Can someone “gift” you money for a down payment utilizing HML?
3 Replies
Kyle Brodwater
Rental Property Investor from Westerly, RI
posted about 1 year ago
Quick question, can I borrow $20k from my mother and have her gift it to me? I would then use that $20k as a down payment for a property utilizing a HML. Basically is there a seasoning period for that money with a HML, to be in your account like a bank or no? Thank you!
Dennis Folk
Real Estate Broker from Puyallup, WA.
replied about 1 year ago
@Kyle Brodwater HML are private banks, so each one could likely make that call independently and my guess is that they would likely be just fine with gift funds not being seasoned, if the LTV, etc on the deal otherwise made sense and met their requirements.
Kyle Brodwater
Rental Property Investor from Westerly, RI
replied about 1 year ago
@Dennis Folk That's what I figured, thank you! I'd usually just call HML's but it's Sunday and I had that question rolling in my head.
Andrew Postell
Lender from Fort Worth, TX
replied about 1 year ago
@Kyle Brodwater as mentioned above it would be up to the Hard Money Lender but certainly would be possible in theory.