I love you. I love you not. I love you. I love you not.
Financing is the life blood of real estate – especially for real estate investors, developers and re-habbers. When times are good, lenders are BEGGING for your business. Do you remember when there was so much money chasing deals, if you had a pulse you qualified? Ahhh….the good ‘ole days. But we digress.
Today, it’s a different story. Lender’s lust for lending has grown cold unless you’re stacked with cash and have a nice asset base. And even then it’s hard to get a date to the funding dance. Lenders can be so fickle!
Of course the drive to reproduce profits is hard to suppress. To find out what’s happening on the funding scene from a developer’s perspective, we decided to call someone who’s been on the prowl for funding for most of this real estate recession.
In the radio love shack for this episode:
- Your host with the most, Robert Helms
- Your co-host with the almost, Russell Gray
- Special Guest, International Real Estate Developer and Summit at Sea Faculty Member, Beth Clifford
What are you going to do when the well runs dry? Are you going to run away and hide? (Hint: Fats Domino – late 50’s when the Godfather first started investing.)
When the flow of capital to the market place abruptly stopped, many real estate investors’ and developers’ financial hearts stopped beating. Despite various attempts by the Federal Reserve and Washington DC to get money flowing again, it still hasn’t happened. So vulture firms sprang up and have been carrying off the carcasses of the permanently broken-hearted, while there are many walking wounded who may never love real estate again.
But there are also a number of stalwart real estate lovers who refuse to be put off by a little (okay, a LOT) of adversity. How may times are you willing to take “No” to get to a “Yes”. A yes is SO worth it!
And even though many of the old haunts like commercial banks aren’t too flush with good prospects, new establishments are opening all the time – where private capital and creativity are coming together to hook up investors with capital.
To cut to the chase, and avoid an NR rating, in this episode we get our special guest to reveal some of the lengths she’s willing to go to find money for her projects. And though you may never be an international real estate developer managing multi-million dollar projects, you can take the same business principles and apply them to your project – no matter how small. Yes, it’s true. When you’re in love, size doesn’t matter.
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