Put Video Marketing to Work for You
The popularity of video marketing in the private lending industry continues to skyrocket. According to the State of the Video Market report from Wyzowl Research, 86% of businesses currently incorporate video as part of their [...]
Is Real Estate Topping Out?
Or, is there still room for higher values? During most of 2020, as coronavirus cases heightened, some real estate investors were nervous, believing that after a seven-year run-up in residential real estate values, we were [...]
The Benefits of Outsourced Fund Administration
Hiring a knowledgeable fund administrator can help relieve you from non-core, operational back-office functions and enhance your business A growing trend among investment fund managers is to outsource back-office accounting and administration. Outsourcing allows fund [...]
Piecing the Puzzle Together
Kristina Sawyer draws on experience in all aspects of real estate to offer a cohesive product and experience. When she was young, Kristina Sawyer never thought she’d work in real estate. As it turns out, [...]
2021 Multifamily Lending Market Trends
Optimism continues to be the mood of the year for the multifamily industry. Editor’s Note: We is used as a reference to “the investor.” Rate quotes in this article are sourced from TMUBMUSD10Y | U.S. [...]
3 Trends Point to More Housing Inventory
Supply influx converging with affordability-weakened demand would dampen price appreciation. An imbalance between low supply and high demand has pushed U.S. home prices up by double-digit percentages for nine consecutive months, capped by a record [...]
5 Strategies for Winning With Data
Private lenders can master the art of earning repeat business by leveraging customer data. In a world of infinite choices at your customers’ fingertips, capturing their repeat business might seem far-fetched. You’ll be surprised to [...]
Key Processes for Successfully Managing Construction Loans
Following these suggestions for project review and loan draws will help you define repeatable processes and reduce risk. Construction lending can be highly profitable, and the demand for this type of financing continues to grow. [...]
Introducing AAPL’s 2021-2022 Committees
Meet the committee members who will be the association’s advisors in three critical areas: education, advocacy, and ethics. During the past decade, we’ve zeroed in on three distinct areas that have grown to form the [...]
INSIDE THE DEAL: MY EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH A PRIVATE LENDER
Solve this one thing, and you’ll mint customers for life. My experience working with private lenders goes back to my second deal, which was more than 20 years ago in 2001. The truth of the [...]
HMDA Compliance
Many private lenders consider HMDA compliance and reporting to be a substantial burden. Dealing with needless government regulation and reporting is high on the list of frustrations small business owners face. The Home Mortgage Disclosure [...]
Judicial vs. Non-Judicial Foreclosure
Consider these tips to analyze which method is best to protect your investment. As lenders set their sights on growth, one of the most tried-and-true ways to grab more business is to expand into new [...]
Borrowers in Bankruptcy
Here’s what you need to know about the automatic stay—and strategies for getting past it. As part of a series of articles discussing strategies for private lenders to deal with bankrupt borrowers, this piece takes [...]
A CRITICAL LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE FUND STRUCTURES
In “An Insider’s View of Fund Management,” an article in the Winter 2021 issue of Private Lender, we intentionally left readers hanging about why Nexus Private Capital didn’t follow conventional wisdom when it came to [...]
UBTI and Mortgage Debt Funds
Make sure you understand the laws and tax consequences surrounding UBTIs. Unrelated Business Taxable Income (UBTI) is income that is regularly generated by a tax-exempt entity by means of taxable activities. This income is not [...]
Publish Your Closed Deals
Spreading the news about your funded transactions is an easy and effective content marketing strategy. Many private lending firms struggle to stay consistent with their marketing efforts, especially smaller operations that don’t have an in-house [...]
IRS Extends Opportunity Zone Fund Benefit
Ongoing pandemic spurs IRS decision to renew relief measures. In the recent IRS Notice 2021-10, the regulatory agency extended relief to Opportunity Zone Funds due to ongoing concerns stemming from the coronavirus. The announcement essentially [...]
Are You Accidentally Originating to Foreclose?
Consider these insights for being your borrowers’ watchdog—and building your reputation as an ethical lender. Originating to foreclosed on is also known in the lending business as “loan to own.” Loan to own can be [...]
ECHO PARK ‘CURATED’ CO-LIVING
A community of furnished bungalows in the trendy Echo Park area of Los Angeles exemplifies the importance of private lending. The Echo Park area of Los Angeles is what people imagine the “LA lifestyle” is [...]
NEW LAW IMPACTS NON-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURES
California enacts major changes to the non-judicial foreclosure process. In the final few months of 2020, much to the dismay and over the opposition of several industry groups, the California legislature approved, and the governor [...]
