Most distressed sales are going to smaller-volume buyers and, increasingly, owner-occupants. Large-volume homebuyers ramped up property acquisitions in the first half of 2021, but these are not your father’s institutional buyers. Unlike a decade ago, when Wall Street-backed hedge funds and other institutional investors swooped into the housing market and scooped up hundreds of thousands [...]
Personal property assets can be used as collateral when the value of the borrower’s property does not meet a lender’s requirements. Nearly every mortgage broker and lender has dealt with a loan in which the value of the real property offered as collateral is insufficient to meet the underwriting requirements. As an alternative to changing [...]
A development project near the West 7th neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, provides much-needed housing inventory in one of DFW’s hottest districts. The DFW area has experienced astounding growth in recent years. Companies like Charles Schwab, Toyota, and Amazon have moved to the area, and in 2020, DFW ranked first in raw population growth. The [...]
Simple spreadsheets may seem like an easy way to manage your leads, deals, and client data; however, there are better solutions. From the get-go, many private lenders use Microsoft Excel as the software solution for tracking all aspects of their businesses. That’s really not surprising, given its familiarity and versatility. It is a well-known tool [...]
Understanding when to work with certain types of lenders saves project time and money. As a real estate investor for more than 20 years, I have had the pleasure of working with both “private lenders” as well as “private investors.” It is important to develop relationships with both types of lenders, because different projects have [...]
Get the most out of the bankruptcy: Know your rights and what you can and can’t do. As part of a series of articles discussing strategies for private lenders to work with bankrupt borrowers, this piece examines options for getting the most out of your claim during bankruptcy proceedings. When a borrower files for bankruptcy, [...]
Understand your options for diversifying capital as your lending business grows. In the private lending space, businesses are built on a foundation of strong relationships. Your borrowers will hopefully be clients for years or even decades. Before you became a full-time private lender, you may have already been lending to these folks for years out [...]
Each quarter, we ask one of our committees to weigh in on a topic. These broad, open-ended questions allow for a wide range of responses to better explore the full scope of an issue. This quarter, we asked our Ethics Advisory Committee to tell us what they think private lenders can (and should!) be doing [...]
Before you approve any advertising campaign, make sure it adheres to ethical and legal guidelines. When you hear “attack ad,” you probably think “political ad.” Although mudslinging political ads may be the most recognizable example of attack ads, these ads are commonplace in many industries, including among private lenders. Playing up your own company’s strengths [...]
Here’s AAPL’s position on IRS code, section 199A. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted Section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code in 2017. This legislation created a 20% tax deduction for qualified business income for pass-through companies (e.g., limited liability companies, subchapter S corporations, and limited partnerships). It also authorized a 20% deduction for [...]
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