It can come as a first, second, or sometimes even third mortgage. If you don’t owe anything on your house, you can put a HELOC in first position. With an existing mortgage, it’s put in second position.
It’s a Line of Credit
A HELOC is set up kind of like a credit card. The bank sets a limit they’ll lend and a term for how long.
A HELOC can pay for almost anything related to your projects. You can go to Home Depot and get materials, you can pay your contractors, you can make a down payment. It can take the form of a bank wire, a debit card, or whatever other option your bank gives you.
At the end of the month or the end of a project, you pay the HELOC off, and all the credit is freed up. You can use it again, pay it down, then use it again for as long as the term is active.
Typically, the bank will set a 10-year term. So for 10 years, you can use and re-use it up to the limit they set. If your property goes up in value during that time, it’s possible to get a refinance for a higher limit.
It’s a Faster, Easier, Cheaper Source of Money!
Any expenses you can put on a HELOC frees up your investment experience. When you borrow from other places (hard money lenders, banks, etc), there’s more paperwork and more cost.
HELOCs are easier, faster, and cheaper. A successful investor uses every leverage tool at their disposal, so it’s important to tap into this one.
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Here are 5 ways to use hard money right as a real estate investor.
Real estate investing is all about making profit.
And sometimes, to make profit, you need to use hard money loans.
When is hard money your best option in real estate investing? Let’s look at 5 situations where you should use hard money to fuel your investments.
1. Using Hard Money for Speed
The number one way hard money makes you money in real estate investing is how fast they are.
Look at a real example from one of our clients.
He was able to buy a property in Colorado at a $30,000 discount.
Five other people were bidding as high as $330,000 on the property.
But our client was able to close in less than a week, so the sellers accepted his bid of $300,000.
How Much Does a Hard Money Loan Cost?
People can get tripped up with the cost of hard money. Wouldn’t the price of the loan leave our client at a loss here? Let’s compare his hard money loan on this deal to his competitors with a bank loan.
For hard money, he spent $7,500 on origination. A bank loan would have cost $4,500.
Six months’ worth of interest on the hard money loan adds up to $15,000. The same time on a bank loan would accrue $9,900 of interest.
Appraisal underwriting, and processing fees were lower with hard money at $984 (vs $1500 with the bank.)
Overall, our client did pay a lot more for the loan itself using hard money. His hard money loan cost $23,484, and a bank loan would have cost $15,525. That’s an extra cost of $7,959 to use hard money.
Can You Save Money by Using Hard Money for Real Estate?
Despite seeming more expensive, hard money still gave this investor a discount. Why? Hard money enabled him to close fast, so he got a better deal on purchase price.
What was the total cost of hard money? The discounted price of the property ($300,000) plus the hard money loan costs equals $323,484.
What about the bank loan? The home price of $330,000 plus bank loan costs totals $345,525.
This is a savings of $22,041. Just for closing fast with hard money rather than using the cheaper but slower bank loan.
Using hard money for speed works even when the discount is smaller.
Let’s say our client had bid only 10,000 less than the other investors. He still would’ve saved $1,191 up front on the deal.
Hard Money Savings without a Purchase Price Discount
The option of buying real estate with bank loans is often cheaper. However, in many investment situations, using a bank loan is not a viable option.
If you have to wait 4 weeks to clear your bank loan, but only 4 days for a hard money loan… that becomes the difference between closing on the property or not.
Ultimately, even if using hard money doesn’t get you the lowest price, you still save money in the long run. If the speed of a hard money loan gets you a property, you will still come out on top.
Buying then selling a profitable fix-and-flip will always make more money than never buying and never selling.
2. Use Hard Money if You Have Low Credit
Institutional lenders, private equity, and banks have credit score minimums. If you don’t have a high enough score, you don’t get a loan.
Hard money lenders, on the other hand, are typically not credit-score-driven. Yes, they’ll probably look at your credit, but they won’t base your loan on it.
