It wasn’t that long ago that creative seller financing techniques ruled the day. You could buy a property ’subject-to’ (the existing mortgage), use sandwich leases, land contracts and more. When the real estate market was booming, there wasn’t much you couldn’t do when pursuing a target investment property. Then something happened…

The sub prime crisis and foreclosure tidal wave hit and most of the equity needed to make creative seller financed deals work disappeared.  Bank financing went out the window.

What rules the day now? You guessed it: private money.

Private money is the brute force to the finesse of creative seller financing. But, which one is better? Read More→