What is an Exit Strategy for a Hard Money Loan?

When you get a hard money, private money loan to purchase an investment property, a lender may ask you, “what is your exit strategy?” An exit strategy is simply, your plan for paying the loan back, or your “exit” for that loan. Here are a few examples.

Let’s say that you use a hard money loan to purchase a property to fix and flip. In this case, your exit strategy would be to renovate the property and resell the property as your exit strategy for paying the loan back.

What about a rental property? Let’s say you use a hard money loan to purchase a rental property. What’s your exit strategy? Typically, your exit strategy is to get a long-term, permanent mortgage on that property to pay off the hard money loan.

If you use a hard money loan to buy an investment property, another example of an exit strategy is that you may have other assets that you could liquidate and then take that money from the liquidation of those assets and pay off the hard money loan.

When you take out a hard money, private money loan that tends to be a really short-term loan with a high interest rate, you need to have at least two plans for paying that loan back. If your first plan fails, then you have a secondary exit strategy for paying that loan back.

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Corey Curwick Dutton, MBA Park City, Utah

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Corey Curwick Dutton, MBA Park City, Utah - 2005 MBA Graduate with 10 years experience in Business Management including International Management. Corey is a Private Money Lender and Loan Officer. In her spare time Corey enjoys writing on topics in the private money lending industry. She also enjoys hobbies such as mountain biking and skiing in the great outdoors of Utah.