Creative financing off market

[Brendan Chase]

I have a friend who is slowly selling their small multi families. They are selling one a year to ease the tax burden. I am curious if there’s a way to structure the deal to help ease that burden - down payment and pay them over a number of years? Lease to own? Something that would be attractive for both seller and buyer?

[Aaron Zimmerman]

Seller financing would be the way. You can only defer out the capital gains but not the depreciation recapture. I'd have the seller work with their accountant to really see what the tax effect would be and see if that person would be able to sell more than one a year!