Bank Owned Homes

A bank owned home is obviously a home that is owned by the bank. The thing about a bank owned home is that it means that someone’s poor fortune can become your good fortune. That is because a home becomes a bank owned home once someone defaults on a mortgage and the home or property ends up in foreclosure.

Banks usually end up, at least lately, with more of these units on the books than they care to have. What happens then is that the bank gets too much of it’s investment capitol tied up in foreclosed home that it has in inventory and then they do not have enough cash flow to operate smoothly.

When this happens it puts the consumer that is smart and ready to work a deal, the ability to talk to the bank and negotiate a buy out on that property at usually far less than market value and also a lot less than the bank usually has invested in the property. That is particularly true in today’s shaky real estate market where the foreclosure rates are so high. Banks would rather liquefy the stock of stagnant real estate property to a liquid asset of cash and take a hit in the value than to sit on the property and take a chance on failing.

To the consumer this means that you can easily purchase some prime property for investment, resale, rental or personal usage and usually for mere pennies on the dollar. That means that you can pretty much write your own price on the property that you have found. And there is a very good chance that the bank will accept your offer with little or no counter offer.

That makes this a great situation for you and the bank because they can sell a piece of land which is not moving and unload what they perceive to be a financial albatross around its neck and you can get the buy of a life time.

If your credit is decent, a lot of times these transactions can be completed with little or no money down and you can get some pretty outrageous terms from them just so they can rid themselves and the banks stockholders of the potential burden.

Certainly this can be a great situation for the investor. But you need to still operate with a bit of caution in the purchase. It would be advisable to do the usual research on the location and what prior market values and trends were, generalized employment outlooks and demographics for that general area. This is important because you want to get something that will appreciate in value as the market recovers and something that will be desirable to a potential future customer.

Even though it may be a great deal either way, if you have the potential of two properties, one that you know will sell for an easy 2 or 3 times your purchase price almost as soon as the market clears or one that you might clear twice the price but have to wait a while longer to sell. It is obvious which one you should choose.

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