Ron Legrand – Work For Equity

Ron Legrand – Work For Equity

It was 1989, and I’d been buying and selling houses for over seven years and completed several hundred deals. All were either wholesale flipping or rehabs I’d done and sold to owner occupants.

This was three years after the 1986 tax law change that turned the real estate world upside down and created chaos in the business. The economy wasn’t great, interest rates were high, and real estate was getting slaughtered in the news.

I’d just closed on the purchase of a house on Prospect St. on the westside of Jacksonville, FL, my home town.

The after-repaired value was about $80,000 with $10,000 in repairs. I borrowed $40,000 from one of my private lenders to cover my $20,000 purchase price, repairs and closing costs and brought home about $9,000 for other use…i.e., my personal account.

My intent was to rehab the house just as I’d done a couple of hundred times prior.

I had the crews lined up, I knew the business, and it was just another deal. Little did I know this ugly little house would soon become a game changer for years to come and create a whole new exit strategy I’d use many times.

That day, I had someone put a sign in the front yard that said…

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