Real Estate Investor · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Member since 2015 · 8 posts · 0 votes
If you have 15% down or more, you can get your home of choice no matter what your credit score is. I will buy your home for you ad then owner finance it on a wrap. Your cash is your credit.
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I want to say that I'm all for any legit lending program/product that allows for subprime lending by private investors to home buyers. There is absolutely a need for more choices in consumer home lending. IMO we need something to replace the storefront lenders and credit companies from the past, like Beneficial and Housekey here in CA. Until the Bubble, those were legit options for home buyers with poor credit or stated income, but who had a downpayment. The interest rates were high, and sometimes the points and fees were egregious . However, the goal was always to refinance out of those loans. Those were straight purchases with promissory notes secured by deeds of trusts. The wrap thing and wrap with lease option thing is way too convoluted for my taste.
Gary Brown: You say the re-sale to the home buyer is an "owner finance on a wrap". Does that mean you are purchasing with lender/investor funds and re-selling at a mark-up (purchase price and interest rate)?
The lack of credit isn't interesting to me, but the no income verification is. Are you actually re-selling to the home buyer, or are you leasing with option to buy (1-3 years)? I don't see how you could get around the lending regs to consumers.....unless you aren't really lending.
For some reason the OP has written me privately with more details about his lending program. I hope he will consider answering my questions here. IMO there is a need for private lenders in consumer residential. However, it has to be lending....not lease option programs.
@Gary Brown Feel free to post more details here. Those of us that sell retail are happy to hear about a lending product that increases the potential buyer pool.
on the face of this post these loans if they are truly owner finance probably don't meet the qualified mortgage requirements. and I am sure that with your behind the scenes communication.. this owner finance is really rent to own or lease to own. or just plain don't care about the safe act.. :)
on the face of this post these loans if they are truly owner finance probably don't meet the qualified mortgage requirements. and I am sure that with your behind the scenes communication.. this owner finance is really rent to own or lease to own. or just plain don't care about the safe act.. :)
The OP's company appears to sort of pre-vet the buyer and then turns the loan app decision over to the private investor, the one who will be buying the house and making the "loan" on the resale. The investor is the one who actually qualifies the buyer/borrower, which does include income verification. He admits that some of the re-sales are lease options. I don't see a legit way to extend credit in the form of a home loan to a consumer buyer without a complete file. You know, old school ability to repay and credit worthiness. But maybe the OP knows the way. He's free to clarify here. :)
I want to say that I'm all for any legit lending program/product that allows for subprime lending by private investors to home buyers. There is absolutely a need for more choices in consumer home lending. IMO we need something to replace the storefront lenders and credit companies from the past, like Beneficial and Housekey here in CA. Until the Bubble, those were legit options for home buyers with poor credit or stated income, but who had a downpayment. The interest rates were high, and sometimes the points and fees were egregious . However, the goal was always to refinance out of those loans. Those were straight purchases with promissory notes secured by deeds of trusts. The wrap thing and wrap with lease option thing is way too convoluted for my taste.
I have seen the sub to wrap to sub prime borrower many times and many times it ends with a huge mess.. especially for the original seller.. And especially with the new foreclosure laws and homeowners lawyer up and trying to find any way that they can get back at the extender of credit that put them in the home in the first place.