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24 December 2024 | 7 replies
In our case we tripled our deal flow when we started a program of direct email to mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, and real estate investors who could bring us either mortgage notes for sale or new loan opportunities for loans not qualifying for commercial financing.
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26 December 2024 | 3 replies
With a teaching and leadership backgroud, I have an interest to help others write their programs or review their presentations to address every learning style.
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25 December 2024 | 2 replies
I would benefit from this program because it would decrease my 1:30-2 hours commute down to under 30 minutes.
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6 January 2025 | 14 replies
See the chart from Fair Isaac Company (FICO) below: FICO Score Pct of Population Default Probability 800 or more 13.00% 1.00% 750-799 27.00% 1.00% 700-749 18.00% 4.40% 650-699 15.00% 8.90% 600-649 12.00% 15.80% 550-599 8.00% 22.50% 500-549 5.00% 28.40% Less than 499 2.00% 41.00% Source: Fair Isaac CompanyAccording to this chart, investors should use corresponding vacancy+tenant-nonperformance factors of approximately 5% for Class A rentals, 10% for Class B and 20% for Class C.To address Class C payment challenges, many industry "experts" are now selling programs to newbie investors about how Section 8 tenants are the cure.
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5 January 2025 | 17 replies
Confirm what the no point option would look like in terms of rate/payment as you would want to refinance out of this program eventually and into a conforming product. 2.
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31 December 2024 | 13 replies
If your project qualifies for EPP (Express Permit Program), then you don’t have to secure permits in the traditional way.
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2 January 2025 | 18 replies
They used that period of unemployment to skip paying student loans and then try to get some kind of program/hardship deferral or something aka "gaming the system".
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11 January 2025 | 420 replies
Plus there is my new program, "improved super calculating amazing mortgage system" or iSCAMS (tm) because everyone knows that putting an "i" in front makes it 37.8% better, I am charging $100 for that program.
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30 January 2025 | 45 replies
Anyway back to regularly scheduled program !!
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27 December 2024 | 10 replies
This is an option to consider and many larger banks/credit unions and nationwide mortgage lenders have released new loan programs allowing 2nds, HELOANS and HELOCS.