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Updated 16 days ago on . Most recent reply

Loan affected by adding unit to a quad?
Hello, please bear with me as I'm a relatively new investor. I have a quadplex it has a basement we roughed in to add a unit one day....well, we're thinking it's "one day". My question is, since we may not need to borrow anything to finance this,
will the mortgage payment be affected? I have no idea how that works.....
thanks so much
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@Frankie Lotrec if you have an existing loan on the property and you plan to legally convert from a 4 unit to 5 unit , you should check the loan documents because you’d essentially be converting it to a commercial property, since 5+ units is considered commercial and subject to different appraisal approaches and so it would rule out the property being considered for purchasers utilizing residential financing. This would be a significant modification to the underlying collateral and I’m sure it would be prohibited in your loan docs.