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Mitch Smith How Tiered Returns Has Helped Us Structure Our Private Lending Deals
17 January 2025 | 3 replies
Encourages Larger Investments: By offering higher returns at higher tiers, you incentivize investors to allocate more capital to your projects.Builds Long-Term Relationships: Investors appreciate being rewarded for deeper commitments, which helps foster trust and repeat business.Scales with Your Business: This structure can align with the complexity or scale of your projects, ensuring that you have the resources you need while staying competitive in the market.Key Benefits to InvestorsSecurity: Deals can be secured by tangible assets, such as a deed of trust or promissory note, providing peace of mind.Flexibility: Payments can be structured to suit the investor’s needs—monthly, quarterly, or upon project completion.Attractive Returns: With returns starting at 15%, investors often see better yields than traditional investment vehicles, like stocks or mutual funds.How We’ve Implemented ThisThis structure works particularly well for our large renovation or development projects where multiple investors may be involved.
Ryan Bono Multi-Family in Little Rock Arkansas or Columbia SC
22 January 2025 | 10 replies
Do you have a price range (or down payment target) and are you ok with some rehab or do you prefer turn key?
Jeffrey Bourque Found a Deal but Not Sure
27 January 2025 | 7 replies
My guess solely looking at your numbers is that it's an older/distressed property which means you have to account for more costs in capex. 2nd thought being it's not in the best of neighborhood then you'd have to take into consideration lower quality tenants/ neighbors and maybe increase expected vacancy and late payments.
James Carlson Are STRs as we know them dead in Colorado (and other places)?
27 January 2025 | 56 replies
Several have mentioned utilizing low down payment second home loans for qualifying.
Keetaek Hong Where (cities) & what (asset types) in Dallas/Houston to invest for maximum apprec!
7 February 2025 | 12 replies
You end up having to sell to someone with higher down payments, better credit, better operating plan, and 100% investors who never want to pay top prices.  
Jack B. What are the risks of DSCR loans?
19 January 2025 | 9 replies
Risks: rates go down and you have to pay a prepay of 2 or 3 %; you have to sell and pay the prepay; rents decline & you can't make the payment like any other type of loan; cost upfront a little more than conventional; need to find experienced broker licensed in the state where subject property sits; servicers are bulldogs. 
Geoff McFarlane Sell our home or rent it out?
20 January 2025 | 7 replies
Treat this property as a business and factor in all the associated expenses, including mortgage payments (if you pull a loan), maintenance, and potential vacancy periods.To simplify management and make this less of a hands-on job, I’d strongly recommend working with a property management company.
Stephen Fleming Newbie Plan. Thoughts?
14 January 2025 | 9 replies
Use the 20K as a down payment on the next house hack and don't touch your current properties equity.
Isaiah Cortez Exploring the Ft. Lauderdale STR Market
21 January 2025 | 4 replies
All told, cash flow will be a function of your down payment and your management of the property.FL tourism continues to flourish. 
Arina Alexiuc Small multi 2-4 units vs 5-20 units?
19 January 2025 | 2 replies
., the appraisal for 5+ is at least $2k-$3k) and the financing structure by lenders because Fannie/Freddie don't generally buy loans for commercial properties.So, for you personally, the biggest driver for the type of your next property is probably going to be the amount of a down payment/equity you can put in the property.