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Jamil Cole
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Miami, FL
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Refinancing a Hard Money Loan

Jamil Cole
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Miami, FL
Posted

Hi all. New member here to BP. 

So I found a deal on a Single Family Residence. Its selling for 120K after estimated closing costs, cash only, in a neighborhood that is valued at lowest price 250k. Needs work roughly 35k. 

I want to purchase not as just an investment but as my primary residence. All the math checks out. The issue I am having is the financing. 

I am a licensed realtor so I ran my own comps and I went with bottom prices. Avg price for the neighborhood is roughly 300k.

The financing is a bit of a mystery to me in wholesaling sense as I am mainly accustomed to conv, fha... etc. 

From what I've read here you can get a HML to buy the cash only property, and then refinance. Very exciting! BUT, after further research i find that most banks have a seasoning period of roughly 6 months... not so exciting. at 12-15% interest a month on the HML thats killer.

so for the TL;DR

I want to Buy and repair Cash only property roughly 155k. Then Refinance said property with a standard 30 year loan Asap after repairs. Is this possible? What pitfalls am I failing to see? best and worst case scenarios?

P.S. 

I also worked for years as a contractor and have many relations in the construction field to make the repairs happen quickly.

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