 
	 
	
		A
		  accountant 42
		  accrual accounting 43
		  accruing interest 15
		  additional security 53
		  adjustable rate mortgage 7
		  after-tax cash flow 14
		  after-tax income 42
		  Aggressive 47
		  Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors 4, 29, 44, 47, 54
		  Allen, Bob 55
		  Allen, John 60
		  Allen, Richard 18
		  Allen, Woody 4
		  all-inclusive deed of trust 45
		  American Dream 19
		  amortization 10, 36, 37
		  amortization table 26
		  Annie Hall 4
		  annual constant 1
		  Apartment Market Study 6
		  applicable federal rate 43
		  appraisals 10
		  appraiser 61
		  appreciation 7
		  Art of Negotiation 54
		  ascending 28
		  assignment of rents 53
		  assumption 27
		  asterisk 39
		  attorney 49
		  B
		  bad credit 3
		  balloon payment 7, 15, 25, 29, 36,37, 39, 40, 53, 55
		  bankers 51
		  bankruptcy 3, 12
		  basis 47
		  before-tax cash flow 10, 18
		  before-tax debt-coverage ratio 14
		  beginner 17, 13
		  
	 below-market interest rate 37
		 below-market interest rate 37
		  Bigone, Vince 2
		  blanket mortgage 8, 29, 53
		  Blue Book 58
		  bond lease 14
		  books and periodicals
		  Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors 4, 29, 44, 47, 54
		  Apartment Market Study 6
		  Art of Negotiation 54
		  Bankers, The 51
		  Blue Book 58
		  Crittenden Report, The 55
		  David Copperfield 1
		  Garage Sale Manual, The 59
		  Getting to Yes 54
		  How I Turned $1,000 Into $5,000,000 in Real Estate in My Spare Time 20
		  How to Manage Residential Property
		  for Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value 53
		  How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years 3
		  How to Write a Nothing Down Offer
		  18
		  Kelley Blue Book 58
		  National Bureau of Economic Research
		  39
		  Real Estate Investing Letter 18, 41
		  Real Estate Investor’s Monthly 39
		  Selling Income Property Successfully
		  60
		  Standard College Dictionary 41
		  You Can Negotiate Anything 54
		  buffer 5
		  bull market 28
		  business cycle 32
		  buy down 54
		  C
		  Cain & Scott 40
		  calculator 24
		  canned negotiating tactics 54
		  capacity 8, 31
		   
	 capital expenditure 14, 57
		 capital expenditure 14, 57
		  capitalization rate 1, 12
		  cash accounting 43
		  cash basis 43
		  cash equivalent 30
		  cash flow 10, 11
		  cash on cash 10
		  cash value 30
		  character 8
		  circular process 54
		  Claims Court 54
		  closing costs 9
		  Cohen, Herb 54
		  Coldwell Banker 10
		  collateral 8
		  commission 10
		  complex techniques 35
		  connections 56
		  Consolidated Capital 39
		  conspiracy 3
		  construction period interest 43
		  Consumer Price Index 23
		  Continental Savings and Loan 2
		  contingent 7
		  continuous dial 9
		  copy-and-paste command 27
		  co-signer 53
		  Craig’s List 59
		  creative finance 40
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		  credit 49
		  credit application 7
		  credit card loan 2
		  credit score 14
		  credit tenant 39
		  Crittenden Report 55
		  customers 56
		  D
		  David Copperfield 1
		  debt coverage ratio 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
		  debt-coverage ratio 42
		   
	 debt service 12
		 debt service 12
		  deception 54
		  Decision Making Process 51
		  Decision Making Unit 51, 52
		  deed 47
		  deed of trust 45
		  DeLeon, Ponce 5
		  deposits 55, 56
		  depreciable improvements 23
		  depreciation 42, 8, 36, 57
		  depression 13
		  descending 7
		  detent 9
		  determination 5
		  Dickens, Charles 1
		  dirty tricks 54
		  discharge of indebtedness 47
		  discount rate 24
		  District Court 54
		  DMP 51
		  DMU 51
		  drudge work 19
		  due-on-sale clause 7
		  Dupree + Scott 6
		  E
		  eBay 59
		  Estate of E.P. Lamberth 46
		  Excel 26, 45, 46
		  excess loans over basis 42
		  exchange 47
		  F
		  face amount of the loan 28
		  face-to-face negotiating 38
		  face value 30
		  factor 49
		  Fair Credit Reporting Act 3
		  fair market rental value 48
		  false statement 3
		  Family ‘loans’ 43
		  Fannie Mae 57
		  favors 56
		  Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
		  57
		   
	 Federal National Mortgage Association
		  Federal National Mortgage Association
		  57
		  fees 48
		  FHA 7
		  FHLMC 2
		  FHLMC/FNMA Residential Loan Application
		  57
		  financial calculator 24
		  financial tables 24
		  finding fault 54
		  Fisher, Roger 54
		  FNMA 2, 57, 58
		  FNMA/FHLMC Residential Loan Application 59
		  Form 870 54
		  Fountain of Youth 3
		  fraudulent transfer in anticipation of bankruptcy 29
		  Freddie Mac 57
		  funny money 25
		  furniture 59
		  G
		  gains tax 47
		  Garage Sale Manual 59
		  Getting To Yes 54
		  goal-oriented 52
		  grace period 2
		  graduated payment mortgage 7
		  Great Depression 13
		  gross profit 44
		  ground lease 36
		  group insurance policies 56
		  growing equity mortgage 7
		  guarantee 9
		  H
		  Hall, Annie 4
		  hang-ups 53
		  Hewlett Packard 12C 24
		  Holmes, Oliver Wendall 16
		  How I Turned $1,000 Into $5,000,000 in Real Estate in My Spare Time 20
		   
