{"id":35,"date":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","slug":"marion-county-in-land-contract-cautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/marion-county-in-land-contract-cautions\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion County, in Land Contract Cautions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/cynthia-starks\/land-contract-risks-b03e\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Land contracts let buyers pay sellers instead of using a mortgage, but Marion County buyers typically did not receive the deed until final payment.<br \/>\nMarion County\u2019s homeownership rate was ~55%, yet a local housing review said that headline number masked racial disparities in who could access traditional ownership.<br \/>\nA local review of 600 Marion County contracts found ~85% went to Hispanic-sounding names, while four firms accounted for ~41% of recorded deals.<br \/>\nIn a review of ~40 Marion County contracts, default terms let sellers pursue eviction without notice, and some buyers were potentially removed without any filing.<br \/>\nPossible protections included requiring land contracts to be filed with the county clerk and clarifying default terms, steps lawmakers discussed but had not finalized.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land contracts let buyers pay sellers instead of using a mortgage, but Marion County buyers typically did not receive the deed until final payment. Marion County\u2019s homeownership rate was ~55%, yet a local housing review said that headline number masked racial disparities in who could access traditional ownership. A local review of 600 Marion County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthiastarkshomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}