Single-family Lease Options, 3rd ed.

How to take advantage of the opportunities created by the lease-option deal structure. How to avoid the many unknown pitfalls of lease-options. With the right terms, a lease-option can be a great way for a marginal would-be home buyer to buy a home. But with the wrong terms, which is by far more common, a lease-option will set you back years and make it harder to buy a home. The same is true of investors who want to use lease-options to control properties and their appreciation without having to make normal down payments and take on the normal risks of ownership. Landlords who want to use lease-options to increase their income and reduce their management need to be far more careful than they have been told by the bad gurus. The biggest overlooked opportunity is being a third party investor who buys into a profitable lease option that the tenant does not have the financial strength to exercise. Real estate agents are far too ignorant of the laws pertinent to lease-options to be get