When you're negotiating the purchase of a home, there may be a tendency to focus on the price and price alone. But the fact is, there are several other factors that can -and should-be negotiated.
Move-in time
Depending on your rush as a buyer and the seller's desire to stay in the property a bit longer (as in the case of a pre-foreclosure), you may allow the seller to remain in the property a bit longer in exchange for a small reduction of the price.
Appliances
1) Assign a contract
Once you sit down with a pre-foreclosure owner or an REO officer and get a signed contract to buy a home below market, that contract has value in itself - as long as there's a clause stating you can assign your right to buy that property to a third party.
Here's a scenario for you:
A partnership may allow you to get a home faster, to buy a larger property, even to get into commercial real estate. A partnership tends to benefit everyone involved when each partner brings a specific skill or asset into the mix. That said, here are some things you may want to think about:
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