Real Estate Articles tagged with: private investors
Self Storage »
When it comes to owning property, there are a number of avenues that one can take. But, despite all of the available options, one seems to stand above the rest – self storage facilities. Because of their low maintenance costs (no carpets, no toilets, low capitol rates, etc.) and ability to bring in high returns, self storage facilities have continued to grow into the best form of real estate investments over the last decade, according to studies by Bloomberg. Self storage companies, located all over the country and the world, …
Acquisitions »
Buyers Utopia is a network of over 2500 institutional and private commercial real estate buyers & investors. Our networks capacity to acquire income producing commercial property is very strong. Currently our investor network varies in the types of properties sought, preferred investment size, geographical preference, minimum square footage and minimum number of units. Any income producing asset can be sold to one of our institutions our private investors quickly, so long as it is meets the investors minimum return on investment criteria and we are able to submit a complete due diligence package.
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Funding »
It’s easy to confuse private money with hard money for real estate investment purposes, but the truth is they are quite different. There are points however where they are similar though, for instance, it is possible for hard money to originate from a private individual same as private money. This article deals with the differences of the two, though. Let’s start.
Hard money requires points paid immediately on securing the loan. It has high interest rates, is low loan to value, and it draws for any repairs. Hard money is not …
Funding »
The real estate investment loan market has under gone a fundamental reset after the economic crash. Out are the loose underwriting guidelines that helped perpetuate the real estate bubble and in are very conservative conventional underwriting criteria for funding of investment real estate. Gone are the low money down and highly speculative option arm and stated programs investors where using in years past and are fully documented, 75-80% LTV programs that require solid FICO scores. The reality is that for loans for investors ( non-owner occupied properties) is that available …