How to Avoid High Down Payments


One of the biggest hurdles to rental property investing? High down payments. Most lenders want you to come to the table with twenty to thirty percent down, but with home prices averaging around $400,000, it might not be easy to come up with $80,000 to $120,000 on your next deal, especially with today’s high cost of living. So, how do you skirt the high down payment requirements while still locking up solid real estate deals? We’re showing you how in today’s Seeing Greene!

First, a Hawaii investor struggles to scale his real estate portfolio with the state’s significant down payment requirements. David and Rob give him some creative ways to still get deals done. A median-income-earning new investor wants to know whether to buy a new construction home or BRRRR his way to wealth. Then, we debate whether a high down payment with cash flow beats a low down payment with negative cash flow. Looking for a better interest rate on your next deal? We’ll share the seller finance strategies you can use to buy off-market properties, plus whether or not you can buy two houses at once with the same preapproval.

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David:
This is the BiggerPockets Podcast show, 9 61. What’s going on everyone? This is David Greene, your host of the BiggerPockets podcast here today with Rob Abasolo with a Seeing Green episode where we arm you with the information that you need to start building long-term wealth through real estate today. In today’s show, we’ve got some amazing fire questions that you are going to love as well as some high energy and some wise insight. We’re going to be talking about if you should build or bur your first duplex, how to approach an…