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Hi everyoneCan someone explain to me from start to finish how does a HML work? I always get scared when someone suggests HMLs... I literally think of loan sharks or getting your house or assets taken away from you whe...
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Hi,My father lives in NJ. I would like to loan him money, paid monthly to help with his expenses. Unfortunately, he is not always financially responsible. I would like to loan it against his property which he owns fre...
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From another client report (this one from 2012) - sans footnotes and references.All Americans are experiencing the expansionist wave of government control over all of our activities, and businesses are being increasin...
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Hi everyone,
I’m new here and recently connected with someone looking to retire and sell his portfolio of 19 properties (a mix of multi-family and single-family homes). I’m very interested, but I still need to analyz...
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Hi Everyone, So I am meeting with a commercial lender on Friday to talk about a portfolio loan on my 11 properties. I was going to create a packet for each property but didn't know what information a commercial lender...
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I’m trying to understand how to go about purchasing properties that need rehabs with hard money then converting to a dscr loan after the rehab and new appraisal have been completed. If anyone could layout some basic s...
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Would writing a business plan with detailed financials help in getting a commercial loan? We are just staring out and much of the smart advice is to start out with a smaller property before moving on to multi-family....
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Happy New Years!
I am a business owner and have faced some problems with obtaining some RE loans due to too many write offs and "not enough verifiable income" i have almost all my debt paid off aside from my propert...
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My wife has been our business accountant up till now, but she's pregnant and we have a 1 year old. Life is rightly taking up more and more of her accounting time. A lot of accounting can wait to be done in big push sp...
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Do lenders actually lend on the income of the asset or it is weighted on the net worth of the borrower, or both?