Wealth Without Cash: Supercharge Your Real Estate Investing with Subject-to, Seller Financing, and Other Creative Deals

Morby, host of A&E’s Triple Digit Flip, debuts with a competent primer on investing in real estate, dispensing tips for purchasing and selling properties, structuring deals, and overseeing a real estate portfolio. Emphasizing the importance of being personable, Morby recounts how his decision to help a seller find a new home for her pet rabbits led her to sell to him over other buyers: “This whole business is helping people and solving problems.” Advice for finding buyers includes promoting rent-to-own arrangements to would-be renters, as well as collaborating with other realtors to pool leads on potential deals. The author breaks down “creative” ways of financing deals, including lease-to-buy, taking over a mortgage, and “seller financing,” which involves the seller acting as lender while the buyer pays off the cost of the property in installments. Such discussions of alternative ways to purchase and sell real estate will be most helpful to those with some background in the housing market, and aspiring real estate moguls will find useful the recommendations on how to scale up one’s portfolio, suss out a seller’s priorities, and answer common questions from sellers. This gets the job done. (May)