Ford Family Dream Investments • Alchemy in practice
When the property wasn’t the only asset.
We looked beyond a distressed property’s reputation, carried out environmental diligence, structured a buyer-side note, then evaluated a second way to exit.
The opportunity others might pass over
A property’s reputation can overpower a buyer’s willingness to investigate. This one carried a stigma that required real environmental due diligence before we considered an exit. FFDI’s process began with a question: was the problem what people thought it was?
Two stages of value
The property moved into a seller-financed buyer arrangement, creating an additional asset: the payment obligation. Later, FFDI completed a separate Paperstac transaction selling that note for a documented $14,000 contractual price.
Buyer-side resale
$25,000
The executed owner-financed property sale price.
Later note sale
$14,000
Documented note-sale price, not net profit.
One lesson you can use immediately
Evaluate the property and the financing asset separately. What matters is not just the resale price, but the actual buyer arrangement and what the remaining note might be worth. The detailed diligence, buyer selection, note analysis, and deal-by-deal capital recovery method belong in the full Alchemy process or an appropriate FFDI discussion.
Historical auction commentary and the final closing terms are not interchangeable. This page uses the executed transaction figures; no investment or note-sale outcome is guaranteed.
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