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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Having Your Real Estate Sale Work Out

By Gavin J. King

In the typical real estate transaction, the bank loans you the money to buy the property, but many real estate owners miss the chance to make money from a source that they frequently do not even see. What would that do, you say?

Take, for instance, a property that you have several thousand dollars in equity, and you have someone who wants to buy it from you. With equity, you will want to make sure that you protect your profits by shielding your gains from taxes as much as you can. It is not only a matter of income taxes or municipal taxes that may affect your bottom line, and there are additional taxes that tax you at a higher rate.

There are many rules that govern taxes like capital gains tax, so consulting with an accountant or other tax professional is really important in order to save your money and profits. By loaning the buyer back your own profits you can offset or delay nearly all of these taxes, and continue to make interest on the loan. Whatever you do, make sure you are the primary lien on the property or else you will be assuming a higher degree of risk, and may be left out in the cold if the homeowner cannot pay for the home.

By loaning on your own property, you have a very proactive opportunity in dealing with the home owners and can cut off any foreclosure by dealing directly with the borrower. If the buyer does get behind on payments, you simply go to them personally and express some empathy for them, then offer to take the property back through a deed in lieu of foreclosure. This keeps you from having to go through the expense of a foreclosure, and it keeps one off of the record of the homeowner as well. Even when you take it back, you can rent it to them or kick them out and rent to someone else, until you find another buyer for it. After you take control of it again, your options are wide open.

By helping your next buyer on your home, you can get another residual interest check and be in the same position you were in before you had to take the property back in the first place. By doing things this way you can make some easy money from the homeowner, but you will probably be refinanced out eventually. - 23223

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