Use these tools for valuing a property and vetting your borrower. When private lenders get together, they may find themselves engaging in a discussion about which is more important for winning a race— the “horse” or the “jockey.” It goes something like this: When you underwrite a loan, do you rely more on the merits [...]
Many commercial banks are already funding private lenders in your area and are interested in expanding. Private lending can be financially rewarding and highly enjoyable. It is a fantastic way to get exposure to short-term investing, ultimately secured by real estate via a mortgage, without the heavy lifting of flipping properties. Private lending is a [...]
Private money lending is a team sport. Private lending is not like other real estate investing strategies where a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach can be beneficial and save time and money. Setting up and vetting a virtual team for your private lending endeavors is critical for successfully and safely closing and funding loans—even if you do [...]
When you are considering an investment, don’t make the mistake of relying solely on opinions and experience rather than on data. Relationship building and networking are paramount to success for the small, independent private lender. These low-key lenders tend to fly under the radar. They don’t publicly advertise and typically do not have a brand [...]
Just don’t forget that moving one lever impacts the entire project you’re funding. As a private lender, there are a lot of levers you can pull to mitigate risk, including changing terms to offset the risk of a loan. Remember, risk tolerance is less about a number and more about how you feel sleeping at [...]
One investor recounts his journey into private lending and the factors he considered as he scaled. Similar to the experience of other private lenders, my first opportunity in the industry fell in my lap. I graduated from a small technical engineering school in Massachusetts with a degree in computer science in 2016 and was working [...]
Don’t forget that when you push and pull levers, moving one lever can impact the entire project you’re funding. As a private lender, there are a lot of levers you can pull to mitigate risk, including changing terms to offset the risk of a loan. Remember, risk tolerance is less about a number and more [...]
This article was co-authored with Alex Breshears. Here’s how to avoid serious missteps when ROI appears too good to be true. It’s no secret there’s a lot of capital chasing yield right now. With historically low interest rates in the U.S. for a few years, many investments are seeing diminished returns. As a small or [...]
Equity buffers are one of the most important ways to protect your private money investment from speeding out of control. The first article in our Back to Basics series stressed that not making data-driven decisions about who to lend to and what to lend on can leave you in a tough position—and put your principal [...]
No matter how well you think you know a person, be sure to perform fact-based due diligence before you make a lending decision. Do you place significant value on your relationships with your best borrowers? If you do, you’re not alone. And because you value those seasoned, well-qualified investors so highly, you—like many institutional private [...]
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