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By Corey Curwick on July 12th, 2010
In 2003, while completing my MBA, I believed then that virtual office was the certain future. My peers and mentors all scoffed at the idea.
“People will never give up their offices.”
“Companies will never allow their employees the f...
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Is the future of commercial real estate gloomy for investors? If small business continues to be deprived of wo...Hard Money
Since the onset of the new year, I’m beginning to see interest rates trend downward. And this is obviously g...Private Money
You aren’t the only one who is having a tough time financing commercial property under $1 MM. Banks just a...News
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In 2003, while completing my MBA, I believed then that virtual office was the certain future. My peers and mentors all scoffed at the idea. “People will never give up their offices.” “Companies will never allow their employees the freedom to work from home.” Seven, short years later, mor...
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Since the onset of the new year, I’m beginning to see interest rates trend downward. And this is obviously good news for borrowers who need non-bank financing. With such a shortage of cash over the last two years, it seemed that there were just too many good deals chasing a limited supply of cash....
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The Truth About Banks and Lending I convinced a banker friend to submit to an anonymous interview with me. I agreed to keep the dialogue in the interview completely confidential and anonymous. For this reason, he was able to admit some pretty shocking things to me. Things that bankers just ...
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You aren’t the only one who is having a tough time financing commercial property under $1 MM. Banks just aren’t lending right now on the following types of property: · Mixed-Use Commercial under $1 MM · Multi-Family Commercial under $500K · Retail Commercial under $500K Even if the prop...
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Many of my private lenders have already unleashed their loan programs for 2010. Many of these loan programs have more favorable interest rates than some programs we’ve been seeing in 2009. And with all types of real estate being offered at 35 to 55 percent of its value, hard money even turns o...
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Is the future of commercial real estate gloomy for investors? If small business continues to be deprived of working capital and eventually forced to close up shop, what is the future of retail, office, and industrial real estate? It’s been a “feeding frenzy” in commercial real estate. But ev...
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A LinkedIn member, Elaine M. Lyles, posted a July 12th news article that I wanted to start a discussion on. The article that Elaine posted from the Washington Examiner is titled, “Second Wave of Real Estate Crisis to Hit Commercial Property Market.” The author, William Flook, seems to have no i...
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I wanted to continue the thread, from a couple of previous posts, on the topic of ‘getting your deals funded quickly.’ This posting revisits this important topic again; so I’ve decided to title it ‘Part III.’ I did a post back in February called, “How to Fund a Hard Money Loan Qui...
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Twenty years ago, private money or hard money interest rates were well into the 35% range–the same rates that, these days, only credit card companies have been able to get away with. Well, until now. Even with the credit crunch, the highest interest rates in hard money have typically loom...
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I think we all probably know someone who is having a heck of a time finding construction financing. Good project, good borrowers, but the bank just won’t budge an inch? This is a common story in our market. What about developers who are in the middle of a good project when their banker calls i...







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