When Insurance Kills the Deal Before the Loan Even Gets There
Everyone talks about rates. Almost nobody's talking about insurance, though it's quietly becoming the bigger problem.
A new nationwide survey of fix-and-flip buyers and rental property owners found that 71% now factor insurance cost or availability into whether they'll buy a property at all. Half say insurance issues have already caused them to miss a buying or selling opportunity.
California knows this story well. Wildfire risk has pushed carriers out of entire markets, and buyers in fire-adjacent areas are seeing premiums run two to three times what they paid a year ago! For someone running tight numbers on a flip or a rental, that's not a rounding error, it's the difference between a deal that pencils and one that doesn't.
Insurance is easy to treat as an afterthought, until it's the thing that quietly derails a deal that looked solid on paper. It's worth asking about early rather than finding out late.
That's really the value of a direct lender: fewer parties between you and the people funding the loan, which means fewer places for an important question to get lost along the way.
This is how we operate and is just another reason we're the Private Money Lender everyone's starting to talk about.
Source: RCN Capital/CJ Patrick Company Investor Sentiment Index, Summer 2026; ManageCasa California Housing Market Outlook
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