Editorial

Defined Demand for Fintech

By |2018-08-07T02:38:50-05:00June 19th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Elon Musk, founder and CEO at Tesla, just announced his company will add an electric semi-truck to their fleet of products. The immediate public assumption was that this innovation will do more than just improve the environment—it may follow Tesla’s consumer approach to make all driverless vehicles. If semi-trucks can eventually deliver goods without a [...]

By |2018-08-07T02:38:50-05:00June 19th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Trust Deed Investments: Know more than your brokerage

By |2021-06-08T13:55:23-05:00May 30th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Trust deed investing has long been misunderstood by investors and is often labeled as an “alternative” investment. Trust deed Ponzi schemes have taken many investors for a wild ride leading up to the Great Recession. Further tarnishing the image of trust deed investing. Investment blogs pushing stocks and mutual funds warn investors about “oddball investments” like [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:55:23-05:00May 30th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

The Private Lending Space Offers Benefits to Lenders and Borrowers

By |2021-06-08T13:43:36-05:00April 17th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

The roots of private lending date back thousands of years to Ancient Rome, when wealthy landowners and feudal lords used their land and property to obtain collateralized loans. Fast forward to modern times. Private lending has really come into its own since the economic crisis of 2008. Following the Great Recession and the ensuing heightened [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:43:36-05:00April 17th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

A Quick Guide on Lending to Foreign Nationals

By |2021-06-08T13:56:40-05:00April 10th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

How many times have you seen an ad about loans provided to foreign nationals but once you call, the answer you receive only causes more confusion?  There is a very simple way to correct the confusion. We need to understand how to distinguish between two different types of foreign nationals who acquire properties in the [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:56:40-05:00April 10th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

A Fair Housing Primer

By |2021-06-08T13:57:00-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Private Lenders Need to Be Aware of How the Fair Housing Act Can Impact Their Success. The Fair Housing Act was designed to protect against discrimination and unfair practices in the process of purchasing residential real estate, including applying for and acquiring a reasonable loan. For private lenders, it’s essential to understand how the Fair [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:57:00-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Deeper Meaning: Today’s Concept of Fair Housing Goes Beyond Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

By |2021-06-08T13:57:34-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

The Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) originally introduced meaningful federal enforcement of laws guaranteeing that no person could be denied the ability to buy or rent a dwelling because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin. Now the concept of fair housing has even broader [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:57:34-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

How an Investor Can Capitalize from Fannie Mae’s Rubber Stamp.

By |2018-08-07T02:39:04-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

January 2017: Fannie Mae announces it will back $1 billion in debt collateralized by single-family rental homes owned by Blackstone. Whether you are a private lender, new or seasoned real estate operator, or real estate agent, this is important news. The government has rubber-stamped that we are becoming more of a rental nation. How can [...]

By |2018-08-07T02:39:04-05:00April 3rd, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

A Handy Checklist for Hard Money Loan Monitoring

By |2021-06-08T13:58:48-05:00March 15th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

So you made a high-risk loan...now what? The actions a lender takes during the term of a loan can make or break the return. This article provides a best-practice checklist to help increase the likelihood of full recovery. There was a lot of hair on the deal, but the borrower seemed earnest and the risk-reward analysis [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:58:48-05:00March 15th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Financial Engineering for Real Estate Debt Can be a Market Differentiator

By |2018-08-07T02:39:07-05:00February 20th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Welcome to the world of financial engineering. Allow us to introduce you to the power and simplicity of some basic financial engineering techniques that will expand your business opportunities, allow you to entertain new lending strategies and help you understand that when Wall Street does financial engineering (referred to hereafter as FE), it is what [...]

By |2018-08-07T02:39:07-05:00February 20th, 2017|Editorial|0 Comments

Mortgage Industry is Unclear About CFPB’s New Servicing Rule

By |2021-06-08T13:59:16-05:00February 15th, 2017|Editorial, Market Trends|0 Comments

The mortgage industry is anticipating significant changes when it implements the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2016 Servicing Rule, but determining how those changes will affect operations will have to wait until the rule is fully implemented. The CFPB will not allow early compliance with the new regulations, which leaves the mortgage servicing industry left questioning [...]

By |2021-06-08T13:59:16-05:00February 15th, 2017|Editorial, Market Trends|0 Comments

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