Direct lenders can be any lender that provides the loan production functions, funds the loan and sells or transfers the note.A lender may have investors and generate the loan and then assign the note to an investment pool or investor, thus providing a direct lender function.

I was fortunate enough to find BP as I was getting started in real estate investing and the guidance and assistance from other members was critical to my success (and avoidance of huge mistakes).

In this situation, your yield and return is a function of the interest and the future potential of gain on sale/settlement.

(SDIRA), but a "regular cash equity partner" could function the same way.

Not sure how you rely on repeat business, but such was critical in this market.

(Sorry, neither of their names will come up in the mention function.)

The lesson we can learn from him is that historical evidence might be useful for a while, but in a critical time, analysis should be based more on external information.As a stock trader, those years were good.

It is critical for a hard money lender to be pretty well capitalized because they aren't going to have much of a reputation if they aren't always capable of making loans.

Is not related to the function of the exempt purpose of the entity.I prepare quite a few 990's for SDIRAs and I can tell you that flipping in an IRA is not the best way to do it unless you are already in a high tax bracket.

Also, I suggest you use the search function before asking questions; the ones you are asking here have numerous already existing threads that you should read.