WHY USE PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS?

 

WHY USE PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS?

1. Private lenders for real estate are offering competitive interest rates

Since a loan on an investment property is secured by a recorded Deed of Trust, private lenders can offer interest rates that are competitive with the open market.

Additionally, since private lenders for real estate are looking for investment properties, they are more likely to offer these rates on properties without a current cash flow than traditional banks, which are still restricting lending.

2. Private Money loans are faster and more flexible than other loans options

Since private lenders use the same investing principles as you do, they can make a quick decision, allowing you to avoid the long process of traditional bank underwriting.

3. Private lenders’ debt service coverage ratio is less strict

Since private lenders do not have the same underwriting process as traditional loan servicing arrangements, they have more flexibility to look at other factors influencing loan repayment.

4. Offer shorter terms

Working with private money lenders offer shorter terms to allow you to secure the property, avoid prepayment penalties, and look to traditional financing once the property is stabilized if necessary.

5. Real estate provides you better access to loans

While keeping traditional loan benefits. With private loans, you still have the same protections as with traditional bank loans, but are able to take advantage of a hard money loan process that moves more quickly and is inherently more flexible than conventional permanent financing.

6. It is less frequent for private loans to be packaged and resold

For real estate, they look specifically at you and your property to make an investment decision, and once they have found a good risk they are unlikely to sell their investment. This allows you a measure of confidence which you will still be doing business with the same partners for the life of a loan.

Even though cash buyers are a great resource for funding and buying real estate, Private Lenders are able to provide investment resources above and beyond what a typical cash buyers may be able to provide.




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PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS - REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS

 

PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS - REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a monkey-wrench into all facets of life, including paying rent or the mortgage for some which includes real estate investors.

The real estate investment outlook prior to the coronavirus pandemic was looking pretty good with low interest rates, and new home construction still doing well. Fix-and-Flips were on the rise and rentals, though increasing, still were becoming occupied.

However, since the coronavirus pandemic, real estate businesses have either accelerated the growth of their real estate businesses or have watched their real estate businesses decline.

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted all businesses, with smaller companies being hit harder, especially companies with fewer than a couple dozen employees. Why?

Because a small business with fewer than a few dozen employees typically lacks cash flow and capital. Those companies were the first to reduce hours for employees or lay off employees. Those businesses were also the first to stop hiring subcontractors.

With the U.S. officially in a recession, millions of people are suffering.

And acting with compassion over the next 6-12 months is key, whether it is towards homeowners or landlords in trouble or renters having issues making payments.

However, for individuals who are properly positioned as real estate investors, the next few years will spell out O.P.P.O.R.T.U.N.I.T.Y

Even if the extra unemployment benefits and eviction moratoriums currently sun-setting get extended, they will expire eventually.

Between landlords having trouble collecting rents and homeowners in forbearance accumulating a pile of debt, there will be more distressed sales coming online.

Rentals will become cheaper…

And fix and flips will have less “newbies” competing for them.But…because of our housing shortage and continuing low interest rates, people will still buy your fix and flips (if you’re still in business).

The question is, are you going to be positioned to take advantage of these opportunities? Unfortunately, when the housing market softens or does anything resembling a crash, traditional financing dries up.

Hard money lenders go out of business left and right because they have lent to the wrong investors and banks get scared. So they pull out of lending on anything that’s not deemed “very safe”… They cancel credit lines, stop lending on construction or rehabs…And generally just crawl into a corner in a fetal position…(try to picture a “bank” in a fetal position…pretty funny).

That’s the hilarious thing about “Times of Opportunity”:

Most people get scared exactly when they should be entering the market in full force! So how do you ensure that you can still close on deals when all the dummies run for the hills?

Answer: Private Money Lenders

If you have solid private lending relationships, you will be able to pull the trigger on any deal you want. No matter what the market is doing or how many hard money lenders are filing bankruptcy.

1. Private money is personal.
2. Private money is flexible.
3. Private money is crash resistant.

If you BRRRR deals (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat), private money is crucial for short-term funding.

If you do fix/flips, private money is a FAR cheaper alternative to hard money and less risky. And if YOU are a good, honorable steward of that money, it will keep flowing to you.


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Cash Buyer Real Estate Investing

Real estate investing has become a very popular entrepreneurial vehicle over the last 50 years or so. When you think about real estate investing, the first thing which probably comes to mind is your home. Of course, real estate investors have lots of other options when it comes to choosing investments.

Here's a look at some of the leading options for real estate cash buying investors.

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HOME FLIPPING HITS SIX-YEAR HIGH

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A total of 51,434 U.S. single family home and condo sales were completed flips in the second quarter of 2016, according to a new RealtyTrac Q2 2016 U.S. Home Flipping Report. These numbers are up 14 percent from the previous quarter and up 3 percent from a year ago to the highest number of home flips since Q2 2010-a six-year high.

