When purchasing an asset, financing should not affect the ultimate value of the property because each buyer has different financing options available.

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Reaching investment grade status was one of GM's prime motivations for seeking a buyer for its profitable financing arm in the first place.

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General Motors ' financing arm has a buyer but not a coveted investment-grade credit rating.

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Housing markets may be forever doomed to cyclicality for many reasons, but public policies that stimulate new construction or home purchases by tax and financing subsidies, reduction of qualifying incomes, buyer credits, mortgage backstopping, and preferential zoning and permitting, only intensify these cycles.

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Many small businesses are sold with seller financing, meaning he would get a portion of the price up front, and then the buyer would pay the rest of the purchase price from company earnings over the next few years.

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