Jason Fritton assumes CEO Position at Patch of Land
Patch of Land, a leading online real estate lending marketplace engineered to help real estate investors build wealth and generate cash-flow, has announced that Paul Deitch, the company’s CEO since April 2016 will be stepping [...]
LendingOne CEO Named Private Lender of The Year By Think Realty Honors
LendingOne is pleased to announce that its Founder and CEO Bill Green has been named 2017 Think Realty Honors Private Lender of the Year. Mr. Green is being honored with this distinguished award for his [...]
Real Estate Crowdfunders Turn to Auto-Invest
Ease of use and portfolio diversity among the benefits to investors By Brian Fritton, Chief Technology Officer at Patch of Land Automatic investment tools are gaining traction with real estate crowdfunding platforms as a way [...]
5 Ways to Get Crowdfunders to Notice and Fund Your Real Estate Deal
Like every other type of investment, real estate investment has changed significantly over the past several years. To remain successful, real estate investors must keep up with new ways of funding and conducting deals. One [...]
American Association of Private Lenders partners with Private Money Lending Guide
American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) has partnered with Private Money Lending Guide (PMLG). The partnership brings together an association that provides education, ethics and networking opportunities for private money lenders and a tool for [...]
Wall Street Veteran Joins PeerStreet To Lead Capital Markets Team
Louis Nees brings more than 30 years of experience to the growing fintech firm PeerStreet, an award-winning platform for investing in real estate backed loans, is excited to announce the appointment of Louis Nees as [...]
Applied Business Software Announces HMDA Readiness for The Mortgage Office®
Applied Business Software (“ABS”) announced the upcoming update to The Mortgage Office™ Loan Origination System (LOS) will be ready for the collection and reporting changes of the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and Regulation C [...]
Technology Brings Opportunity
It’s not just lenders and investors who benefit By Brew Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder, PeerStreet Historically, private lenders thrived by having strong relationships with local borrowers and the ability to fill a niche within the [...]
Unsecured Financing Solutions
There are dozens upon dozens of small businesses that open every day. Each is unique and carries its own specific set of strengths and weaknesses. However, they all have one major thing in common: they [...]
IRA-Eligible Loan Structures
Make Your IRA Work for What is Best for You By Clay Malcolm When it comes to private lending, or any other investment opportunity, investors are beginning to understand a fundamental truth: If I can [...]
Tax Reform or Tax Cuts?
The Trump Administration and the Republican Congressional leadership spent the last several months preparing to tackle legislation for corporate and personal income tax reform. As the 115th Congress sets out to take up this issue [...]
CFPB Launches New Portal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled its latest portal created to satisfy changes to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The agency gave the mortgage industry a first look at the gateway in August. [...]
American Association of Private Lenders Announced First Excellence Award Nominees
The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) announced the nominees for each category of the AAPL Excellence Awards: Members of the Year, Community Impact Award and Emerging Leader Award. The awards, running for the first [...]
THE CFPB Gives an Inside Look at Its New HMDA Portal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled its latest portal created to satisfy changes to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The agency gave the mortgage industry a first look at the gateway in August. [...]
Private Lender Capital Options
Having a robust, diversified and scalable capital structure is paramount for all financial firms. This includes large commercial and investment banks as well as private lenders. This means private lenders would have multiple sources of [...]
4 Steps to Creating a Customer
Often you hear the adage that it takes five to seven touches in marketing for someone to make a decision. Lifelong marketers and those who study trends have developed four steps every person takes before [...]
Building Your Private Money Lenders Dream Team
With the Right Players You Can Accomplish Anything Famously known as the “Dream Team,” the 1992 United States men’s Olympic basketball team not only won the gold medal but went down in history as one [...]
New Credit Reporting Rule Takes Effect
Most civil judgments and many tax liens won’t show up on borrowers’ credit reports A significant change has taken effect in how Americans’ credit reports are compiled, but it’s not clear yet exactly what impact [...]
China Running RE Development in U.S.
Over the last several years, Chinese investment has assumed an increasingly influential role in U.S. commercial real estate. In 2016 alone, Chinese investors spent $15.1 billion on commercial property here, representing 46 percent of Chinese [...]
AAPL Member Spotlight
Christopher Hoeffel from CoreVest American Finance, New York is our featured member this month. Here is a little more insight about himself and his business. How long have you been an AAPL member? Two Years [...]
