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Loan Characteristics and Their Effect on Your Prospective Investment Project (Part 2)

by Kyle Koller | November 9, 2009

In my last article, I discussed how lender recourse, prepayment penalties, a loan’s assumability, and fees and costs affect a real estate investor’s strategy. In this continuation, I will explore several other loan characteristics such that you can more successfully plan your next investment project.
Fixed Periods
Many commercial loan products offer fixed interest rates for some [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

New Federal Restriction on Prepayment Penalties Won’t Apply to FHA Interest Charge

by Christina Inman | November 7, 2009

On October 1, new federal lending rules took effect under HOEPA–the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act.  One that will benefit consumers most is a restriction on prepayment penalties for higher-priced loans (those with an interest rate 1.5% above prime).  No longer will borrowers need to worry about an excessive penalty for paying off their [...]

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Commentary

U.S. Commercial Real Estate At Death’s Door; Next Shoe Ready To Drop

by Charles Feldman | November 3, 2009
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If there really is an economic recovery underway–no matter how weak–one sure thing that would kill it is a devastating collapse of the commercial real estate market.
And, I’m afraid, that is exactly what appears to be shaping up in the not very distant future.
A survey by the Real Estate Roundtable (which sounds like something out [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Is Fannie Mae Killing the Golden Goose?

by Florence Foote | November 3, 2009
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One study of mortgages during the Great Depression found that almost half of urban, owner-occupied homes (on which there was a mortgage) were in default by 1934. The government’s answer was to sponsor the creation of Fannie Mae in 1938 (or as it is really called, the Federal National Mortgage Association), which was, and [...]

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Real Estate

Understanding Private Lending: Interview with a Private Lender Part 2

by Justin Pierce | August 2, 2009

Last week I spoke with a private lender who loaned her own money and brokered here own loans. She operates in Northern Virginia and takes great interest in the borrower. Her operation is small and she does not have any time or desire to foreclose on a property thus she tries to ensure she will not have to by dealing with experience investors who have assets and usually money to put into the deal.

To get a little variation on this topic I spoke with a different flavor of private lender. David Williams is a hard money lender located in Utah. The differences between these lenders are more than just their geographical location.

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Commentary

Questions & Risk for Lenders In The New Credit Environment

by Tom Koziol | February 20, 2009

Risk management rules are being revised as a result of the credit crisis we are currently experiencing. One of the categories under review is Customer Behavior. The proponents of the “strategic adjustments” have come up with supposedly new questions in this category.
This makes sense if the questions were truly new questions engineered for the [...]

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Major Banks Announce Halt in Foreclosures for One Month; Await Obama Plan Details

by Joshua Dorkin | February 14, 2009

As the spending stimulus package passed the House and Senate on Friday, lenders large and small took action to stem the tide of foreclosures (1 every 13 seconds) until more details were revealed about President Obama’s $50 billion plan (that’s the portion of the stimulus devoted to foreclosures, according to the AP).
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, [...]

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Commentary

Mortgage Brokers Get The Final Dagger In The Heart

by Rob K. Blake | February 14, 2009

Even if you’ve been living in a cave for the last few years, if asked, “Who caused the mortgage meltdown?”…the mortgage debacle that triggered a bank implosion and a real estate market slide that would make a Japanese landlord cringe…
You’d answer…”Those greedy mortgage brokers are the cause of this mess.”
Why would you pull [...]

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Commentary

Will The Feds Nationalize Bank of America?

by Rob K. Blake | February 7, 2009

There is a plethora of speculations buzzing around Wall Street with the central theme being Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) our nation’s largest bank…and biggest “cleaner upper” of the financial crises buying both Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Home Loans before they collapse…is going to get “taken over” by the government.
Oh my God!
The sky [...]

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Economy

Geither to Announce Bailout Plan Monday – Will Credit Start Flowing Again Soon?

by Joshua Dorkin | February 6, 2009

According to the AP, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is set to give a major speech on Monday to outline the $700 billion rescue plan.
As a part of any bailout package we’ll see, the government will certainly make some major moves in the real estate and banking space.
Meanwhile, real estate lobbyists were pressing the government to [...]

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Commentary

Fed Research Sheds Light On Reluctance Of Subprime Lenders To Modify Loans

by Rob K. Blake | January 17, 2009

I came across a research paper published by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank where the researchers looked into among other things a mathematical formula that demonstrates subprime lender have little financial motivation to modify mortgages facing default.
This research I thought was interesting because I am caught between wanting the government or the lenders to “help” [...]

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Commentary

Madoff Scandal Fallout: Do Investors Care?

by Matt Pitcher | January 10, 2009

This was a question posed by an editorial in a prominent financial news media publication recently. I have asked myself the same question.
For those of us whose primary objective is raising capital and attracting authentic, unique, and compelling opportunities for that capital, the Madoff scandal could not have come at a worst time.
Or could it?
The [...]

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The Latest Dynamic Duo Disaster In The Making

by Rob K. Blake | December 6, 2008

I call the Bernanke – Paulson twosome the Dynamic Duo because what they devise to solve our financial crisis is no more ridiculous than the far-fetched ways Batman and Robin used to escape sure death in the campy TV show. Unlike the TV show, I’ve stopped rooting for this financially bungling Dynamic Duo to [...]

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Steer Clear of Loan Modification or Foreclosure Rescue Practices

by Rob K. Blake | November 22, 2008

I got an email a few days ago from the Colorado Department of Real Estate, the mortgage broker regulator, outling their new interpretation of “Loan Modification” as “mortgage brokerage”. I guess they are getting a lot of complaints from foreclosure victims who lost money to grifters posing as “Foreclosure Rescue Specialists” that promise a [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Private Investing in Real Estate Trust Deeds, in Simple English.

by Rosie Nieto | November 11, 2008

Well, that question is what I have spent the last week and half – UNLEARNING.  You see, I am a real estate investor and I, like many other investors, am always working on raising private money to use to close my deals fast (or, in this hellacious market – to close them at all!)  That [...]

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