Understanding the Value of Construction to Permanent Real Estate Investment Loans
Real estate investing is all about finding opportunities and capitalizing on them.
Learning to recognize these opportunities takes time and experience. You look at a run-down property and see a perfect fix and flip. You look at a foreclosed house and see an ideal single-family rental. You see a vacant lot and see consistent positive cash flow.
But you don’t always see the end of the story at the start. That’s why investors need flexible financing options that let them capitalize on opportunities and leverage their cash, all while avoiding time wasters.
One way to gain flexibility is by finding the right lender with the right loan products. And perhaps the most flexible financing option is working with a lender that covers both rehab and rental holding costs.
At Lima One Capital, we listen to our customers, and they have been clamoring for a construction to permanent financing solution. We are pleased to launch Fix2Rent® and Build2Rent® solutions.These financing options serve real estate investors who want financing that covers both rehab or construction and rental.
Why is this kind of Fix2Rent or Build2Rent loan solution valuable for investors? These program highlights reveal the reasons you may want to consider construction to permanent financing for your real estate portfolio.
Streamlined Underwriting
Closing a loan requires details, documents, time and money. Even when you work with a lender like Lima One Capital that specializes in quick, efficient closing, the underwriting and closing process takes time.
A construction to permanent loan or rehab to permanent loan solution eliminates much of the work that comes along with it when it comes to transition from the fix and flip or new construction loan to permanent takeout financing. This streamlined process reduces the time you will have to spend dealing with details, leaving you more time to keep your real estate investment process running.
Fewer Fees
Real estate closings come with closing costs. Lima One Capital provides pricing concessions on a project that starts with a fix and flip loan and then refinances into 30-year rental financing. Investors also need streamlined loan underwriting, loan payoffs, seasoning requirements, and loan servicing–and Lima One provides those features as well.
Better Terms
With this type of financing, you can arrange for an interest-only monthly payment during construction, as well as a fully amortized 30-year loan afterward. This gives you a preferable monthly payment during both the fix and hold portions of the loan, right from the start.
Flexibility
Lima One’s rehab to perm and construction to perm financing solutions empower you to seamlessly move from a fix and flip approach to a rental approach. But they should not require you to do so. Look for a loan product that lets you stay flexible in case you choose to sell your property after fixing it up if the market forces indicate that is the most profitable approach.
Lima One Capital’s Fix2Rent® loan solution allows you to exit a loan once rehab is done, instead of converting it. So if you get an amazing offer to sell the home, you can take it. The parallel is also true of our Build2Rent® loan solution once construction is complete. This option to exit maintains your flexibility as an investor, so that you continue to build your real estate portfolio in the most strategic and profitable manner.
BRRR-friendly
The BRRR strategy, which stands for Buy-Rent-Rehab-Refinance, is a popular way that real estate investors build their portfolios. A loan solution like Fix2Rent® matches this strategy by making the refinance step incredibly easy.
The Fix2Rent® loan solution makes it easy to convert from a fix and flip construction interest-only bridge loan to a 30-year fully amortized rental loan, or a rental loan with an ARM or interest-only period, quickly and easily, closing the BRRR loop and letting the investor move on to the next BRRR project. This makes it much easier to add a fourth R (Repeat) to BRRR investing.
Takeway
As you’re building a real estate portfolio, you’re going to encounter some situations where a fix and flip approach is most profitable, and others where holding a rental property makes more sense. Finding a Fix2Rent® solution for a fix and flip loan gives you the flexibility to take either approach, depending on your particular investment needs.
If you’d like more information about Lima One Capital’s Fix2Rent® and Build2Rent® loan solutions, contact us today. Our team will happily work with you to determine if it’s the right fit for your real estate investment portfolio.
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