Can someone tell me of a very good multifamily loan company private or institutional??

We can finance foreign nationals, but we only deal with residential assets.

Hi Brian, I recently passed the test and went through  The Michigan Institute of Real Estate.  

However, I will say that SoCal is one of the most profitable real estate markets in the nation for long term total return (cash flow + appreciation) ... you'd be hard pressed to find a more profitable one ... perhaps San Francisco or Honolulu?

I've decided to take the plunge and invest in real estate, and want to do so by house hacking with a duplex.I want to purchase sometime between summer and winter of this year (I hear that the holidays are the best time to purchase), and plan going to get a few mortgage preapproval / loan amount quotes.I've got a few questions that I would love to have some light shed on:1) What are some things that I can ask / look for in order to determine some intangible things about the lending institution such as:a) Willingness to work with me in order to get my loan approved (i.e. if I'm not going to get accepted for a loan, I'd like the person to at least think if there is a way for me to get accepted)b) Closing speed (i.e. how fast can the lending institution close a deal?)

It sounds like your note holder is not an institutional note investor (read unemotional) but a personal note holder, so there may be more emotions there. 

Hello BP nation!!!

Ideally transfer the money into a different financial institution from that account.

As for seller financed notes the good news is Dodd Frank is being deregulated and as for institutional notes it's a supply & demand equation with a big factor being jobs & economic growth, but there's always people defaulting due to job loss, divorce and medical.

I used to work with a good mortgage broker who I would just bring my deals to and they would hook me up with a lender, but that company went out of business, and I don't really care for the new 'institutional hard money.'