Real estate investors can have low credit scores for many reasons:
Usage – You put your flip rehab costs on credit cards
Thin Credit – You have few lines of credit, or young lines of credit
One-time Event – You had good credit, then life happened and your score temporarily dipped.
Hard money lenders understand that these issues are not always a reflection of your ability to pay back loans.
That’s why hard money lenders don’t worry about your credit score, just your credit.
Do you have a history of late payments? Are you defaulting? That will negatively affect you with a hard money lender.
If you are responsible with credit, but have a score banks won’t accept, a hard money lender will be a good option.
3. Using Hard Money Because It’s Flexible
Sometimes you need an outside-of-the-box lender.
Unique Properties – If you have a house or area that’s unique (maybe a dome house, an old manufacturer, etc.), hard money lenders will give you more options.
Rural Areas – Most local banks and large hard money lenders don’t lend outside of MSAs. Traditional lenders might not cover thirty miles outside of an urban area, but many small hard money lenders will.
Cross Liens – Hard money lenders have more flexibility putting a cross lien on another property. This is useful if you don’t have a lot of money to put down, but do have another property with a lot of equity.
Gap funding – Sometimes a mortgage doesn’t quite cover all the costs of your project. Hard money can fill in those gaps.
Lot splits – Splitting off a lot can be a headache with a traditional lender. A hard money lender is more flexible with the time it takes to get a survey and everything else prepared. This allows you to split off a lot, sell the house, and keep the lot.
Then rate-and-term refinance into a longer-term loan.
If you want to get into BRRRR transactions (rental properties), you have to find a hard money lender or private lender who will loan you 75-80% of the after-repair value of the property you want to buy.
There are many other reasons real estate investors use hard money. Here are a few:
Banks limit you to 2-3 loans. If you’ve maxed out those lenders, hard money can help.
Hard money can work as a bridge loan. It covers the down payment of your next property until your other bank-funded property sells.
You can keep a project off your credit. Hard money typically doesn’t show up on your credit report.
Investment beginners might need help with their first couple projects started before banks will lend to them.
Complete a started project. If you end up with a property mid-flip, many banks won’t lend for it. But a hard money lender can easily provide a gap loan to finish the rehab.
Hard money has the flexibility to let you come in with other funding sources. (If you want to put repair costs on a credit card, want to use an OPM lender, etc.).
How to Use Hard Money for Real Estate
Want to learn more about real estate funding? Wondering if a hard money loan might be right for your investment?
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Cash flow for BRRRR could take a big hit in 2022. Here are some alternatives to try.
We’re probably three to six months out from the really cheap homes getting on the market. How can you plan to finance BRRRRs as values go down but loan requirements go up?
BRRRRs are about getting into value-add properties with little to no money down. But as we’ve mentioned, getting into the properties will be the hard part with money tightening.
Will there be any good alternatives to BRRRR in 2022?
Subject Tos As Alternatives to BRRRR
Here’s another way to look at rental properties with a BRRRR spirit:
What if you could take over someone’s loan and house with no money down, no credit or other requirements, 100% financing, and a great rate?
That’s what subject tos are.
You’ll see more and more subject tos popping up soon. Maybe someone bought their home at 100% last year, but values have come down 10-15% so they can’t sell without losing money or putting more in. People don’t want to go through foreclosure, so in a situation like this, they’d be interested in a subject to.
You can take over the mortgage and put the home in your name. You can do it properly, through title, and create a rental property using someone else’s financing.
This is a great way to purchase rental properties as an alternative to BRRRR in 2022 if you don’t have leverage.
Owner Carries in 2022
An owner carry can happen when the seller owns a property free and clear. In this situation, the owner takes on the mortgage.
The seller would likely plan to invest the money they get when the house sells. But the stock market is up and down, and banks only offer 2% maximum interest rates in CDs and accounts.
For the owner, carrying the mortgage when they sell to you is a way to double or triple their interest rate, secured by an asset they already know.
For you, an owner carry is easier, cheaper money. You won’t find a 5% interest rate, with 100% financing and no credit check anywhere else.
Open-Minded Financing Alternatives During Inflation
There’s creative financing available in the real estate investment world.
