Buyer Advantages – Owner Financed Home Buying – Austin, TX
Advantages for the buyer in an Owner Financed Home purchase.
Despite the elevated purchase price and higher interest rate, there are many benefits to a buyer who engages in an installment sale transaction.
1. Easy Qualification. The buyer, in many cases, prefers an installment sale to conventional financing because it does not require traditional bank income and credit approval. The buyer may have poor credit because of a divorce or recent bankruptcy. He may be self-employed and cannot prove income. He may be new to his job and cannot meet strict lender guidelines.
Even if he could qualify for a loan, the rate will be astronomical if he has poor credit. Furthermore, few conventional lenders offer fixed interest rate loans to people with a poor credit rating.
As you can see, there are dozens of reasons why a buyer cannot (or will not) qualify for a conventional bank loan. The installment sale becomes the perfect solution for him.
2. Credit Rating. An installment sale may give the buyer a chance to improve his credit rating by owning a home and making payments timely.
3. No Loan Costs. One of the biggest benefits for the buyer is not having to pay the costs associated with conventional loans. Points, origination fees, underwriting charges, appraisal, credit reports, title insurance and the plethora of other “junk” fees charged by conventional lenders can amount to thousands of dollars at closing. The buyer is free from these with an owner-carry installment sale.
4. Fast Closing. A buyer can close and move into a property within days, since there is no third party lender holding up the transaction.
Comments
Comment from Finance F
Time July 5, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Have you always wanted to be able to do compound interest problems in your head? Probably not, but it's a very useful skill to have because it gives you a lightning fast benchmark to determine how good (or not so good) a potential investment is likely to be.
The rule says that to find the number of years required to double your money at a given interest rate, you just divide the interest rate into 72. For example, if you want to know how long it will take to double your money at eight percent interest, divide 8 into 72 and get 9 years.
Yes, it is a useful tool and is reasonably accurate.
Comment from jay27
Time July 6, 2010 at 11:40 am
It is a problem in a matter of law.
You should turn to your laywer for professional advice.
Comment from Finance F
Time July 5, 2010 at 2:41 pm
The answer is 418.76 pounds.
Ok. This is a 'fairly' simple growth question. The formula I'm using is for compound growth which I'm sure you've heard of, as you put this question in the right section. (Compound growth is used most in finance). This is how the formula looks:
FV = PV ( 1+i )^n
Where FV is future value (his future weight which is what you want). 'i' is the growth rate. 3% growth means i will be 0.03. And n is the number of years he'll grow over, which is 60-35 = 25 years old. For this question the formula could be worded as:
Weight, multiplied by ((1+percentage growth) to the power of number of years he'll be growing).
= 200*(1.03^25)
The answer is 418.76 pounds.
To help you understand. If you're growing by 3 percent a year. then next year you will be 1.03 multiplied by the weight you are now. This would be 200 * 1.03
His weight in two years would be 200 * 1.03 (the weight after the first year) which will then grow by 1.03, so the above bit needs to be multiplied by another 1.03. So in two years he'll be 200*1.03*1.03 or 200*1.03^2. You'll notice the power is simply the number of years he's been growing. After three years would be 200*1.03^3.
So it ends up being 200* (1.03 to the power of 25)
Good luck with any other questions.