Today’s episode is going to be geared for newbies or people who might be unsure how to start or where to kind of start the conversation with a potential borrower and it goes hand in hand with a sort of an announcement, I’m proud to announce. Happy to announce, relieved to announce that you can finally now get your copy of the private lenders loan application Guide and checklist over at the website, privatelenderpodcast.com and I’m going to kind of walk you through it a little bit today. So, if you have don’t have it yet. I would, you know, go get it and save this episode for later when you can sit down at a desk and kind of look through it. So if you’re running, driving to work, obviously you’re not going to be able to do those things or at the gym.
GET TO A SAFE SPOT
So if you have to then go ahead and pause it and come back later. You can go to the Private Lender Podcast.com and just sign up anywhere, any sign up form that you see, name an email, fill that out and you will get the private lenders loan application Guide and checklist. And I put it together to kind of walk through a couple of ideas or themes and notions. And I’m going to go through those with you here today. I’ve always said that when it comes to a loan, I like to look at the person a their process and then the property. And that’s what I lay out in this, in this checklist, you want to know how much real estate investing experience they have if they’re just starting off or if they’re new, politely send them over to hard money lenders. That’s what they’re there for is to really help new people, new people, newbies, first-timers, be successful and let them do it with hard money, not yours.
LOOK FOR GRAY HAIR
That’s, that’s my suggestion. Look for what you’re, you know, if you have a borrow who’s been doing this for 20 years and they’re a flipper and they continue to flip, that’s great. That’s someone you might be comfortable with, especially if you have a good relationship with them. If you have a flipper or let’s say, let’s say you have a landlord who wants to go into flipping that process, I’m not too comfortable with because here’s somebody who has succeeded as or succeeded as a flipper, rehabber and now it’s to switch gears. I’m sorry, I just messed that up. Didn’t I? Someone who’s successful as a landlord, but now they want to switch gears and get some quick cash again. I would send them over to the hard money folks until they get a few flips under their belt. It’s a, it’s a little bit different game and I like to invest with people who know what they’re doing and stay in their lane.
So that is a touch on the person you want to know if do they have, what’s the record like in not just a criminal record or any, what was their record as a person do that? Have they been arrested a lot? You know, one or two times. Okay. Or not. I’m saying, okay, but what was the, what were the circumstances behind, do they have judgments against them? Have they been sued? Because here’s it. This is where it gets tricky because I, I’m trying to think of someone who’s landlord for a very long time who at least wasn’t threatened to be sued or contacted by attorneys, by tenants that know how to game the system so to speak. Uh, and I’m not trying to condone slumlords or anything like that....
