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Down Payment Assistance Grants Available

Source: El Paso County, Colorado • Single Family Mortgage Bond Program

Be it your first or your last, buying a home is no small accomplishment. And when you’re a first timer, there’s so much to learn and so little time, since your lease is expiring and/or you’ve suddenly realized you’d rather not commit another year of mullah to pay for someone else’s mortgage/retirement plan.

Though a tad more difficult to qualify for than the subprime days of yesteryear, for those with verifiable income, relatively stable employment and a decent (not necessarily excellent) credit score, today’s borrowing environment is full of unprecedented opportunity.

Here’s how.

  1. Market values are climbing, which might mean we have come out of the down cycle. Consequently, barring another economic collapse of course, prices will continue to rise for the next 8 – 11 years of our current real estate economic cycle*.
    1. Currently estimated to be up to 20% annually in some areas of Colorado**, this friend of ours is called appreciation, AKA your money-maker.
      1. OK. So, the $100,000 house you just bought appreciates at 20%. In theory, this means the house will be worth about $120,000 year 2, $144,000 year 3,  $173,000 year 4 and so on.
  2. With 30 year fixed rate mortgages at about 4% annually, you are able to finance an asset at a lower interest rate than its projected appreciation! This is like your bank charging you less than the federal funds rate. Or like your three-year old used car being worth more today than it did new. You get the point?
  3. Market rents are pretty high and climbing, sometimes more than relative mortgage payments! For example, the Average Rent Price in Colorado Springs is $1,321***, the principal and interest payment for a $276,000 home, which is slightly above the average home price****.
  4. When you’re a renter, consider your housing mullah turns into cosmic dust at about the 1st of each month, never to be seen again in this life, as opposed to the pixie dust that happens to homeowners when appreciation (and principal reduction) come together at about the same time, turning their home sweet home into a long term investment, even retirement tool.
  5. Many renters shy away from buying due to the cost, which includes a down payment, closings costs and other fees, all of which can add up. So for a little icing on the cake, consider the El Paso County Down Payment Assistance Grant contributes 4% of the purchase price towards down payment and closing costs.

Of course, there are property taxes, insurance, maintenance and other costs to consider with home ownership but overall, it’s generally better to buy than rent, especially in our current environment.

If you’re still reading you can go ahead and admit, it’s time to buy a home. Conveniently located at the bottom right of this screen, use the contact form to setup your personalized consultation and see how easy it can be when you hire a knowledgeable professional to help.

Do it now, before the sky falls.

* REAL ESTATE CYCLES: THEY EXIST… AND ARE PREDICTABLE http://bit.ly/1q3duZF

** Colorado Appreciation Rates:  http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/co/rates/

*** Colorado Springs Rental Market Summary: http://www.realtor.com/local/Colorado-Springs_CO/rent-prices

**** PPAR Housing Statistics, Average and Median Sales Prices:  http://www.ppar.com/Statistics.aspx

Start A LLC

Asset ProtectionDoing business as an individual exposes one’s personal assets such as houses, cars, bank accounts to  unnecessary risk, including litigation. Either caught unaware of these risks or so penny wise they’re dollar foolish, many a would be successful entrepreneurs dreams are broken by the oversight.

Who was it that said, “There’s got to be a better way”? Well, there is…

Do business as a business entity and you get to insert a layer of protection, call it a shield against the inherent risks of operating in a litigious society. To a large extent, that business entity then becomes the target of creditors, clients and/or others with legitimate claims against it and its business operations, not you and your yacht.  And the great news is that many states offer a self-serve method of forming a business entity for nominal filing fees. As of this writing, $50 and about 15 minutes of your time at the Colorado Secretary of State’s office (online) will have you in business with your own LLC, printed Articles of Organization and all! You’ll find a directory of other states with secretaries of state services online here. However, there is more to operating a company than its formation and you might want to consider more comprehensive options including legal counsel to make sure its operations are sound.

Why a LLC? LLC Benefits2

There are many benefits to doing business as a LLC, such as simplicity. No shareholders and other corporate formalities, just you and your partner/members doing what y’all do. The tax benefits include it being a pass-through entity, meaning the business profits are not taxed directly. Instead, distributions are reported by its owners/members on their respective personal returns only to be unceremoniously taxed. And of course, there is that layer of asset protection previously discussed.

Using LLCs as investment vehicles

house underwater2So here’s the cool part. Know we’re just a little…OK a lot biased towards real estate. And though we digress as that is not the cool part we’re talking about, don’t you think it made a great segue to the outstandingly stylish an investment vehicle the LLC makes for it? That you’ll soon see but, first consider this.

You’re going about your business, of real estate that is, when you come across this underwater house at 123 Sunken St. Not so surprisingly caught in its undercurrent, either its (hopefully) extremely distressed owners have or are in the process of frantically trying to swim away from it, alternately (hopefully not literally) drowning in it, or both and you can have it for a song…

…happens all the time.

What to do?! First, a little…OK a lot of due diligence and then we pen a subject-to deal leaning towards the conservative side of your findings, that’s what! This is it how it looks…

…”Well, Mr. & Mrs. Sellers, here’s a check from Mr. Investor’s account for this underwater asset with who knows what barnacles attached to it. Have a nice life!”

Investment vehicle2Right? Uh, wrong! Make that check from 123 Sunken St LLC’s account, thank you very much. This way, it is the business entity which you and your members/partners, etc make your livings from, reaping in its profits and/or yes, absorbing its liabilities. Don’t be silly, looking all surprised; of course they exist! But at least this way you have a little…OK a lot of CYA going on in the form of an extremely handy shield between “they” and your ass-ets.

Fueling that investment vehicle

Oh, yes. Now the fun part. Just how do we fill that shiny, new real estate LLC with the fuel it needs to make it to its destination anyway? Well, there are always life savings and/or AKA home equity loan. No? We can always beg Uncle Tom and them to buy into the dream…again…maybe not. Well, there’s always that hard money and private money and…

Ooh! Ooh! What about business credit?!

Yes, business credit! You might be wondering, “How in the world will I get, much less use business credit to invest in real estate?”

How It Works Real Estate

With an LLC’s Articles of Organization (or other business entity) in hand…

MWCC Process2Just like that. Any questions?

Of course. It’s either this:

Qualify for Working CapitalOr that:

Qualify as Startup

Oh! And our vendor gets 8%, only when their smart work is done, while you get the credit you deserve to do what you will – except it’s like cash.

That’s it! How we roll, in pictures.

Hit us up using the contact form to the right with any more questions or to get started. We’ll come running.

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1031 Exchange

Exchange

Section 1031 of the IRS code lets you buy and sell “like-kind” property without having to pay taxes at the time of the sale, maybe never, so long as certain rules are met. This is because the new property is seen as a continuation of the original.

Long mistaken as a tool for corporations or professional investors, the 1031 Exchange is actually a strategy that can be implemented by most anyone with the help of an approved accomodator.

 

The steps to an exchange are as follows:

1031 Exchange

 

RealEstateSuperMarkets.com has partnered with a qualified accomodator of 1031 Exchange services. Please contact us at in**@re********************.com or use the contact form to the right for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation.

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