Home as percent of net assets?

[james22]

14 hours ago, bizaro86 said:

One way to raise money for a few years cheaply assuming you still want all the MSTR exposure would be to go synthetically long. Buying a call and selling a put at the same strike gives you full MSTR exposure, and releases almost all of your cash. Obviously it uses margin so you want to be reasonable, but the effective rate is quite low and it's locked in for the life of the options. 

 

I've tried to avoid options, but thanks for the thought.

 

Realized what I really want is the option to buy.

 

Spoke with my realtor about making an offer $100K above ask with a non-refundable $50K deposit if they take it off the market until the end of the year. She thought something like that would be reasonable.

 

Certainly easier and less costly than making some new owner an offer.

 

So might still happen.

[Red Lion]

25 minutes ago, james22 said:

 

I've tried to avoid options, but thanks for the thought.

 

Realized what I really want is the option to buy.

 

Spoke with my realtor about making an offer $100K above ask with a non-refundable $50K deposit if they take it off the market until the end of the year. She thought something like that would be reasonable.

 

Certainly easier and less costly than making some new owner an offer.

 

So might still happen.

 

That's a really interesting idea. Is it owner occupied or vacant? You could maybe work something out to lease the property until closing so they also get some rental revenue while they wait to close. 

[james22]

22 minutes ago, Red Lion said:

 

That's a really interesting idea. Is it owner occupied or vacant? You could maybe work something out to lease the property until closing so they also get some rental revenue while they wait to close. 

 

Owner occupied, but I don't know the story.

 

If they need sell this to fund their next place, they won't be interested.

 

If just a pied-à-terre, they might be.