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How to Buy a House with No Money Down

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By themoneyking


It’s hard to save up to buy a home these days, with bad credit rampant and more and more people losing their homes. Not everyone has thousands of dollars to use as a down payment on a house. Many people want to own a home but either don’t have good enough credit to buy a home, or don’t have the down payment. Many people want to know how to buy a house with no money down.

Buying a house with no money down is possible. In fact it’s becoming easier and easier. Now, one thing that needs to be addresses is that if you are looking to buy a house with no money down, it signifies that you may have a deeper problem with your finances and credit – something that you absolutely address. I suggest looking online for ways to fix your credit or maybe consider some sort of debt consolidation service online. But there are other times when it makes a lot of sense to buy a home with no money down. Here are 4 strategies to do so.

Seller Finance Part of the Cost

One of the best and most effective ways how you can buy a house with no money down is through what’s called seller financing. For example, if you can get a bank loan for 80% of the price of the home and the seller allows you to make payments on the other 20%, then you basically have a no money down house deal. Note that you need to clear this with your lender first – some loan firms don’t allow this, so ask them first.

Seller Finance the Whole Price

You may be able to get the seller to finance the total purchase price of the house. Now you might ask “how can a seller actually provide for the financing of the house and still get some money right away. This can be accomplished by creating two notes and actually selling one of them. Here’s what I mean.

If you person selling the home is asking for 220k, he will probably expect to receive around 2210k for the house, and he needs at least 150k in cash to help him pay off the 130k mortgage he has on his home. You can then make an offer of 240k for the value of his home in the form of 2 mortgage notes. The first mortgage note will be for the value of 200k, while the second for the value of 40k. You also arrange for something called a “note buyer” to and use it to buy the first mortgage note for the purchase price of 170k.

He now has 170k when the deal closes and you are making payments for the additional 40k that you owe. In the end, he has received the 210k he was looking for. Now, you did have to pay more for the house because of the big 30k discount of the sale of the first mortgage note, and you have to make payments on both of the mortgage notes. This is the most effective way how to buy a house with no money down. If you can land seller financing, you can buy a house with bad credit since many owners won’t look to closely at your credit.


Get a loan for the Downplayed on Credit Cards

This is an other way to get a no money down home – if you handle it right. If you don’t handle it right, you are in a world of financial trouble. If you can say get a 190k loan on say a 200k house, and then you only need 10k for the down payment. If this is the case, just get a cash loan on your credit card when the occasional deal for low credit card interest happens.

Now since you are not able to borrow for the house down payment, as stated by most lending rules, simply take out the credit card cash advance for an upcoming vacation. This vacation could be a simple stroll to the part. No one can “make” you spend it on a vacation. Now, this might be considered unethical, but it’s not.

Lenders often will encourage you to take out personal loans to go on vacations and to buy assets that depreciate. Meanwhile, they say don’t go take out a down payment on a house that will certainly go up in value. This is not unethical.

Note a quick note. You need to make sure you repay the credit card asap. Credit card debt can jump up quickly. If you don’t, you are in trouble.

Take out a Mortgage Loan

Some lenders these days will still do this. It’s called an unsecured home loan or unsecured personal loan. If you can get a 100% loan to cover the cost of your purchase, there is no down payment to be made. Keep in mind these type of loans have high interest rates. You can find many lenders online that offer mortgage loans for no down payment home, meaning the loan will cover 100%. I suggest shopping around online and keeping your eyes open. You should be able to find a lender to do this.

I suggest you look at these sites to help with your credit:

If you have been wondering how to buy a house with no money down, you can use these 4 ways to do so. Buying a home with no down payment is always best when you use someone else’s money – not your own.

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