Taking out hard money loans

[Dovi Schwartz]

What are the benefits of taking out a hard money loan

[David Ginn]

@Dovi Schwartz

The benefits of taking out a hard money loan is primarily that you don’t have to do all the paperwork. Hard money loans are primarily based on relationships and on the asset rather than vetting a person and seeing if their credit is good or looking at his financials. So most hard money loans are based primarily on the asset itself. And then they’ll look at the experience of the borrower, and then the borrower’s credit rating, but they are not really going to go much deeper than that.

If it's an institutional lender, they ask for all of these things (the borrower, the asset, and the credit rating of the borrower), but if it's your normal IRA/401(k) lender, they are less likely to go into that amount of detail but are going to focus mostly on the person and the asset as a general rule--the relationship.