Hi All, I'm currently negotiating a no-money-down purchase. I might be able to get the vendors to agree to leave 25% in the deal secured by a 2nd mortgage. They will get 80% by the bank (low doc), 20% "goes" to deposit and the remaining 5% will be made available as vendor discount at settlement. It should be more than enough to pay for stamp duty & solicitor.
Ideally, the solicitors should handle all this at settlement. Obviously, it wouldn't work if the stamp duty needs to be paid prior to that. I think when I bought my PPOR it worked exactly that way i.e. everything was done on settlement (I had 5% deposit then).
Depending in which State the property is based will determine when the Stamp duty is payable.
In Qld it is paid 30 days after the Contract goes unconditional and prior to settlement. Can be the same day.
Only problem i can see is that the lender will need to be advised of the Vendor rebate at settlement which will effectively reduce the purchase price and will increase their exposure. All this means they will want to reduce the loan amount to 80% of purchase price and not valuation.
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The problem is, I just found out yesterday that I won't be able to get a 85% low doc because I don't have 2 ( or 1 for that matter) years of ABN. The best low doc I can get, so two MBs told, is 70% which is too low (private sale, owner wants a certain amount in cash).
So the above deal can't work for me unless I find someone to do JV with me and finance it. Would you know somebody like that? I posted a thread asking how to find JV partners with equity and/or neg. geared properties which they wish to wrap. It would be great if you could have a look and give me your opinion Here it is: https://www.propertyinvesting.com/forums/property-investing/general-property/4320888