Loans, Refinancing, and Credit Checks

Loans, Refinancing, and Credit Checks

Joseph BelgradPro Member
Developer · Member since 2020 · 18 posts · 7 votes

For those of us looking to build real estate portfolios quickly, I imagine we would find ourselves applying for a lot of loans over the course of just a few years and would then have our credit report pulled many times. For example, if I want to purchase 4 properties a year using loans such as conventional, FHA, 203k, hard money, etc. then I would have my credit pulled 4 times. In two years that would be pulled 8 times. If I want to use one loan at the onset and then refinance after 6 months or a year then that's two loans per property or 16 loans in two years. Now having my credit pulled once or twice every couple years doesn't really impact my credit, but once I start having many credit checks over the course of just a couple years, my score (and thus my financing (with traditional lenders) eligibility) would take a hit. So my questions are:

1. If I get a loan or multiple loans and then refinance with the same lender, would they still pull my credit for the additional loans and the refinances or would my history with them be sufficient?

2. What are people's suggestions for working around this issue? Of course I could go to private money lenders and partnerships, but I'm curious if anyone has any work-arounds for this issue while still using traditional lenders.

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  • Lender · Santa Rosa, CA · Member since 2017 · 283 posts · 255 votes
    6y

    If you pay all your bills on time and keep your utilized revolving credit low, this will not be your problem. DTI is probably 1000X more likely to limit your ability to get a loan than credit pulls associated with all the loans you have gotten and are paying. Even when that happens (barring being in the middle of a global pandemic that completely shuts down the non-QM market) you will turn to investor and portfolio loans where the rental property and its economics are the primary factor in getting the loan. You could also use one of those loans as a blanket loan to put 10 or 20 properties on one loan and start the whole thing over again.

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