Whether it’s subject tos, owner carries, or OPM relationships, it’s important to look always into your options for doing zero down investments. Especially now that loans are less likely to cover 100% financing, it’s important to stay open to alternatives to BRRRR in 2022.
Gap funding is a way to get $0 down BRRRR properties!
You should use gap funding for BRRRRs the same way you do fix-and-flips. The biggest differences happen at closing.
Similarities to Fix-and-Flips
Gap funding is used very similarly for both BRRRR and flips: for down payments, construction costs, or carry costs.
The bulk of the money not covered by a hard money lenders becomes the down payment. Most lenders require at least 10% for this cost.
Your primary loan does not always cover construction costs – rehab, repair, or anything necessary to bring the house up to the ARV and onto the market.
Also, some investors like to use gap funding for the carry costs of the project: the mortgage payment, the insurance, and all other monthly costs.
Gap funders can (and should) be used for all these phases of your BRRRR project.
Gap Funding Process During BRRRRs
Use BRRRR gap funding like fix-and-flip gap funding: for down payment, construction, or carry costs.
For BRRRR though, you need to close the gap funding loan on the same day as closing. You’ll also need to be sure you close the gap funding at the title company, with your lender. So you’ll need to know in advance that your hard money lender allows gap funding with a lien on the property.
Protecting Your BRRRR Refinance While Using Gap Funding
If you close your gap loan too late or incorrectly, your long-term lender can consider your refinance cash-out, not rate-and-term. This will lower the LTV on your refinance.
It’s important to get the money for your loan back in the refinance. In a good BRRRR transaction, you walk away with a house that’s cash-flowing and little to no money out of your pocket.
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To profit in real estate investing, you’ll need to know: What does ARV mean?
Real Estate Investing: What Does ARV Mean?
ARV is the after repair value. It’s what the property will appraise for, or sell for, on the current market once the scope of work is completed.
You estimate a property’s ARV by looking at the prices of similar homes in the current market.
What Are Comps?
Comps (comparables) are those similar homes you look at. It’s important that your comps have the same value as your property.
For example, if your deal is for a 950 square-foot home, you’ll compare it to other 900 to 1,000 square-foot homes on the market, not a 2,000 square-foot one. Similarly, compare a 2-bedroom, 1-bath house to houses of the same specifications – not to 4-bedroom, 2-bath homes.
How To Get an Accurate ARV
For your ARV to be accurate, you need to stay true to your scope of work. If you only repaint and re-carpet a house that needed much more work, you won’t get top-of-the-market value when you try to sell or refinance.
On the other hand, if your scope of work is a full remodel, your comparables should be homes that are fully remodeled, so you don’t miss out on any profit.
The money you put into fixing up a house isn’t a direct indicator of how much the house will be worth. What the property looks like when it’s finished has nothing to do with how much it cost to get it there.
What Does ARV Mean for Profit in Real Estate Investing?
Estimated profit is what you expect to make on the transaction between:
buying the property
fixing it up
selling it again.
Additionally, equity is the difference between the amount you owe and what the property is worth. You build equity on your rentals by:
buying properties with a low purchase price and a high ARV
successfully refinancing after a flip
paying down the mortgage with rent income.
If you want to find the true profitability of a deal, then use your ARV and comparables:
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Lenders are upping the requirements for a BRRRR loan. Here’s what to know to prepare.
BRRRR has two loans – hard money to buy, long-term to refinance. With inflation, both loans will have lower LTVs.
What else should you expect?
Hard Money BRRRR Loan Requirements
Many private money companies – particularly bigger, national lenders – are requiring 20% down.
Hard Money Mike is a little different. We fund using real private money, so our loans aren’t as dictated by federal rates. We still go up to 100% on financing, as long as you’re approved for your long-term loan up-front.
Smaller lenders can give you a better advantage with BRRRR during inflation. But you should still expect many private lenders to offer lower LTVs.
Bank BRRRR Loans with Inflation
Long-term loans are decreasing, making it harder to cash out. Traditional lenders could go down to 70% or 65% LTVs, or just have tougher requirements.
