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A 'land contract known as a “contract for deed” or an “installment sale agreement-Owner financing is a contract between a seller and buyer of Real property in where the seller provides financing to buy the property for an agreed-upon purchase price and the buyer repays the loan Installments.
Under a contract for deed, the seller retains the legal title to the property, while permitting the buyer to take possession of it for most purposes other than legal ownership. The sale price is paid in monthly installments with a balloon payment at the end to make the time and length of payments shorter than a corresponding fully amortized loan without a final balloon payment.
When the full purchase price has been paid including any interest, the seller is obligated to convey legal title to the property to the buyer. An initial down payment from the buyer to the seller is also required by a contract for deed. The legal status of land contracts varies from state to state.
Contract for deeds specifies the sale of a specific item of real estate between a seller and buyer, a contract for deed can be considered a special type of real estate contract .The more conventional real estate contracts, a seller does not provide a loan to the buyer; the contract either does not specify a loan or includes provisions for a loan from a different "third party" lender, usually a financial institution in practice. When third party lenders-banks are involved, typically a lien called a mortgage or trust deed is placed on the property so that the value of the property is used as collateral until the loan is paid in full.
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Installment payments
It is common for the installment payments of the purchase price to be similar to mortgage payments in amount and effect. The amount is determined according to a mortgage amortized schedule.Each installment payment is partially payment of the purchase price and partially payment of interest on the unpaid purchase price. This is similar to mortgage payments which are part repayment of the principal amount of the mortgage loan and part interest. The buyer pays off more of the principal of the loan, his(her) equitable title or interest in the property increases. Example, if a buyer pays a $10,000 down payment and loans $90,000 for a $100,000 parcel of land, and pays off in installments another $40.000 of this loan (not including interest), the buyer has $50,000 of equity in the land or 60% of the equitable title, but the seller holds legal title to the land as recorded in documentation deeds in a government recorders office until the loan is completely paid off. The recorders office is located in the county where the property is located. If the buyer defaults on installment payments, the land contract may consider the failure to timely pay installments a breach of contract and the land equity may revert to the seller, depending on the land contract provisions. The seller may cancel the contract thru a court proceeding if the buyer does not pay the monthly payments as agreed upon in the contract.
Land contracts can easily be written or modified by any seller or buyer; one may come across any variety of repayment plans. Interest only, Negative amortizations -short balloons-fixed payments-Interest only- extremely long amortizations just to name a few. It is not uncommon for land contracts to go unrecorded.
It is very important to record the deed. In Minnesota it is the state law to do it with in 60 days. The buyer wil want to have the contract recorded because if there was a shady seller he could sell the to multiple people. It is illigil to do this but whoom ever records the contract first is the Owner.
Minnesota, issue contracts without an acceleration clause, which in the case of a default leaves the seller in a position to either cancel the contract, discharging any principal deficiency, as in the case of deprecation, or to litigate for 18 months or more while letting the buyer, if not a corporation, retain their rights to the property while collection attempts are made, by which time the buyer will often qualify for bankruptcy, making the contract, when lacking said acceleration clause effectively an installment option, when the buyer has no other lienable assets. In bankruptcy, some regions will interpret it as an executory contract than can be rejected, while others will treat it as a debt to be paid out of the bankruptcy trust. This and a wide variety of other legal ambiguities has led to a trend toward restatement as mortgages to eliminate any incentives to not simply use the more clarified in law note and mortgage.
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Reasons for a land contract
Minnesota Contract for deeds can be used for a variety of reasons, their most common use is as a form of short-term seller financing. The date on which the full amount of the purchase price is due will be years sooner than when the purchase price would be paid in full according to the amortization schedule. The reason is most sellers are not willing to wait 30 years to get paid in full. This results in the final payment being a large balloon payment Since the amount of the final payment is usually large, the buyer may obtain a conventional mortgage loan or Fha loan from a bank to make the final payment. Contract for deeds are sometimes used by buyers who do not qualify for conventional mortgage loans-Fha loans-offered by a traditional lending institution, for reasons of unestablished - poor credit - had a foreclosure-Short sale-self employed-an insufficient down payment.[ Contract for deeds are also used when the seller is anxious to sell.
There can be other advantages of using a land contract too. When a third party lender, Bank, such as a financial institution, provides a loan, this third party has its own interests to protect against the other two parties involved, the seller and buyer. Establishing a clean title and value of the property to be used as collateral is important to the lender. The lender commonly requires title service including title search and title insurance by an independent title company, appraisal and termite inspection-flood insurance-Fha will do their own type of appraisal and inspection of the property to ensure it has sufficient value, a land survey to ensure there are no encroachments, and use of lawyers to ensure the closing is done correctly. These third party lender requirements add to closing costs which the lender requires the seller and/or buyer to pay. If the seller is also the lender, these costs are usually not required by the seller and may result in closing cost savings and fewer complications.
For properties where only relatively undeveloped land is involved and if the seller is willing to finance, the price of the empty land may be so low that the conventional closing costs are not worthwhile and can be an impediment to a quick, simple sale.
The land contract may also allow the buyer to assign his equitable title/interest in the property to yet another buyer even before the loan is paid in full, subject to conditions in the land contract, effectively reselling his equity in the property to the new buyer.
Buyers like to buy land on a contract for deed and pay it off so they can build a home at a future date or resell the land or let a third party assume their contract.
Typical contract for deed terms-Owner financing terms.
Sellers typically want around 10- 20% down of the sale price of the property to offer contract for deed financing.
Why would you want to offer 10% instead of 20% he is an Example why?
Seller (A)
Offers 10% down to a buyer he or she buys the property.
Buyers move in start making payments and takes over taxes-insurance-up keep and other expenses. Quick closing-Good price.
Seller (B) decides they want 20% or wont do a cd. Is this better lets see.
Seller (B) will most likely have to wait a longer to sell due to the amount of money down to purchase their property.
1. Owner has to pay all the expenses as noted above that seller (A) does not have to pay.
2. By being on the Market for a long period of time buyers we see this and want to pay less for the property so seller will have to reduce home at some time loosing money.
3. Not collecting payments for say 6 months that seller (A) is doing is a big loss that alone may be the difference in the 10%.
4. The money the seller could have received could have been invested in something else.
5. Seller (A) will most likely get close to asking price and usually a quick closing.
6. Finally this is a different real estate market than in the past 10% down is a lot of money for buyers who may have lost their property due to a foreclosure or short sale-lost of employment these things don’t mean they are not good buyers just that they may have went thru a rough patch and are fixing it now or in the process don’t count people out because of credit.
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I have people tell me if a buyer had good credit I would do a cd.
Well news for you if the buyer or buyers had good credit they would get a mortgage with a lower rate and for a long period where they don’t have to refinance.
Keep that in mind when deciding on buyers qualifications to purchase a property on a land contract.
You may email or call 651-334-8312
Steve Vennemann
BoardWalk Premier Realty INC
Contract for deed company Minnesota
Serving the entire state of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin
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