I Want to Borrow $100,000 From My Father-in-Law to Buy a Rental Property
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
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| 0:06.6 | My wife and I are looking, taking a $100,000 loan from my father to buy an eight-unit rental property. |
| 0:14.9 | And I just kind of want to see what you guys thought based on the details of the property and everything else. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, let's hear it because not super excited about this. |
| 0:28.0 | So now taking it alone, but from your father-in-law. |
| 0:31.1 | But yeah, give me your numbers. |
| 0:33.2 | What are you thinking? |
| 0:34.7 | Okay, so I got a $900,000 property at 3% interest owner finance. And so it's going to be |
| 0:44.2 | $100,000 of my money, a $100,000 loan from my dad. And then the owner is willing to do $100,000 |
| 0:52.6 | of in-kind money, is what she calls it. |
| 0:56.0 | And that includes repairs and improvements on the property for a period of 10 years. |
| 1:03.6 | And then she's also willing to mentor my wife and I for two years, the first two years that we own the home. And then at the end of the 10 years, |
| 1:12.8 | it's going to be a balloon payment. And I know this kind of goes against a lot of the day brandy, |
| 1:19.5 | I guess, principles. But I wanted to see what you guys thought, because I think it might be a good |
| 1:24.7 | opportunity for us to kind of get a business and start moving |
| 1:28.6 | that way. |
| 1:29.3 | Do you guys own a home currently, a primary home? |
| 1:32.7 | Yes, we do own a home currently, and we have no debts or payments at all, besides that house. |
| 1:39.1 | Oh, besides the house. |
| 1:40.0 | What's left on that mortgage? |
| 1:42.7 | $190,000. |
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