Hi,
This is a lot of fun for me, it's nice to share an opportunity with other investors and provide a step in building your portfolio.
I keep going back and forth with the developer to negotiate terms and conditions. Since these are duplexes the time involved to build out a pair of unit’s on one lot is about the same as building and upgrading a single family home, except each lot is equivalent to two homes.
All it takes for you to get in and become my partner is $40k!
You can do this with a home equity line of credit, sale proceeds, from savings, with your self directed 401k / IRA or by refinancing or selling an existing property.
So what is the returns if you don’t have any money in the property but your get monthly cash flow, share in tax benefits, build equity, pay down the mortgage and don’t have a dime in the property at this time? I think it’s called infinite returns!
Now think about relaxed weekends, sitting by the pool with a margarita, spending time with the grandkids, knowing at least this property has no maintenance issues as no one is calling you for plugged toilets, leaky faucets or non working air conditioning systems! You don’t have management issues as you did not have to man a hot sweaty office until 5:30 waiting for your rent check, you did not have to show your units to 10 prospective tenants before finding a renter, you did not have to fill out all the paper work or have to run a Tenant check! You have no maintenance and no management hassles.
Now imagine this your investment matures, you come down the road 10 years, you know you want to exit? You don’t need a realtor, you don’t need to market and advertise and wait for a number of days on market to get that less than stellar offer, your out in 60 days with half of equity of appraised value, it’s that easy!
Now I know some of you like the hassles, headaches, exciting nights unplugging toilets, midnight calls from tenants and all the issues involved with that 10, 20, 30 or 50 year old property! I understand some of you like to put a bunch of cash in you’ll never get out and some of you just don’t feel investing is worth wild if you don’t put 30% down and lose money monthly, I understand, I really do!
But for those of you who are somewhat intrigued by doing nothing and making money, by investing a little cash short term for a long term investment with infinite returns, for a stress free project where your partner has been successfully making it happen for almost 40 years, and you have better things to do with $40k two or three years from now rather than letting it sit in a rental property! Like buying another property!