Do I Earn Equity With A Rent To Own Agreement? – Orlando Rent To Own Program | Written by Eugene Hoffman

Do I Earn Equity With A Rent To Own Agreement? – Orlando Rent To Own Program

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This question comes up again and again… and honestly, the answer this question has changed in recent years based on new laws enacted that affect what a homeowner can do when they’re selling their house under a rent to own agreement.

One of the big benefits of owning a house is that you (hopefully) earn equity as you make payments and pay down the mortgage.

One thing many homeowners don’t take into account is that really during the first 5 years (or more) the majority of your mortgage payment to the bank is interested… and very little of your payments for the first 5 years actually goes to pay down the principal and earn you equity.

But on the flip side, the 2nd half of your mortgage is usually where the majority of your equity is earned since most of those payments go to the principal.

So how does it work with a rent to own agreement?

When you do a lease option / rent to own home in Orlando there are various types of arrangements you can choose to take… but the most common is this:

1. You find the rent to own house you like and apply
2. You and the rent to own house owner agree on a monthly rent, a “move in” type fee that basically pays for the privilege to have the opportunity to purchase the home late, and the price of the purchase at the end of the rental agreement if you want to buy it.
3. You move in and pay your monthly rental payment and treat the house great (since you may be owning it someday).

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In the old days of lease options / rent to own agreements, a homeowner was allowed to let a portion of the monthly rental payment be applied to the purchase price as a pre-paid down payment.

This was great for everyone!

It helped the tenant buyer earn money off of the purchase each month they made a payment… and it helped the house owner sell the house more often at the end of the rent to own agreement since now the tenant had some “equity” in the deal.

But in recent years, a bill was passed in Washington D.C. called the Dodd-Frank Act that has placed restrictions on rent to own programs… and has limited the ability to apply rental payments to the end purchase of the home.

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