How Many Real Estate Deals Have You Completed This Year?
Many of our real estate investors have commented recently that they were busier in 2010 and 2011 than in 2012. For example, one of our most active investors told me recently that he successfully...
View ArticleFive Most Common Questions About Hard Money Loans
The 5 Most Common Questions About Hard Money Loans For those who have never obtained a hard money loan, there are typically a lot of questions. Here are some of the most commons questions and answers...
View ArticleDesperate Overseas Borrowers Taken By Loan Scams
In the past week, we’ve had several inquiries for private money, non-bank loans from people overseas. One inquiry came from Europe, one from Kenya, and another from India. In all of these cases, the...
View ArticleInvestment Property Purchase Checklist
I had dinner with a real estate investor friend of mine last night who we’ve done a lot of hard money loans for in the past. We talked about some important things to look out for when buying your first...
View ArticleHard Money Loan Not the Same As an All Cash Offer
Many real estate agents do not understand how a hard money loan works. Yesterday I watched another agent help a first time real estate investor lose his earnest money on an investment property...
View ArticleGot Ugly Homes? Hard Money Rehab Loans Help Fix Up the Dog Houses in the...
It was easy to get rehab loans from the bank before the financial meltdown of 2008. However, these days it’s not that easy to obtain rehab loans from your bank. HELOC loans, which used to be readily...
View ArticleHard Money Lenders in Utah Provide Loans to Bad Credit Borrowers
Bank lending in Utah has gotten extremely tight with all of the new regulations imposed on lenders in the past few years. In the absence of bank lending, hard money lenders in Utah are answering the...
View ArticleBanks Use Every Reason to Decline Loans – Private Money Lenders Are Good...
A lot of people have experienced how hard it is to obtain a bank loan. Bank underwriting criteria in today’s lending environment is almost unbearable. There are a lot of loan brokers that have shared...
View Article3 Reasons a Hard Money Lender Will Decline a Real Estate Loan
I did a survey this year of all of the hard money lenders I know in the industry. The question I asked these hard money lenders was pretty simple: “Sometimes a real estate deal makes sense on paper but...
View ArticleBanks to Tighten Lending in 2013: Hard Money Loans May Be Solution
The rumor is that banks will tighten up lending even more in 2013 in the wake of fiscal uncertainty. Hard money loans from private money, non-bank lenders may be the solution for credit needs in 2013....
View ArticleHard Money Rehab Loans are Ideal for Distressed Asset Purchases
For foreclosures and other distressed assets in need of immediate repairs, hard money rehab loans are the easiest and by far the fastest loans to get for real estate investors. Particularly in the case...
View ArticleHow Does a Rehab Loan Work?
With so many foreclosures and short sales out there in need of repairs, buyers of these properties often ask us, “How does a rehab loan work?” Most of our clients are real estate investors who are...
View ArticleReal Estate Loans for Bad Credit Borrowers
For those seeking real estate loans for bad credit, consider using private money loans versus wasting your time at the bank. Particularly for loans on investment properties, forget about the bank...
View ArticleCommercial Hard Money Used to Acquire Real Estate
Many real estate investors have been acquiring investment properties using commercial hard money. Commercial hard money has allowed many investors in commercial real estate to acquire more properties...
View ArticleWhy Every Real Estate Investor Needs Private Money Loans
Opportunities seem to come in 3′s as they say. In real estate, opportunities always seem to come in 2′s and 3′s. Because the supply of inventory is tight in some U.S. markets, when good real estate...
View ArticleBridge Loan Financing in High Demand for Investors
Real estate investors and business owners have been aggressively seeking out bridge loan financing in recent months. Banks still remain quite conservative in their approach to lending on investment...
View ArticleCommercial Hard Money Lenders See New Demand Through 2015
Commercial real estate lending is opening up again and private money lenders, also called commercial hard money lenders, are leading the way. With the passage of the Basel III, which will regulate U.S....
View ArticleWhy You Can’t Afford to Live Without Private Money Lenders
Why is it that you can’t afford to lose your private money lenders? With so much foreclosure inventory coming off backlog from the first quarter of 2013, competition among real estate investors is...
View ArticleReal Estate Loans for Investors Not Based on Credit
Real estate investor loans are typically based on the asset being used for collateral and not the ability of the borrower to repay the loan. In other words, real estate loans for investors are not...
View ArticleR.E. Rehabbers Search for Hard Money Lenders in Utah
Utah real estate investors that focus on rehabs are continuously on the search for new hard money lenders in Utah. This is a State where nearly every hard money lender has the same loan programs as all...
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