So, yes, lenders are terrified, petrified, horrified at the thought of loaning money to anyone right now.In fact, they are busy raising their in-house lending standards (called "overlays") to ridiculous levels just to try to mitigate the risk of defaults.

@Kesete Thompkins you can also try Standard Bank, Farmers, Amerifirst, Brentwood, FNB.

@Walter May I just went through this and it worked out much better to refinance our current home and then do a HELOC for three reasons. 1) Interest rates for cash out refi's are higher than standard refi. 2) The interest rate for a HELOC is based off of the prime rate which is currently historically low.

I'm by no means a banker, economist, or a conspiracy theorist, but my feeling is this is part of a plan to get us back toward the gold standard and away from the petrol dollar or at least away from the other foreign money.

By most people standards, I’ve been kicking butt and taking names but after you do enough deals, the well starts to run dry. $13,000 in this deal, $5,000 in that one, $20,000 in the next one.

Replacing the roof right away is standard practice for some I know -- it starts you off with one less thing to worry about later.

Standard is 75% LTV for investor refinance, but I have head 80% LTV thrown around and would like to know if anyone has actually worked with any bank with theses terms. 

Here is the summary; I am a commercial real estate agent in San Francisco where we are currently in contract ( CAR standard commercial property for sale purchase contract) and I represent both the buyer and seller for a commercial property in San Francisco.

Last year I purchased my first single family rental property with a standard 20% down payment.

I basically just save money from my job and the cash flow until I have enough to purchase another with a cushion and rinse and repeat.Question: After I get to 10 properties/loans, and I can no longer qualify for the standard Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac -- how can I finance additional single family homes?