Good afternoon, I’m hoping someone can help me.
I’m looking for a solution to bridge the next 1-2 years for the purchase of the home I’m currently living in.
We moved into this house on a lease with option in October of 2010. I worked for myself up until about a year ago and never really used credit. I’m working with a local credit union to build credit and cycle the couple of small items (under $2,000 total) off of my credit report. The owner of this property is anxious to cash out and pushing me to find financing. Now that I’m a W2 employee of a large corporation and I’m fixing the couple of small items on the credit I’m 1-2 years from securing traditional financing.
Here are the particulars:
Appraisal (June 2016) $410,000
Option from buyer $330,000 (reducing every month by $200)
Monthly rent payment $2,500 with $200 going to pay down the option every month. (Owner is paying taxes which are about $5500 per year)
There may be some room to push the seller to a lessor price if the closing is fast enough, that’s a profit on top of the monthly payments that could be realized by the private lender.
We have invested about $25,000 into the property in six years with the anticipation of purchasing, and my family is very committed to remaining in this house.
I’m open to various ways to structure this deal as long as it doesn’t drastically affect my monthly cash outlay or my overall purchase price when we move to traditional financing.