google for tax reposessions, it will sort them according to state. There are usually onle a few auctions per year, while they are open to the public they are not highly advertised. A lot of websites will charge you money to the information, as long as you have a credible site you should be safe. \n\nalso, a good real estate agent and help you find listsings to HUD houses. those are forclosures.
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When I flip houses, I give my contractors the opportunity to "invest" in the properties.  That whay, they get paid after the house is sold; they do great work because they know they share in whatever profit is realized; and, they usually are not lagging in completion of projects.