Dovetail Your Business Interests For Greater Cash Flow

When your real estate business is up and running smoothly, it's important to add another business strategy, or another business entirely to your portfolio of income streams.

One creative way to do this is to take back notes on the property you sell, creating a win/win situation both for your buyer and for yourself and adding large amounts of cash flow to your bottom line. Your interest in the note is secured by the very property that you have just sold! You make money on the sale of the property and then ongoing money on the monthly revenues generated from the payments your buyer makes on the note to YOU.

By selling a property and carrying a note back, this offers your business two distinct advantages. First, you do not receive a lump sum payment all at once, hence you are not taxed on those earnings at the same time, and secondly, you receive a positively cash flowing debt instrument secured against the underlying property. If your payor defaulted on the interest payments on the note, you would then be in a position to start foreclosure proceedings as the primary lender and the added benefit of being able to sell the property for more money at a later date.

As a note holder, should you ever require quick cash for your other business interests, you can discount the note and sell it immediately to a note buyer. Note buyers themselves are another way to dovetail your businesses. Once you have sufficient business revenues and are in a position to be a buyer of notes, this itself is a lucrative area to establish a portfolio of notes secured by real estate.

Dovetailing your real estate business interests is a way to leverage your time, effort, and money to create multiple streams of income and increase your net worth.

by Mary Wozny