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...

If a loan has to be funded quickly, the Loan to Value is a factor which determines how quickly the loan could be funded.  (Not the only factor but a factor). Private Money lenders are obviously more conservative with loan to value now than they were even six months ago.  Particularly on less desir...

Real estate investors with access to Short-Sales, Foreclosures, and REOs rely on hard money to take advantage of rare opportunities.  When flipping a property, hard money is just a tool to acquire it and make a decent buck quickly. However, unless these same properties are resold at fire sale or de...

Once you’ve made the decision to borrow private money, you must know what your exit strategy is and you should even have multiple exit strategies.  Without a clear exit, you will never get a private money lender to give you the time of day! In the process of devising a clear exit strategy it ...

Depending on who you talk to, most everyone will tell you that private money is just a nice way to say ‘hard money.’  Since the word ‘hard’ just sounds so, well, hard, most investors or brokers think you mean hard money when you use the term private money.  However, the world of private mo...

With the credit markets so tight while real estate is being offered at 50% or less of its value, it’s a frustrating time for real estate investors in Utah.  Particularly for investors and business owners who have a stated-income status, private money and hard money is slowly becoming the rule...