Here are some tips on how to succeed as a commercial loans broker: Tip #1: Never waste one nanosecond on international loans. International loans never close. The problem is one of taxation. No country in the world wants a bunch of foreign banks to come into their country and take all of the good loans,…
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This commercial financing article will describe the importance of avoiding “problem commercial lenders”. The article will NOT name specific lenders to avoid, but key examples will be provided to illustrate why prudent commercial borrowers should be prepared to avoid a wide variety of existing commercial lenders in their search for viable commercial financing. I have…
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In our home we try to get the children to help out. One day our youngest son came into the living room and asked, “Does anyone want a cup of coffee?” “Yes, please!” we said. He replied, “What kind of coffee do you want? Capitated or decapitated?” This old blog article about the commercial loan…
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Every year hundreds of commercial property owners get conned out of millions of dollars by advance fee scammers. An advance fee scammer is a criminal pretending to be a commercial mortgage lender. He will issue a very fancy-looking conditional commitment letter, which will call for some huge “good faith deposit” or “third-party report fee”. Once…
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In negotiating an income property loan, the size of loan the borrower can obtain is usually more of a sticking point than the rate or the loan fee. Since income property loan sizes are generally limited by the debt service coverage ratio (i.e., cash flow), rather than the loan-to-value ratio, the operating expense figure that…
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Quick funny: Tomorrow is the National Home-School Tornado Drill. Lock your kids in the basement until you give the all clear. You’re welcome. Haha! For the past two weeks, we have been discussing the fact that just about every commercial bank in the country is out of the commercial mortgage market. The CMBS market remains…
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A great many residential lenders make revolving lines of credit (home equity loans) on owner-occupied homes; so it it natural for lots of commercial loan brokers to ask if their investor clients can get a a line of credit, secured by an apartment building or an office building. As a general rule, the answer is,…
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By George Blackburne A borrower can expect to pay between $2,000 and $4,500 for an appraisal, if he needs a commercial loan. Multifamily appraisals are slightly less. The reason why commercial real estate appraisals are so expensive is because each commercial property is unique. In addition, the appraiser has to perform an extensive rental comparable’s…
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A company named JCR Capital sent me an email flyer several months ago advertising their equity capital for value-add real estate investments. Value-add commercial real estate investments typically target properties that have in-place cash flow, but they seek to increase that cash flow over time by making improvements to, or repositioning, the property. In other…
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Last week I wrote a blog about how historically aggressive private money commercial bridge lenders are getting. This month George Smith Partners, the big commercial mortgage banking company (the original founder started George Smith & Company decades before I founded Blackburne & Sons forty years ago) released a newsletter, FinFacts, containing the following tombstone: “George…
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