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Patrick Martone
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Use capital as downpayment instead of be a cashbuyer

Patrick Martone
  • Engineer
  • Monmouth Beach, NJ
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I have a combination of 2 HELOCs and cash totaling $375 (75k cash, 100k Heloc 1 200k Heloc 2). Instead of purchasing a duplex rental and do single family flips, I have considered looking for a 6-10 unit building and using my capital as down payment. 

The two HELOCs are in my partner's name. The cash is mine. 

I am not working right now as I am trying to put together a deal and plan to PM renovations. Though it is the last thing I want to do, I have considered returning to a W2 job just for the sake of being able to pass approval for a loan.

Besides Hard-money Lending, what are my other options for financing? Lets assume I would be spending 700k-1.3 Mil on the 10 unit.

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Brent Coombs
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Brent Coombs
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Originally posted by @Patrick Martone:

I have a combination of 2 HELOCs and cash totaling $375 (75k cash, 100k Heloc 1 200k Heloc 2). Instead of purchasing a duplex rental and do single family flips, I have considered looking for a 6-10 unit building and using my capital as down payment. 

The two HELOCs are in my partner's name. The cash is mine. 

I am not working right now as I am trying to put together a deal and plan to PM renovations. Though it is the last thing I want to do, I have considered returning to a W2 job just for the sake of being able to pass approval for a loan.

Besides Hard-money Lending, what are my other options for financing? Lets assume I would be spending 700k-1.3 Mil on the 10 unit.

Looks like a plan. But unless you are the one finding the deal (and it had better be a real "deal"), your input is less than 25% to begin with, and from what I can see, only worth a Project Manager's salary thereafter [Have you even done that before?] So as of now, it probably should be your partner calling all the shots. You see that, right? All the best...

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