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Manage Every Loan Like It’s Day One

Great servicing teams drive loyalty and stop losses before they start. Private lenders spend considerable effort building, fostering, and maintaining relationships. Often, this experience allows them to understand the operational risk associated with a loan, [...]

By |October 1st, 2025|Operations|

This is the Market

We’ve been hearing the same recycled phrases for half a decade now: “turbulent times,” “market uncertainty,” “volatility.” These aren’t excuses anymore. This is the market. Adapt. At a recent leadership roundtable, a broker asked how [...]

By |October 1st, 2025|Corner Office|

Spot Straw Buyers Before They Burn You

Assignment layering and masked entities are turning routine deals into high-risk traps. Straw buyer fraud in hard money lending often reveals itself through contract assignments within wholesale transactions. Fraudsters often try to obscure their identity [...]

By |September 17th, 2025|Fraud|

Make Title an Advantage, Not a Bottleneck

A strategic title partner can accelerate closings, safeguard reputation, and support long-term portfolio growth. Not all title companies are created equal, especially when it comes to business-purpose loans. The right title partner understands the urgency, [...]

By |September 3rd, 2025|Operations|

Doubt Is My Edge

I found success when I rewrote my inner voice and stopped playing small. There was a time—not long ago—when the phrase “women don’t raise capital like men do” echoed a little too loudly at lending [...]

By |September 3rd, 2025|Last Call|

Member Spotlight | Samonae Carter

Our September Member Spotlight shines on Samonae Carter How long has Micro Monies been an AAPL member? We just joined! What benefit are you most looking forward to from membership/why did you join the association? [...]

By |September 1st, 2025|Member Spotlight|

Pay Now or Pay Later

Investing in the right people is often less expensive than the hidden costs of hiring mistakes. Success is powered by people. Every loan funded, process streamlined, and relationship managed ties back to the talent working [...]

By |August 20th, 2025|Human Resources|

Appraised to Fail

From comps to construction costs, lenders who question everything stand the best chance of protecting themselves from fraud. Private lenders face a material risk of fraud, and the cases have become increasingly more sophisticated. Mix [...]

By |August 20th, 2025|Fraud|

Multifamily Is Winning the RTL Recovery

Underwriting corrections and stronger sponsor quality have fueled a sharp rebound in multifamily residential transition loans while other segments remain volatile. By Sam Kaddah, Liquid Logics, and Aleksandra Simanovsky, Adige Advisory In the historically opaque [...]

By |August 6th, 2025|Market|

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