If you look out for the best interest of your investor and do your due diligence, these loans can provide a great return. As the COVID-19 crisis has ravaged many parts of the real estate market, one of the standout sectors has been homebuilding. Interest rates are at record lows. Many families are migrating to [...]
AAPL advocates for national business-purpose loan exemption from mortgage licensing. Generally, private lenders in states that require a mortgage lender license to make a business-purpose loan are already licensed, and those in states that do not require a license are not licensed. What is probably more surprising is that private lenders who make loans in [...]
Borrowers filing for bankruptcy is normal, but you must have a good plan and a good bankruptcy attorney to help you get the highest recovery in the shortest amount of time. This is the first in a four-part series about practical steps to take when a borrower declares bankruptcy. This first article provides an overview [...]
Make sure your properties are appropriately covered if the expected wave of foreclosures hits. Foreclosures are expected to surge in 2021 because of the pandemic and subsequent financial crisis. Some people believe they may double (or worse). As a lender, you must be prepared secure insurance on these properties. Whether you are a large lending [...]
How easily can you reposition your business model to weather the bad times? Unprecedented. Pivot. Peloton. Puppies. Quarantine. Zoom. These are just some of the words that have come to embody our current environment. How did we get here? In January 2020, the private lending space and the economy were humming along. At my company, [...]
As Q4 2020 wraps, we are in the midst of an absolute housing boom. This is undeniable and beyond that, it’s happening in the middle of a recession. Existing home prices are surging. New home building is up. Sales are way up! Many construction company stock prices are at record highs. The fed has taken [...]
There is a lot of money to be made in the real estate investment business. But while the HGTV celebrities make it look easy, for the rest of us, success is all about putting in that sweat equity. Of course, you probably also need access to cash to make your flipping or new construction dreams [...]
What does this mean under a Biden presidency? This is a follow-up to “The Future of the CFPB Is at Stake,” published in the Q2 2020 issue of Private Lender. On June 29, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its highly anticipated decision in Seila Law vs. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [...]
Government intervention in the housing and lending markets through eviction and foreclosure moratoriums is impacting private lenders’ ability to deploy capital and originate loans. To say things have changed in 2020 would be the understatement of the century. Efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 have impacted all facets of life. Real estate and real [...]
CIVIC Financial Services LLC (CIVIC) has a new parent company in a deal its president says was truly a boon for all parties. “The win-win moniker is grossly overused and overstated. But, God as my witness, this is one of those deals where each of the three parties won,” CIVIC President William J. Tessar told [...]
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