How to Decrease Interest Rates by 1% (or more) with The “Blended Interest Rate” Trick
Hey guys, have you ever heard of a blended interest rate?
A blended interest rate is gonna become really important to a lot of us selling real estate in the coming months and years as these high interest rates stick with us.
So here's what a blended interest rate is:
Imagine a buyer has a budget, and they're gonna go out and buy, let's say, a $700,000 house. They have $100,000 down, and now they have $600,000 they're gonna finance. But they can't quite swing the high interest rates that are out there today. It's just gonna put 'em in a place where they can't afford it.
But they're willing to be creative and if you have a seller that's going to be creative, you can still put this deal together.
So here's an example:
Let's say that they were able to go out and get a first mortgage for $400,000 at the current interest rate. Let's call that 7.5%, which is probably where it's headed pretty quick. And the seller was willing to carry a...
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