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Friday, 12 July 2013

Investors Looking to Hard Money Lenders

By Tim Kelly


Those people who've been getting into buying properties at the trustees ' sales now know that the third party action has been rocketing dramatically during the past months. From a spread of sources, cash is flowing to the high bidders in higher and higher volume. More properties are to be revealed with equity added when banks offer properties at steep kickbacks below the sums due those lenders. It is said that the foreclosure market is a cleaning processâ€"-removing bad loans and properties that amassed during the up to date "real estate bubble".

You almost certainly already realise that you cannot go to a lender and ask for cash with which to make a cash bid on a property coming up at a trustee's sale. Hopefully, your own pockets are deep enough that you can buy at the sales with your very own cash. This is not true for most of us, especially when buying first (often bigger) loans. We can then seek other varying amounts of money from other informed real estate investors who are ready to start and continue on a long term basis in the foreclosure business.

Personally nevertheless , I suspect the consistent and most successful bidders today are those who associate with hard license money lender working with investors in property having limited capital. These financiers do not seek to add to their capital worth through property retention and appreciation but through the multiple amounts of money offered at attractive rates (for the bank) to these investors. Those investors consent to a short duration loan with which to pursue those unique properties offered at a discount at the curators ' sales.

The hard bank is a not an unhelpful lender since his short term loans have attractive IRs and loan costs. I understand that such loans today (early 2010) are going to be available at 12% interest with loan charges around 7% of the amount of the loan. The near term defaults on these loans barely happen since such loans are only available on properties with proven equity. Although there isn't any such thing as a risk-free property investment, the hard money lenders come near to approaching that ideal.

Understanding that purchase cash frequently can be had through hard cash banks to buyers of properties at the trustee's sales unscrambles the original investment need of the investor. It doesn't nevertheless , ease the issues purchasers face when financing the rehabilitated property acquired later from that investor.

The casual lending days which existed prior to the up to date monetary catastrophe are a thing of the past. No-doc and low-doc loans are an anathema to most home, purchaser lenders these days. The number and heights of the rings residential borrowers must jump through to get even an expensive loan are inspiring and daunting to several customers. Not only will the potential lender meticulously examine the borrowers credit but also current and future income capacities and existing liquid cash available to meet emergencies which could affect the facility to meet payments when due on the attendant promissory notes. No stone is left unturned, and no slight of hand related to the loans will be toleratedâ€"-now. This, of course, is the opposite of the lender's position until the finance disintegration. (Who was accountable for this disaster? It actually looks like the banks and borrowers themselves)

The residential lending system appears focused on not stepping into the deep morass into which they stepped lately. Of course, the legislative council is working diligently to make it hard to repeat the current fiasco, yet it seems that current legislation appear in time to mend old issues.

Since it is difficult for the clients to be accepted for home loans, the real estate financier with a selection of cash sources available with which to get properties at the trustee's sale now encounters a second problem. Where do the buyers of the properties bought at the sales find the money with which to purchase the rehabilitated properties? Cash is tight. Banks are tightfisted. Restrictions on borrowers are at a unparalleled level. Do you see the paradox that I see here? It is going to be interesting to discover how current loan alterations and limitations are changed to permit the purchaser to begin the home purchasing process with confidence.




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