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Updated over 4 years ago on . Most recent reply

Has anyone used plastiq with funding a purchase?
So I have read a lot about people using high limit credit cards for the purchase of a property by using plastiq as the platform to do so. I have filled out request to talk with people etc. etc. and nobody ever writes me back or calls me either from Plastiq. Is this normal? Is there a way to actually talk to a live person?
Has anyone successfully use this method and this company?
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- Rock Star Extraordinaire
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I don't know anything about "Plastiq", but I have bought a house with a credit card before. I simply used one a balance transfer check from one of my credit cards, wrote a check to myself, and then wrote the check for the property. This was on something that just popped up out of nowhere about 5 years ago, I had just recently bought something all cash and was doing the rehab on it and was short of cash at the time but knew I'd be flush again in 6 months, and it was too good a deal to pass up. So I wrote the check and just left the bought house untouched for about 7-8 months (other than stabilization) until I was ready for it. I carried that note for maybe a year at 2% (the fee they charged me to write the check, it was a 0% transfer offer) and then paid it off.
It was a great strategy because it gave me something in the pipeline. I'm sorry I didn't do it more often when deals were a lot more plentiful than they are now (I actually have done it twice).
- JD Martin
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