For the report, a home flip is defined as a property that is sold in an arms-length sale for the second time within a 12-month period based on publicly recorded sales deed data collected by ATTOM Data Solutions in more than 950 counties accounting for more than 80 percent of the U.S. Population.

Homes flipped in Q2 2016 accounted for 5.5 percent of all single family and condo sales during the quarter, down from 6.7 percent of all sales in the first quarter but up from 5.4 percent of all sales in Q2 2015.

A total of 39,775 investors (including both individuals and institutions) completed at least one home flip in Q2 2016, the highest number of home flippers since Q2 2007-a nine-year high.

"Home flipping is becoming more accessible for smaller operators thanks to an increasingly competitive lending environment with more loan options for real estate investors, who are also benefitting from the historically low mortgage interest rates," says Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at ATTOM Data Solutions. "That favorable lending environment for flippers has helped to fuel the recent flipping frenzy we've seen over the past five quarters.

"We're starting to see home flipping hit some milestones not seen since prior to the financial crisis, which is somewhat concerning, but there are a couple of important differences in the home flipping of 2016 compared to 2006 when home flipping peaked during the last housing boom," Blomquist continues. "First, home flippers are realizing a much bigger gross ROI in 2016, averaging 49 percent in the first two quarters compared to an average gross ROI of just 27 percent in 2006. Second, while an increasing number of flippers are financing their purchases, more than two-thirds are still using cash to purchase compared to about one-third using cash to purchase back in 2006." 

Of the 51,434 homes flipped in the second quarter, 68.3 percent were purchased with cash by the flipper, down from 71.1 percent in the previous quarter and down from 69.6 percent in Q2 2015 to the lowest level since Q3 2008-a nearly eight-year low.

"The single family real estate sector is becoming more institutional, which means that more financing is available and more attractive," says Varun V. Pathria, CEO at Asset Avenue, a company that provides investor rehab, bridge and rental loans. "The entrepreneurs are also becoming savvier and as a result are looking to leverage their capital more. There continues to be a fringe group of people who enter and exit the sector based upon opportunity and those people are hard to predict but generally look to take maximum leverage."

Pathria noted that 79 percent of the rehab loans Asset Avenue has originated so far in 2016 have been purchase loans while the remaining 21 percent have been refinance-typically an investor who purchases with cash at a foreclosure auction or some other auction and subsequently finances the property.

Gross Flipping Profit Increases to New All-Time High
Homes flipped in Q2 2016 sold on average for $189,000, $62,000 more than the average purchase price of $127,000, according to ATTOM data. That $62,000 average gross profit was up from an average $59,250 gross flipping profit in the previous quarter and up from an average $57,900 gross flipping profit in Q2 2015 to the highest average gross flipping profit since Q1 2000, the earliest quarter tracked in the report.

The average loan amount for rehab loans originated by AssetAvenue so far in 2016 was $193,786, according to CEO Pathria.

The $62,000 average gross flipping profit represented an average 48.8 percent return on the original purchase price, down from a 49.3 percent average gross flipping ROI in the previous quarter but up from a 47.5 percent average gross flipping ROI in Q2 2015.

Average Days to Flip at 10-Year High
Homes flipped in Q2 2016 took an average of 185 days to flip, up from 180 days from the previous quarter and up from 182 days in Q2 2015 to the highest level since Q2 2006-a 10-year high.

Among 100 metropolitan statistical areas with at least 90 home flips in Q2 2016, those with the longest average time to flip were Ogden-Clearfield, Utah (229 days); Naples, Fla. (222 days); Punta Gorda, Fla. (212 days); Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Fla. (206 days); and Pensacola, Fla. (206 days).

Markets with Highest Home Flipping Rate
Among 100 metropolitan statistical areas with at least 90 homes flipped in Q2 2016, those with the highest flipping rate were Memphis (11.1 percent); Visalia-Porterville, Calif. (10.1 percent), Tampa (10.0 percent); York-Hanover, Penn. (9.7 percent); and Mobile, Ala. (9.6 percent).

Other metro areas in the top 10 for the highest flipping rate in Q2 2016 were Fresno, Calif. (9.5 percent); Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla. (9.5 percent); Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Fla. (9.4 percent); and Clarksville, Tenn. (9.3 percent).

Along with Memphis and Tampa, major markets with a population of at least 1 million where the Q2 2016 flipping rate was above 7 percent were Miami, Orlando, Baltimore, New Orleans, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Florida, Nashville, and Las Vegas.

Markets with Highest Gross Flipping Profits
Among the 100 metropolitan statistical areas with at least 90 home flips in Q2 2016, those with the highest gross ROI for homes flipped in Q2 2016 were Pittsburgh (133.3 percent), Allentown, Pa. (117.9 percent); New Orleans (111.5 percent); Cleveland (102.6 percent); and Philadelphia (98.9 percent).

