Mortgage Note Investor’s Checklist
Whether you’re buying Mortgage Notes from a broker or performing your own due diligence careful underwriting is always prudent. Working with a seller you know and trust lessens the need for in depth investigation. However, if you’re working with a se [...]
How to Defer Paying Taxes on the Sale of an Investment Property
There are many reasons to purchase investment property. While this type of investment can come with large upfront costs, more work, and higher risk levels, there is also the real opportunity to experience some of the highest possible returns. But one [...]
Important Factors to Consider When Underwriting Mortgage Notes
If mortgage notes were risk-free, they wouldn’t require underwriting. While these notes come with a variety of risk/reward profiles, none are risk-free and thus all require some degree of underwriting. This is important to individual investors who wa [...]
Owning Rentals vs Buying Mortgage Notes – A Comparison of the Returns
Real estate offers investors many ways to make money. Investors seek real estate investments as an alternative to stocks and bonds as a way to diversify the assets in their portfolios, thereby reducing overall risk. And that’s the key for choosing an [...]
Buying Mortgage Notes
What is a Mortgage Note? A mortgage or promissory note is a written agreement between two parties which states that one party is liable to pay a specified amount to another party on a specified date, in a specified method or on any other terms agreed [...]
Using Your Self-Directed IRA to Buy Mortgage Notes
Real estate can be a great investment. However, owning and managing properties can also be stressful and time-consuming. Managing a rental property means staying on top of maintenance costs and dealing with possible rental vacancies. It also means ha [...]
Why Do Homeowners Offer Seller Financing?
Here are 5 good reasons. I’m asked these questions all the time. Once people understand the concept, they often wonder why a seller would offer financing. Here are some reasons why. Credit availability – This is the biggest reason. In many cities in [...]
Final Thoughts on Mortgage Note Investments – Investing in Mortgage Notes [Part 9]
This is a transcription of part nine of our video series, Investing Mortgage Notes. In this video, we discuss some final thoughts on mortgage notes and your goals for investing in them. https://youtu.be/r9c07BTdrQk You've made it. This is the final e [...]