	 How to Manage Residential Property for Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value 53
		  How to Manage Residential Property for Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value 53
		  How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years 3
		  How to Write a Nothing Down Offer 18
		  I
		  IBM 14
		  if loan 7
		  improvement 48
		  imputed interest 42, 43
		  imputed interest rules 44, 43
		  income pattern 8
		  income tax 10
		  index 7
		  inflation 23, 31, 41
		  installment sale 42, 44, 46
		  Installment Sale Correction Act of 2000 43
		  insurance companies 7
		  interest 26, 43, 48
		  interest only loan 37
		  interest rate 31
		  Internal Revenue Code 42
		  IRB 1988-37 47
		  irregular 7
		  IRS 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 54
		  IRV formula 31
		  K
		  Kaplan, Jay 39
		  keeping speed up 11
		  Kelley Blue Book 58
		  kicker 40
		  L
		  land 23
		  land contract 8, 28, 35, 36, 46, 47
		  late penalty 2
		  Laventhol and Horwath 47
		  Law of Large Numbers 6
		  law of supply and demand 37
		  lease 47, 48
		  lease financing 42
		   
	 lease option 8, 48
		  lease option 8, 48
		  Ledford court case 47
		  lender policy 53
		  level payment 8
		  Lichtman court case 47
		  life insurance companies 56
		  linear process 54
		  loan officer 51
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		  Index
		  loan size 53
		  loan-to-value ratio 11
		  locked-in loan 7
		  long-term capital gains 44
		  long-term lease 14
		  loyalty 56
		  M
		  Maddox court case 47
		  mail fraud 3
		  Makar, Bruce 10
		  market value 32
		  Marner, Silas 20
		  master-metered 53
		  mathematics of finance 24
		  Mayer, Martin 51
		  median existing home sale price 23
		  minimum interest rates 43
		  mortgage 42
		  mortgage broker fee 49
		  Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Corporation
		  8
		  mortgage insurance 53
		  mortgage payment 24
		  N
		  National Association of Realtors® 28
		  negative amortization 37
		  negative cash flow 12, 57
		  negotiating 4, 16
		   
	 negotiating tricks 54
		  negotiating tricks 54
		  net appreciation 10
		  net lease 14
		  new car effect 10
		  Nickerson, William 20
		  Nierenberg, Gerard 54
		  nobody’s market 32
		  nonacquiesced 47
		  Nothing Down 55
		  NPV 27
		  O
		  OID Rules 44
		  opportunity cost 23, 11
		  option 42
		  ordinary income 44
		  OREO 56
		  Original Issue Discount rules 43
		  overall debt-coverage ratio 13
		  overall loan-to-value ratio 11
		  overall return 10
		  owner-occupant 3
		  P
		  Pacific Palisades 3
		  paper 29
		  partner 56
		  paying for 37
		  payment pattern 4, 12
		  People Check List 55, 56
		  people-to-people financing 28
		  personal characteristics 13, 28
		  personal liability 5, 26, 55
		  personal property 59
		  phantom income 46
		  pledged savings account 53
		  points 27, 44, 53, 55
		  positive cash flow 25, 57
		  prepaid interest 48
		  prepayment bonus 44
		   
	 prepayment penalty 48, 57
		  prepayment penalty 48, 57
		  present value 26
		  pressure tactics 54
		  primary source of repayment 48
		  principal 47
		  private mortgage insurance 53
		  process-oriented 52
		  psychological warfare 54
		  R
		  rapport 52, 54
		  Reagan, President Ronald 3
		  real estate agent 28, 41, 13, 55
		  Real Estate Investing Letter 18, 41
		  Real Estate Investor’s Monthly 39
		  recession 1
		  refinancing 2, 17
		  relationship 55, 56
		  reputation 10
		  return on current equity 10
		  return on equity 9
		  return on original investment 3
		  Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 47
		  Revenue Ruling 82-202 44
		  risk averse 51
		  Roulac, Stephen 41
		  S
		  salary 16
		  sale-leaseback 43
		  Santa Claus conspiracy 29
		  Schlaes & Young Information Systems
		  18
		  Scrooge McDuck 20
		  Seattle, WA 6
		  secondary market 57
		  secondary source of repayment 12
		   
	 security deposit 59
		  security deposit 59
		  security instrument 7
		  seller financing 32, 28
		  sellers 11
		  sellers’ markets 32
		  Selling Income Property Successfully 60
		  shop around 52
		  Simplification of Imputed Interest Rules 43
		  single-family house 55
		  Single-Family Lease Options 48
		  spreadsheet 26
		  Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The 18
		  Standard College Dictionary 41
		  standard deal 6
		  Stonecrest Corporation 46
		  Stonecrest court case 46
		  stretch-then-slide 8
		  subject to 33
		  sub-prime 2
		  subsidies 37
		  substance over form 42
		  substitution of collateral 8
		  survey 49
		  T
		  target loan-to-value ratio 10, 11
		  Tax Court 54
		  tax exempt bonds 58
		  tax ramifications 44
		  Tax Reform Act of 1984 43
		   
	 Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999 43, 38
		  Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999 43, 38
		  tax shelter 29, 24
		  Temporary Regulation 15A.453-1(b)(3)(ii) 47
		  terms 8
		  third-party negotiator 23
		  Three C’s of Credit 30
		  time value of money 49
		  U
		  United Pacific Corp. 46
		  unsecured loans 11
		  Ury, William 54
		  U.S. Government bond 14
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		  V
		  VA 7, 19, 37
		  vacancy rate 13
		  values 31
		  vector 32
		  Visa 1
		  Voight court case 47
		  W
		  Waldrip court case 47
		  West Point 19
		  what if 3
		  wife’s name 14
		  WPPS 28
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