Money is shrinking, so the pot of money available to you on either BRRRR loan is shrinking.
The Plus Side of BRRRR and Inflation
What’s the good in all of this? If you’re in a bad financial position, you’ll have a hard time continuing your real estate career in inflationary times.
But, if you’re in a good position, you’ll be able to find fantastic properties in your pricepoint. And you’ll be able to find them for 20-40% less money than you could a year ago.
Don’t fight what’s happening with the economy – figure out how to use it.
Understand BRRRR loan requirements now. If you get into a BRRRR, fix it fast and refinance fast. Figure out your BRRRR’s long-term loan first before you look for a short-term loan.
Things are changing rapidly in the real estate investment world. Get yourself in the best position to be able to work with it.
If you don’t use a HELOC in your real estate investment career, you’re missing out on these benefits.
The uses and benefits of a HELOC for a real estate investor are broad and huge. This line of credit is one of the best ways to tap into your existing money to create more money.
Let’s take a look at a few of the ways you can utilize your HELOC to benefit your real estate investments.
Benefits of a HELOC for Real Estate Investors
Down Payment
You can use a HELOC as a down payment on any loan – hard money or long-term. Anytime a lender requires a down payment, you can take the money off your home equity line of credit, and bring it to closing.
For down payments on rental properties, your lender will still require the money borrowed from your HELOC to be included in your debt ratio.
Construction Costs
For a flip or a BRRRR, you can use money from your HELOC to cover the costs of construction.
Money from a hard money lender or bank comes at a higher price. If you’d prefer to use your HELOC to cover construction costs, you can lower the amount borrowed from a lender.
A HELOC will be some of the cheapest money you can find out there – especially now with money tightening. Using it helps lower your overall costs.
Another benefit of a HELOC is the speed and flexibility. If you don’t have time to wait for your lender’s escrow process to pay your contractor, you can just pull the payment off your HELOC.
Carry Cost Benefits of a HELOC
Carry costs include monthly interest, HOA fees, mortgage payments, some materials and construction, and any other regular cost associated with owning the property.
These costs can turn into a burdensome expense on a flip. You can pull from your line of credit to cover carry costs, and when your flip sells, you can put it all back in.
The benefit of a HELOC here is that you don’t have to get lender approval or meet lender requirements before placing a bid on a property. You can pull from it, pay for the property (or at least the down payment), and refinance later if needed.
Buying Wholesale Properties
You can also buy properties from wholesalers or the regular marketplace when you otherwise couldn’t. You close with a HELOC, then go back and refinance with a hard money or bank loan.
With this strategy, you can close on a deal faster than anyone else. You don’t have to sift through the paperwork and red tape of a loan; just go to the bank and wire out the funds.
Bridge Loan Benefits of a HELOC
Some investors use their HELOC to bridge between properties.
They have one flip for sale, but they’re ready to buy their next one. They use a HELOC to cover the down payment, then pay it back when the other property sells.
You can create your own bridge loan by using a HELOC.
Lend to Other People
You can also use it to lend to other people in the real estate investment community at a profit.
You can borrow from a HELOC at a rate of 5-6%, and you could charge someone else up to 10-12%. (But of course, always be careful and protect yourself when lending to other people).
Overview of the Benefits of a HELOC
Using your HELOC allows you to use your money, without taking anything from your savings or 401k
You can tap into the equity that’s already at your disposal
It keeps projects going while typical loans are tightening up
You can get into properties quickly and refinance a few weeks later
You can avoid the higher rates of external lenders by borrowing from your HELOC
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These simple examples show you the power of leverage in real estate investing.
Real estate investors know they need loans to buy properties. But few real estate beginners understand exactly how big of a difference leverage makes.
Leverage turns property-buying into a real estate investment career. It builds real money, and a portfolio of net worth that can create generational wealth.
In this article, we’ll use simple examples to break down the power of leverage in real estate – and how maximizing leverage skyrockets your real estate career.
What Is Leverage?
