Sellers were listing in 2021 too, and they don't sell to go live in a box under a bridge, they trade up.

Quote from @Jacob Sherman: its mostly fix and flip loans and then cashout refinancing to permanent financing when rented Is a fix and flip loans the same as a bridge loan?

Sure, people are doing things, but the existing systems are like old bridges barely holding up.

I also used Josh Winters with Sherman Bridge for the funding.

A LOT of distrress is leading to mergers and firings, in just the last few weeks, this happened: (Big credit to @NewsLambert)Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)It goes on…..The mortgage industry is in a starkly deep recession.And RIP refinances, unless you are holding an even higher interest rate loan (like a construction/bridge loan or hard money, or perhaps you just fixed your credit.

In this example, I didn’t include any CapEx costs and the loan is 75% of the value.LTCWith a LTC structure, the lender is willing to lend funds as a percentage of the underlying asset’s purchase price plus renovation/repair costs (project cost).LTC financing is generally viewed as favorable for the borrower albeit, riskier, due to higher leverage, less debt service coverage, and renovation risk in the form of underbudgeting.LTC = Loan Amount / Project CostsMost often, lenders are willing to offer LTC terms structured as a bridge loans.

I connected with a developer based in Wilmington who is taking a property through entitlements and was looking for some bridge equity while the permitting was completed.

I didn’t have the time or inclination to do the STR until we had a broad base of LTRs to help bridge the financial gap that we encounter in the slow season.  

there is a lot of growth right across the bridge in the St.

Some operators are in trouble now because of how they bought years ago utilizing bridge debt, variable debt, etc.