Out of the Ashes - How Can Someone Get A Loan These Days???

Short video: http://www.sunpacmortgage.com/2012/11/05/how-can-i-get-a-home-loan/

I have empirical evidence of the real estate market recovery.  Statistics I monitor that have seen a dramatic turn recently.  It has me more excited about the recovery than housing sales. 

My Past Borrowers are buying houses, and they are using Hard Money to do it.  And it’s logical that they would. 

Picture this, my office did over 400 loans annually up to 2005 when the market tanked.  The average Borrower up until 2005 borrowed 80% of the value of their home.  A lot of them got a “free” home equity line of credit to boot as the lenders were giving those out like it was Halloween candy! 

Then values were slashed in half in Sonoma County where I live.  The median priced home in August 2005 was $619,000 and it dumped all the way down to a median of $305,000 last year.  In outlying counties, the drop was as much as 66%.

So anyone who borrowed to 80% of the value of their home and then saw a 50% decline in value, has been foreclosed upon, did a short sale or is hanging in there hoping that values might recover to their former glory.

It was a deal killer for my business because in the pre-debacle days, the biggest quantity of loans in my company came from Past Borrowers, that is past clients.  In second place were Referrals from Past Borrowers.   That source of business virtually went away from 2005 until only very recently.

Over 50% of the loans written in my office this month are Past Borrowers.  That’s way up from 0%.  Now that’s a recovery!

And it’s because of Hard Money.  Every one of those Past Borrowers has either a foreclosure or a short sale – or both in their recent credit history.  Many have a recent bankruptcy.  Not even their favorite bank will loan to them.  Hard Money will.  With a good down payment or equity in the property and an ability to make the monthly payments, I can do that loan.

Forest Tardibuono- The Guy in the White Hat - is a CA DRE Broker with more than 24 years of experience in real estate and lending throughout North Bay. His phone number is (707) 523-2099.  See the regularly updated website @ www.sunpacmortgage.com.

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