In short, leverage means buying with money that isn’t yours in order to make a profit.
Leverage takes the form of loans from lenders: banks, credit unions, hard money lenders, people you know.
The greatest tool for a real estate investor is leverage.
How to Find the Power of Leverage
Let’s look at some simple numbers to show the power of leverage.
We’ll look for two things:
1) How much income can you get from a rental?
2) How much equity will a property generate over time?
Note: We’re going to use $100,000 as our base number. That might be a lot more money than you have to start with. It’s also likely a lot less money than you’ll spend for your properties.
Regardless, it’s a simple number to show the power of leverage. These same principles will apply despite your starting number or your property costs.
Now, let’s dive in.
Income without Leverage vs with Leverage
Rent is the income you get from tenants. Net rent is that income after you’ve made any loan payments for the month on that property.
Net rent is the number that’s true cash flow for you. We’ll use this number to analyze real estate income with and without the power of leverage.
Income No Leverage
Say you have $100,000 to invest in real estate.
You could take this money and buy one rental property valued at $100,000. You can invest the full $100,000 and receive $1,200 of net rent income per month, or $14,400 per year.
Income With Leverage
Now let’s see how it plays out when you involve a lender rather than buying outright.
You could talk to a lender who might offer to loan you $75,000 if you put in the other $25,000. Now, instead of pouring all of your money into one rental property, you’ll only have to use $25,000. The $75,000 covered by the lender is considered leverage.
Using lenders like this, you could buy four properties, each with a $25,000 down payment. Because you’re paying a mortgage, however, your net rent per month goes down. Your net rent is now $750 per property. This brings in $3,000 per month, or $36,000 per year.
With leverage, you have the potential to make $1,800 per month more, or an additional $21,600 per year – just from using leverage.
Net Worth without Leverage vs with Leverage
Rent income isn’t the only financial outcome of buying and renting real estate. There’s also appreciation.
According to the stats over the last 20 years, real estate goes up an average of 5.3% per year. Using this 5.3% number, one home increases value by an average of $5,000 per year.
This isn’t a straight line (ie, exactly $5,000 per year). Some years may appreciate more, some less. But over the long-term, that’s the average yearly appreciation, so we’ll use this number.
Net Worth No Leverage
Let’s see how appreciation would impact our real estate portfolio had we bought the one home outright, with no leverage.
Our single rental would have $5,000 in equity after one year, $25,000 after five years, and $150,000 after 30 years.
Net Worth with Leverage
Now let’s see the equity of the four properties purchased with leverage.
Each of the four homes increases in value by $5,000 every year. Multiply that by four, and your portfolio appreciates $20,000 per year.
Over a 30-year span, your four properties would add $650,000 to your net worth (compared to $150,000 with the single property).
Total Power of Leverage
Let’s put all these numbers together now.
Using leverage brought in an extra $21,600 of income per year, plus a total net worth increase of $600,000 over 30 years.
This is the power of leverage: bringing in extra income and raising your net worth through equity.
By using other people’s money, you can take advantage of the true wealth in real estate.
Maximizing Leverage
Now, we’ll take this example one step further. Simply using leverage unlocks a lot of money. What happens when you maximize leverage?
We looked at an example of a lender giving you 75% ($75,000 on a $100,000 property). “Maximizing” that leverage would look like getting a bigger loan. Instead of 75%, another lender might give you 80-85%.
80% Leverage
Let’s go back to the original example, but say a bank gives you 5% more. Now, you get $80,000 per $100,000 transaction.
Income with Maximized Leverage
Your down payment per property is now only $20,000, so you can buy 5 properties. But since you borrowed more money, the mortgage payment is higher, and the net rent goes down.
At this point, it may seem like you’re set up to make less money since you’re paying more on your loan. But let’s see how it plays out.
Five properties with an income of $700 per month is $3,500 per month. This works out to be $42,000 per year. Annually, that’s $6,000 more than using a 75% loan, and $27,600 more than using no leverage at all.
Equity with Maximized Leverage
For five properties, after 30 years, equity appreciates by $750,000. All that money is added to your net worth.
