Why You Should Finance Investment Property Via Debt
30 Jan2009
Are you looking to get your feet wet in real estate but don’t know how to begin. If you ask the more creative and experienced of investors, they would suggest that you look for financial institutions that finance investment property. That is, the golden rule of real estate is to use other people’s money to leverage your investments.
Seasoned investors advise against investing scads of money on a single real estate asset, even if you have the funds to do it – simply because it is too risky a proposition. Moreover, you forego the benefits of leveraging.
Nowadays, several reputable lenders offer finance for up to 95% of the purchase price of the property. The most alluring feature of such schemes is that they cut back on your out of pocket costs when acquiring an investment property. Moreover, the finance is typically available in the shape of a single loan, which can be used to invest further in other properties.
The benefits of financing can be better understood with an example. Let’s assume that you purchase an investment property, without financing, for $150,000. If your expected yield from the property is 10%, then you would get returns of $15,000, which is a 10% return on your investment. On the other hand, if you get your property financed up to 95%, then you would effectively make the same profit on a mere investment of $7,500, which amounts to be an overwhelming 200% return on your investment.
Lenders that finance investment property up to 95% normally offer loans with a 15-year or 30-year term. These loans may either be fixed-rate or adjustable-rate. Lenders verify your credentials, such as your income source, savings and credit score, prior to offering finance. Though low credit scores are permissible by many financial institutions, a healthy credit score does help acquire finance at low interest rates.
While choosing a financial institution that will finance investment property, ensure that you are thorough with the terms of the finance agreement. Although financing your investment property seems like a profitable option, you may not be able to acquire finance for just about any property you desire. Reputable lenders offer finance for no more than 5 investment properties. And this too can be rather tough to accomplish. You need to be eloquent enough to persuade the lender into offering finance.
All in all, it is prudent to seek lenders that finance investment property. Financing empowers you to leap ahead in your real estate career at a rapid pace. It helps you augment your investment portfolio, which leads to significant profits in the long run.
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7 Responses to Why You Should Finance Investment Property Via Debt
guidobutcher
January 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
The trust must contain the property before any financing can be done by it. You need to look at your living trust as completely different entity than yourself.
ujenfo
January 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
You could try to get the owners of the property to sell to you on a lease option for say 2 years, and lets say that you pay 500 a month, with 500 down, then you would have control of the property and you could do your fix-ups or rent it out and collect the rent.( Be sure and include that in the offer that you can rent the property out) You should be able to get a 2nd mortgage to do your rehabs, (most banks would want to be in 1st position and the owner would hold the 2nd mortgage) If you have control of the property it makes thing alot easier, check out a mortgage broker they can usually find something. I currently use GMAC mortgage and they found a place that we only need 5% down on investment property. Good luck!
Jot
January 30th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Financing is a problem? That sounds like a slam dunk.
1. Go owner occupied, 80/20, get a credit from the beneficiary/seller or what have you for costs…done deal.
Send me a message and I can set that up in a snap
laney.lowe
January 31st, 2009 at 4:37 am
Brent
February 1st, 2009 at 5:13 am
TRUE!
Suresh P
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
get a team of people who have money to finance this deal and split the profits. Hard money lenders will lend up to 65% of the appraised value. However, I worked with some that based the loan on the property itself as I am very sharp into finding good deals and have built a trusting relationship with them.
You could also control the property by having a 6 month purchase option contract on that property and then assign your rights to a retail buyer or other investor.
Trust me, if you can find deals like that, finding the money is easy.
Regards…
Michael K
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
80/20 loan – interest only on the investment property.