An Unexpected Journey
Susan Naftulin navigated a career from history major to fashion retail to private lending and entrepreneurship—a path she never envisioned. Susan Naftulin is an unexpected entrepreneur. Perhaps no one was more surprised than she was [...]
An Insider’s View of Fund Management
Here’s an overview of what you need to know if you plan to launch your own fund—or if you’re just curious about how funds work. This is the first in a short series of articles [...]
New Member Discount: Fund Administration with High Divide Management
High Divide Management is the American Association of Private Lender's newest Member Discount partner, providing boutique fund administration and accounting services to direct lenders. The company's founder launched the business after seeing firsthand how underserved [...]
Last Call: If it Sounds Too Good to Be True…
As lending restrictions tighten, make sure you aren’t being contacted about a great offer by a scammer impersonating a legitimate lender. I guide investors on how to make money in the real estate business. I’ve [...]
5 Tech-Driven Strategies for Accelerating Reach and Revenue
Private lenders that leverage technology can realize tremendous business growth. Lending businesses can transform their results by using technology-enabled strategies that increase their reach and boost bottomline revenue. Technology makes interactions between financial institutions and [...]
Titan Talk: The Titan of Local Capital
Tom Meade is dominating the Boston market. Filmed on location, Titan Talk is a one-on-one interview between a titan of either the real estate investment or a supporting industry and Eddie Wilson, CEO of the [...]
What Is the Biggest Legislative Challenge Facing the Private Lending Industry?
This year, AAPL’s Government Relations Committee (GRC) has tackled a wide range of issues on behalf of the private lending community. In New York, Senate Bill S3060E sought to increase the transfer tax on fix-and-flip [...]
California’s Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 Becomes Law
Here’s what lenders need to know about how it protects tenants and landlords. On Aug. 31, 2020, AB 3088, known as the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020, was signed [...]
Mythbusting for Private Lenders: Securities Edition
Are you a private lender? Nonconventional lender? Mortgage broker? It’s essential for you, as a private lender, to remember that if you are raising capital from investors, you are selling securities, and you need to [...]
Reverse Mortgages Increase in Popularity
Reverse mortgages offer advantages to private lenders who understand how they work, even when not part of lenders’ product offerings. With the coronavirus crisis still looming, conventional loans requiring monthly mortgage payments have been getting [...]
How elections affect real estate investors – and what you can do about it
Whether the results of the presidential election have left you elated or disappointed, it’s a good reminder that as a real estate investor, you have far more important things to focus on. Don’t let the [...]
Applications Open for AAPL Committees
Nearly all the American Association of Private Lender’s efforts to support the private lending industry operate under our three pillars: Education, Ethics, and Advocacy. To support these pillars, we appoint AAPL members from across the [...]
AAPL to launch private lending industry’s first impartial benchmark survey
As the oldest and largest association representing the private and peer-to-peer lending industry, we regularly receive requests from lenders, researchers, and legislators about everything from the size and scope of the industry all the way [...]
Member Spotlight | Kendra Rommel
"Whatever you do today ... do it with the confidence of a four-year-old in a Batman Cape." - Unknown If ever there were words to live by, this modern take on confidence and self-motivation is [...]
Title Policy Endorsements 101
Lenders should understand the common title policy endorsements to the industry-standard 2006 ALTA Loan Policy. Title insurance protects mortgage lenders when defects in a title to a property result in financial loss to the lender. [...]
The Accidental Bait-and-Switch: Is This You?
Bait-and-switch lending is one of the most significant ethical challenges private lenders face today. There are more lenders now than there were just a few years ago, and the lending environment has become hypercompetitive in [...]
From the Corner Office: Your Association Update
As 2020 closes, any reflection of the past months reaches the same conclusion: This. Year. Has. Been. Hard. The thing that’s held us together is that regardless of what’s going on in the wider world, [...]
A Deep Dive Into Capital Markets and the Lending Food Chain
It’s 9 p.m.—do you know where your capital is? The novel coronavirus has had some very bad effects on the non-bank lending business. Never before has the lender food chain become so apparent. It’s become [...]
‘Highways and Hedges’ Housing Markets Ripe for Rental Returns
Investors in Dayton, Ohio, provide template for converting distressed homes into cash-flowing rentals. Not commonly known as a housing hot spot, Dayton, Ohio, has become the market of choice for real estate investors Scott Stuber [...]
What Will the Future of Lending Look Like?
Here’s how the economic crisis will change lending as lenders and their borrowers recover. As we navigate “The New Abnormal,” otherwise known as the post-COVID era, there is much conversation about recovery in the lending [...]