Maximizing your leverage in this scenario would give you $42,000 in yearly income, plus $750,000 added to the value of your properties over time.
That’s the road to generational wealth.
How to Maximize Leverage
To maximize your leverage, focus on becoming the sort of investor that attracts lenders.
Have a great credit score. Make sure your income is in line. Know the numbers lenders will ask about. Be professional about your investment career.
Having all the right pieces in place will help your leverage take you further. The more leverage you use, the better returns you’ll see – both in the short-term income and long-term equity.
Harnessing the Power of Leverage
Now you can see how leverage impacts your real estate career.
What are your next steps?
If you need an entry point into real estate investment, email Mike@HardMoneyMike.com. Ask about our 30-day fuel up challenge to learn how to maximize your leverage.
You can also join our weekly Leverage Up chat, on Thursdays from 1:15pm – 2:15pm MST at this link.
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With inflation, typical rental property loans may not do the trick. Here are some new BRRRR lending options for you.
With rates so good over the last three to four years, all BRRRR investors were looking at one loan product – the 30-year fixed mortgage.
With rates increasing, however, you might need to look beyond the 30-year fixed loan to get into good BRRRR properties. Here are some options that can bridge your properties until rates go down.
ARMs (Adjustable-Rate Mortgages) for BRRRR
You can get three-, five-, or seven-year ARMs. Whichever time length you pick, the rates will be fixed during that period. Afterward, the rates become adjustable.
In rising markets, these loans aren’t that great. In declining markets, though, they can be the perfect loan to bridge you into a rental property.
You can get an ARM for .5-2% lower than a 30-year fixed mortgage. These lower rates can cash flow a property until either prices go up and you can sell, or rates go down and you can refinance.
Interest-Only Lending Options
With the interest-only BRRRR lending option, you don’t pay any principal for the first ten years.
An interest-only loan is appealing right now because it keeps cash flowing. Your loan amount doesn’t go down, so it’s not a great option for the long-term. But it is a good lending option to get you into a property during this next market.
40-Year AM (Adjustable Mortgage)
A 40-year AM spreads the loan payments over 40 years instead of the 30 with a traditional fixed mortgage. This adjustable mortgage gives you lower monthly payments… and more cash flow.
What To Keep In Mind with These New BRRRR Lending Options
ARMs give lower rates, 40-year AMs offer lower payments, and interest-only loans postpone the principle.
Keep in mind: these loans won’t help your equity or get a property paid down quickly. But they are good options to get into properties while values are low and funding is tight.
Remember that conditions of BRRRR are ever-changing. Get plugged into the money side of investing, and talk to lenders to see what’s available for you in inflationary times.
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Don’t walk into a loan without a plan – use gap funding for flips!
During a time when lenders are offering less money up-front for investment deals, you might need more money to fill in the gaps on your fix-and-flip projects.
Here are a few phases where you might need gap funding on your project.
Down Payments
Hard money lenders require at least 10% as a down payment. This is a very common use for gap funding.
If you use gap funding for your down payment, you’ll need to find out right away whether or not your hard money lender will accept a secured gap loan on the property.
Construction Costs
Another way to use gap funding for flips is for construction costs – rehab, repair, or anything necessary to bring the house up to the ARV and onto the market. These expenses can rack up fast, and they may not be completely covered by the main loan for the flip.
Carry Costs
Some investors will only use gap funding for the carry costs during their flip.
The lender will pay the mortgage payment, the insurance, or whatever other monthly costs are required during the project. Having a gap lender for carry costs can smooth out a fix-and-flip experience.
The Reach of Gap Funding for Flips
It’s possible to coordinate with your gap lenders to cover all three of these additional costs. This is a common way investors successfully finish fix-and-flips with zero money down.
You can use gap funding however you need, as long as both the hard money lender and the gap lender agree that the loan fits their criteria.
Not all hard money lenders allow you to secure your gap loan with a lien on the property you’re closing on. And not all gap lenders will loan to you unsecured.
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