Lenders do not look at your personal income or DTI to qualify.

We gathered up some private equity and we launched the company during the last crash.

Quote from @Brandon Lee: When you evaluate lenders or funding partners, what’s most important to you — speed, flexibility, or experience with your type of deal?

Also, talk to lenders now because not all will refi in 90 days.

Asking for loan documents and closing or escrow statements in advance and actually reading them should also be part of your process.No lender and no process is perfect, James, but bitching and moaning aren’t helpful.Why don’t you define the difference and share your process for vetting hard or private lenders, as you call them?

I don't believe she's active on BP, but she's a private lender that specializes in deals in Missouri and she knows Columbia and mid-Missouri very well!

They could walk away right now and let the lender(s) sell it to another owner for the balance of the loan.  

I am a MA hard money lender, and we won't close on a foreclosure auction property unless we have access to see the interior. 

Before buying rental properties, I did try private lending and it was more passive for me without needing to get into the details of the investment and settle for a monthly return or net profit at the end of the project, which is the route I may return to.

You as a lender should know this..