Sometimes when you're buying a new home, or trying to sell your old home, you feel like you need to take "Real Estate Notes 101." It gets so complicated and time consuming! By finding a mortgage note buyer, the whole process can get very simple--and very fast.

Using A Private Mortgage Buyer

First lesson of real estate notes 101: you don't need to go through a bank or mortgage company to finance your home. The seller of the home you want can act as a lender of money to help you, the buyer, purchase the property. Then he can sell the mortgage note to a private mortgage buyer. The private mortgage buyer will pay cash to the seller, and you, the buyer, will pay your payments to the mortgage buyer.

Second lesson of real estate notes 101: the sale is quick. Once the offer is accepted, the closing will normally take place within 10 or 20 days. There is no escrow, so it doesn't take time for escrow to close. And there are no stringent requirements from the bank or loan company to be satisfied, and more importantly, no fees.

The private mortgage note buyer can purchase the whole mortgage outright, or just part of it. If you are the seller, you can sell your stream of payments, but hold on to the balloon payment as an investment. The only requirements the seller needs for this process are that your home has at least 60% equity, it's a property with average demographics, and your buyer has had no bankruptcies and has a job.