If you’re researching trust deed investments or looking for new mortgage brokers to fund or buy existing Notes from, you’ll want to know if the rate of return matches your investment goals. The last thing you want is to be a low-leverage, lower return investor repeatedly being offered high-leverage, higher yielding paper that could lead to problems and headaches down the road.
If you’re in the research phase of trust deed investing, you are probably looking online, talking to mortgage brokers and to friends who have experience funding private money loans. There is a lot of information available about the Note, Deed of Trust, and Security Instrument. However, there’s not much information about the real-life problems that arise with trust deed investments.
First Capital Trust Deeds is a California-based mortgage broker specializing in mortgages for real estate investors, including Private Money, NonQM, Conventional, and Bank Portfolio programs. FCTD holds broker and/or lender licenses in five states:
Like most of First Capital Trust Deed’s current trust deed investors, you have funded private money loans in the past and are familiar with how the process works. Maybe you’ve worked with other private money mortgage brokers over the years and working with FCTD is new for you.
Usually when a lender does a bridge loan, the borrower will improve the property and the advance rate will decrease, not increase. This blog post discusses the how trust deed investors need to beware of predevelopment margin erosion on the loans they fund.
At First Capital Trust Deeds, we run background checks to underwrite private money and hard money loans, especially when working with a new borrower for the first time. Background checks have helped us discover some red flags or helped fill in the information gaps when something in the conversation with a potential borrower didn’t seem right and we couldn’t figure it out but knew something was off.
Are you a real estate investor or house flipper looking for better hard money fix and flip financing pricing on your next acquisition? Or, are you new to flipping houses and want to know what it costs for hard money fix and flip financing for your first project?
First Capital Trust Deeds originates agricultural hard money loans for ranchers, farmers, vintners, and cannabis growers throughout California, Oregon, and Washington.
Many real estate investors new to hard money loans ask, “Does a hard money loan appear on my credit report?” This question comes up several times each year from people concerned that a hard money loan will impact or jeopardize loans they need for other properties.
Yes, First Capital Trust Deeds originates hard money loans for properties listed by online real estate companies like Auction.com and Hubzu.com.
