Hi Denise, one area to check in on (if you are doing a purchase/renovation loan) is the draw process for your rehab funds.

It isnt something Id give any consideration to due to the prevalence of them. 

Here's where you need an attorney to verify because the details of how you run it matter.Keep in mind there are financing considerations. 

The draw back to these loans is that they are more paperwork heavy than the other "portfolio" types of loans....but if you have ever received a loan on your primary home, it's likely that you will go through the same type of paperwork here with conventional lending.

Part of it is the limit of 10 conventional loans, but also debt to income ratio and personal credit considerations.   

(*) What metrics / facts did you take into consideration when evaluating providers?

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You need to pay far below market value for the deal, bring an efficient rehab process to the project, and have your total all-in cost to be considerably less than what it's value is. 

Hi there, When my wife and I purchased our first home, we bought a condo. It is the first floor unit of 2 family home that was bought by a developer remodeled both units and converted the multi-family into 2 condos. A...

Draws can be made for the first 20 years, and then it locks into an amortizing 30 year product.