The minimum portfolio loan Colony offers is $500K, which also enables us to move over the properties in tranches.  

He has an childish attitude and his parents are enabling him to continue to be irresponsible. 

If proposed loan terms will enable you to hit "your" targeted ROI/minimal hurdle rate...Go for it..... 

Are you looking for passive income to eventually enable you to quit your job?

And we are so happy to have rescued a house and to enable a young couple to have a beautiful home.

Usually you need an enabling statute to file a lien. 

And the other thing is that if they cash flow at 5%, then when that balloon comes due in 5 years, even if it goes up to 6, their lowered principal and higher rents should enable them to still profit at the higher rate.And in another 5 years if it were to go up to 7, then they'd have another 5 years of rent increases and principal paydown so they should still be able to cash flow there as well.

I've been interested in real estate since I was 7 with the discovery of HGTV😂 (It's just something about houses that really cranks my gears (; ) Anyways, my father is a musician.

My career in accounting / finance has enabled me to develop strong analytic skills.  

A bridge loan, a short term lending vehicle (usually 12 to 24 months) designed to enable investors to close gaps.