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Problem 3: Seller Financing. You bought a list of addresses where vacant land owners are delinquent on their property taxes (and hence in danger of losing their land) from a large county in the Midwest for $200, then sent "yellow letters" to 100 landowners on this list offering to buy their land at a significant discount. To sweeten the deal, in each letter you also offered to pay cash, to pay off all property taxes and late penalties, and to cover all closing costs. The cost to produce and mail each letter was $1.25. One landowner calls the next day to agree. You buy his land, which you think is worth about $100,000, for $20,000 in cash. You pay off his delinquent property taxes, which have grown with penalties and fees to $4,950. Closing costs for the purchase are $500. You immediately list the vacant land for sale at $55,000, and offer seller financing.

          Problem 3: Seller Financing. You bought a list of addresses where vacant land owners are delinquent on their property taxes (and hence in danger of losing their land) from a large county in the Midwest for $200, then sent "yellow letters" to 100 landowners on this list offering to buy their land at a significant discount. To sweeten the deal, in each letter you also offered to pay cash, to pay off all property taxes and late penalties, and to cover all closing costs. The cost to produce and mail each letter was $1.25. One landowner calls the next day to agree. You buy his land, which you think is worth about $100,000, for $20,000 in cash. You pay off his delinquent property taxes, which have grown with penalties and fees to $4,950. Closing costs for the purchase are $500. You immediately list the vacant land for sale at $55,000, and offer seller financing.
        
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Problem 3: Seller Financing. You bought a list of addresses where vacant land owners are delinquent on their property taxes (and hence in danger of losing their land) from a large county in the Midwest for $200, then sent "yellow letters" to 100 landowners on this list offering to buy their land at a significant discount. To sweeten the deal, in each letter you also offered to pay cash, to pay off all property taxes and late penalties, and to cover all closing costs. The cost to produce and mail each letter was $1.25. One landowner calls the next day to agree. You buy his land, which you think is worth about $100,000, for $20,000 in cash. You pay off his delinquent property taxes, which have grown with penalties and fees to $4,950. Closing costs for the purchase are $500. You immediately list the vacant land for sale at $55,000, and offer seller financing.
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00:01 Hello students, so let us look at this question here according to the question and the data which is provided we can say that the specific specific lane for the first morad or the first mortgage mortgage actually it is not if as the highest priority as the highest priority which is followed by we can say mechanics lean mechanics and the spatial assessment the special assessment lean for the unpaid for the unpaid association use association use and the delinquent real estate taxes and the delinquent real estate real estate taxes now basically if you talk about length, so the lane basically prioritize but it gives priority which are basically established established established by the law of the state by the law of state in which the priority is basically in which the property is basically located in which the property is basically located...
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