There were nine metro areas where the average gross flipping profit in Q2 2016 was more than $100,000: San Jose, Calif. ($161,000); San Francisco ($146,000); Los Angeles ($125,000); New York ($124,160); San Diego ($111,250); Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, Calif. ($110,000); Baltimore ($105,000); Washington, D.C. ($104,500); and Seattle ($102,900).

Thirty-five percent of all homes flipped in Q2 2016 were sold by the flipper for between $100,000 and $200,000, the biggest share of any price range, but the biggest year-over-year increase in terms of price range was homes flipped in the $200,000 to $300,000 range-up 10 percent from a year ago.

Homes flipped for more than $5 million yielded the highest average gross ROI (73 percent), followed by the $50,000 to $100,000 price range (58 percent) and the $100,000 to $200,000 price range (58 percent).

Homes that were flipped in Q2 2016 were purchased by the flipper at a 25.7 percent discount below full "after repair" market value on average and sold by the flipper for a 9.2 percent premium above market value on average.

For more information, visit www.attomdata.com and www.RealtyTrac.com.

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HUD AND VA WORK TO FIND PERMANENT HOMES FOR HOMELESS VETERANS

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced a second round of funding to help provide permanent homes to an estimated 108 veterans experiencing homelessness in seven states.

The rental assistance announced today is provided through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program which combines rental assistance from HUD with case management and clinical services provided by VA (see attached list of HUD's voucher awards).

Recently, HUD, VA and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) announced the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010. The data revealed a 17 percent decrease in veteran homelessness between January 2015 and January 2016-quadruple the previous years annual decline-and a 47 percent decrease since 2010. Additionally, while answering the Obama administration'sMayor's Challenge to End Veteran's Homelessness, several mayors have declared their cities have officially ended it.

"There is momentum across the nation as community after community effectively ends veteran homelessness," says Secretary Juli?n Castro. "Today's funding will help more cities reach this important goal and ensure that we serve the brave men and women who have served and sacrificed for us. HUD and its local partners are determined to give every veteran the opportunity to secure a safe, stable place to call home."

"The dramatic reduction in Veteran homelessness in recent years would not have been possible without the pairing of housing choice vouchers with case management and supportive services under the HUD-VASH program to help the most vulnerable Veterans become and remain stably housed," says VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald. "The HUD-VASH awards announced today will support the ongoing and important work underway to ensure that homelessness among Veterans is rare and non-recurring."
In June, HUD awarded nearly $38 million to help more than 5,200 homeless veterans find homes. That funding ensured that communities could provide the critically needed housing assistance and case management services to those veterans and their families experiencing homelessness.

In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation's first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness.Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness serves as a roadmap for how the federal government will work with state and local communities to confront the root causes of homelessness, especially among former servicemen and women. To support communities as they progress towards the goal of ending veteran homelessness, USICH has identified strategies that increase collaboration and coordination among programs serving veterans experiencing homelessness.

Since 2008, more than 79,000 vouchers have been awarded and approximately 111,000 homeless veterans have been served through the HUD-VASH program. Rental assistance and supportive services provided through HUD-VASH are a critical resource for local communities in ending homelessness among our nations Veterans.

In the HUD-VASH program, VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) assess veterans experiencing homelessness before referring them to local housing agencies for these vouchers. Decisions are based on a variety of factors, most importantly the duration of homelessness and the need for longer term, more intensive support in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing. The HUD-VASH program includes both the rental assistance the voucher provides and the comprehensive case management that VAMC staff offers.

Veterans participating in the HUD-VASH program rent privately owned housing and generally contribute no more than 30 percent of their income toward rent. VA offers eligible homeless veterans clinical and supportive services through its medical centers across the U.S., Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

For more information, visit www.hud.gov.

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All-Cash Investment Home Prices Rise 5.4 Percent

Prices for investment properties purchased without leverage increased at a greater rate than traditional housing, according to June data released by HomeUnion. All-cash prices jumped 5.4 percent year-over-year to a median price of $160,000, while the owner-occupied median sales price grew 3.3 percent to $253,600.

"As global economic upheaval weighed on investors decisions, single-family rental (SFR) investment homes remained a safe haven for many investors," explains Steve Hovland, director of research for HomeUnion. "Prior to the recent Brexit vote and ongoing uncertainty in the global equity markets, investors parked capital in real estate for its stable returns, which has resulted in higher investment home prices."

"Owner-occupied home prices are hovering near all-time highs, which is keeping many potential buyers on the sidelines and slowing price growth," adds Hovland. Sales price increased at a healthy clip, indicating ongoing stability in the housing market, partially fueled by historically low interest rates. The overall median sales price - including both owner-occupied and investment housing - increased 3.9 percent year over year to $234,500 in June.

For more information, visit www.homeunion.com.

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