My Favorite Option Deal

When asked about my favorite Option deal, one Pure Option transaction stands above all the rest. This deal goes back to 2010. We were in the heart of the Great Recession. Foreclosures were occurring by the thousands, and banks we’re falling like dominoes. Fear...

Lease Option with an Owner Financed Kicker

Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared three Pure Option Deals with you. With the first deal, we acquired a Pure Option from a homeowner who didn’t want to sell his home.  Because we agreed to pay the owner’s property taxes, which allowed the owner to keep...

Homerun Deal!

In the last article, I told you how I lost $217,300 because I FAILED to do a Pure Option Deal on a property in Adairsville, Georgia.  (A video about this deal is now posted on our website at BillandKimCook.com) This article is about a deal I structured two months...

Example of a Pure Option at Work

In 2020, I knocked on the door of a homeowner.  I told him we loved his neighborhood and wanted to buy a home there.  Did he know anyone thinking of selling? As it turned out, he was about to put his home up for sale because he and his wife could no longer afford to...

How to Structure Safer Deals

When Kim and I were new investors, debt leverage didn’t bother us one bit.  We didn’t consider many deals to be too risky.  We were young.  We were hard chargers. That was nearly 30 years ago.  Today, Kim and I are in our sixties.  We’re focused on safety – we don’t...
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