Phone: 240-436-2340
Maryland Hard Money Lenders. Private Loans in Maryland, Virginia & Washington, DC
If you are new to private lending, you might have many questions about hard money loan process. How do you get a pre-approval? What’s a POF? Are you guaranteed to get a loan if you’re pre-approved? Can you get pre-approved if you don’t have a property in mind? Once you go through a hard money loan process, you would understand how easy it is. However, for those who’ve never worked with a private lender before, here is a step-by-step description of our hard money loan process.
The DMV market is full of real estate investment opportunities that state: Investor Special. Cash Only. This “cash-only” requirement is the driving force behind the most common question about our industry: Is a hard money loan considered cash or not?
I understand the source of confusion. Cash implies a certain amount of money that you already have in your possession. In contrast, a loan means that you’re using borrowed funds because you either don’t have cash or choose not to use it. Hard money loan is not cash, but there are instances when it’s considered its equivalent. One of those instances is making an offer on a distressed property.
Hard money loans offer unparalleled leverage, speed, and flexibility—something that conventional lenders cannot even come close to. To compensate for the risk, private lenders charge more for their money, making their loans more expensive than those offered by traditional lenders. If you are one of the traditional lenders, the only advantage of your product is the price you charge.
After analyzing a variety of Google search engine results pages, we found that one of the most popular search phrases involving hard money is “hard money vs. soft money.” I live and breathe hard money, but—I am the first to admit—it creates certain myopia when it comes to an understanding what people outside of our industry know about it. Ours is a highly specialized product, but many people, even those who are financially sophisticated, have little understanding of it. A couple of days ago I ran into my former boss, with whom I worked 20 years ago. He is a great, successful man who ran a multi-million insurance and financial services company for MetLife and retired as a multi-millionaire. We started catching up and discovered he has no idea what hard money is—and he is a former financial guru!
Archimedes famously proclaimed: “Give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world.” In finance, like in physics, leverage allows accomplishing incredible acts with only a fraction of the effort. We talked about our hard money loans and the leverage they provide in our previous blogs, but let me re-cap.
Hard money loans allow a real estate investor to effectively compete with cash offers while investing only a fraction of cash needed to purchase and rehab a property. Alternatively, hard money loans allow well-heeled investors who do have enough cash to buy a property outright to multiply their profits by investing in several properties at once. In their case, financial leverage that hard money loans provide allows them to operate on a large scale and make more money.
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New Funding Resources, LLC
806 West Diamond Ave.
Suite 340
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
Phone: 240-436-2340
All loans subject to our review of underwriting criteria and conditions. We reserve the right to approve or deny any loan application based on our sole discretion.
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