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- HOW TO GET A FREE HOME IN FLORIDA
- ...OR ALMOST ANYWHERE ELSE YOU WANT TO GO
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- The secret of this strategy is arbitraging the
- difference between local and tourist rental rates.
- Typically, business and vacation travelers pay
- much higher rental prices than locals. You have only
- to contact an agency to find the truth of this.
- In Florida, for example, an especially attractive
- spot for visitors, it can cost a lot of money to rent a
- house. But as a friend of ours discovered recently,
- not much of that money ends up in the hands of the
- landlord. Our friend paid $4,000 to rent a house.
- While there, he made friends with the landlord, a man
- who lived nearby. The landlord only received $1,500 of
- the rent our friend paid. The rest went to middle men.
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- Houses in that part of Florida sell for about
- $100,000. So, here's the obvious strategy. Buy the
- house and use your connections to rent it out. All you
- have to do is to run ads in specialized travel
- magazines...in your local newspaper...or in foreign
- travel and lifestyle publications to reach tourists
- visiting the U.S.
- Here is how the numbers work. You pay $100,000
- for the house. Just to keep it simple, borrow the money
- from your local bank...maybe using a home equity line
- on your dwelling. You might have to pay about $12,000
- a year to pay off that loan. But look, if you can rent
- the house for just three months of the year at $4,000
- per month -- you've done it. You've got the house
- FREE. Plus, you have free use of it nine months of the
- year.
- Or perhaps you could rent it for another couple of
- months and make a profit of $8,000. Or maybe you'd
- rather lower the rent to get a more steady tenant...and
- be content to acquire the property FREE over the period
- of the mortgage.
- We have used the example of a house in Florida.
- But it could be almost anywhere you'd want to go.
- Because if you would like to travel somewhere, chances
- are, others would, too. The only hitch is that the
- place must have a two-tiered rental market that you can
- take advantage of. In top, prime resort areas, the
- local rental rates and the tourist rental rates tend to
- run together.
- In that case, you'll be lucky to get enough in
- rentals to cover the mortgage. But in many, many
- places...you will be doing your fellow tourists a big
- service by letting them rent your property at two to
- three times the going local rate.
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