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Most people putting 1M cash for a house are most likely not first time home buyers either. They invested long ago, sold with appreciation, upgraded, sold with appreciation, etc. Or as stated above, they were born or inherited money.
They bought a house for $70k a long time ago, sold it recently for $1M voila there is your $1M.
🇨🇳…seriously. The number of Chinese cash buyers is out of control.
Same as everything… born with it or a long slow build up through hard work
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For me it was a combination of crypto (back in the day) and multiple property sales along with aggressive savings. I didn’t buy a house but used it for a loan for a business.
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They also could have borrowed the money from a hard money lender and intend to refinance after closing. There are ways to make a “cash offer” without owning the cash.
Or they are sitting on fat brokerage accounts and closing with a margin loan then refinancing the house
Well most of those people are from a certain southwest state. They can sell their below average home for 1.2 million and find a nice house somewhere else.
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What market are you looking at?
- inheritance / family money
- stock awards from work + growth over time (especially in areas with a lot of tech workers)
- crypto / day trading
- buying a property many years ago, paying down the mortgage, and then selling it (especially if they bought a property or properties in the 2008 to 2010 downturn)
- flipping houses
- selling a business
- hard money lenders with intention of upgrading and either refinancing or selling in short order
- lottery
Tell me your poor without telling me your poor….
Your poor what?
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Probably got it from daddy…
My parents were lucky to be born in a generation where homes were reasonable. They kept their homes instead of selling to buy new houses then liquidated during the market boom last summer. So a 70K rancher (in the early 90s) in SoCal, with minimal upgrades yielded them almost 15x profit, just because of the area it’s in. Probably will be torn down to build an ultra contemporary home. When we moved to the East Coast bought a larger home in a similar area they just liquidated that, bought for 300 in the early 20s, liquidated last year 1.5M.
Frugal in ways that people aren’t willing. Also resourcefulness for every single penny
Call me daddy
There are plenty of lenders that will give you a conventional loan but the offer on the house is shown as “cash” to make it seem like a better offer. When you hear cash offer, a lot of times it is actually these companies and not “daddy” money.
Just google it and you’ll see how common these lenders are.
I know a guy who was living month to month on rent, investing all his money in his lab. Covid 19 came and he made bank. Within a year he put down $1m cash for a house.
So long story short. Business/investment. Just a salary will probably never take you there
That’s pretty much luck though… I sold well in the 6 figures of pokemon cards and video games in 2021 because they were going to the moon
I would just pull it from one of my accounts