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When investors pool financial and intellectual resources to invest in properties and real estate projects larger than they could afford or manage on their own, they are practicing real estate syndication. A partnership between two or more investors. In most real estate syndications, the sponsor puts the deal together and ...
Real Estate Secured Promissory Notes
A promissory note, also known as a mortgage note, holds real estate as its collateral. The note, for short, details exactly how, when, and where a borrower will make payments and explains different payment default scenarios and potential outcomes. One of those outcomes if the note is secured by real ...
Any professional offering a service related to real estate or whose business model revolves around any part of the real estate investing process. Real estate professionals include agents, property managers, general contractors, and real estate investors ...
Property that is owned by a lender after a foreclosure ...
A self-directed individual retirement account holding real estate investments. These accounts can hold almost any alternative asset, but investors who focus on real estate often refer to them as real estate IRA’s instead of simply self-directed IRA’s ...
Real Estate Investment Trust – REIT
A REIT is a company that owns, operates, and/or finances some type of income-producing real estate. REITs are available to investors in the form of shares that may be bought, sold, and traded much like stocks and other securities. REITs are designed to be more liquid than physical real estate ...
A unique piece of physical property, both the land and the buildings on it ...
A provision often included in adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) that limits how much the interest rate can increase over a predetermined period of time. Some ARMs have a lifetime cap as well as a cap for certain periods of adjustment ...
A legal instrument used to transfer interest in a property. A quitclaim deed does not necessarily ensure clear title, since a grantor can sign a quitclaim deed even if they have no interest in the property ...
A legally binding agreement that allows a buyer the option to purchase something at a predetermined price on or before a predetermined time. These options have real value and may be bought and sold independently of the purchase item in most cases unless the option excludes this ...
An agreement between a buyer and a seller of a piece of real estate defining the terms under which the transaction may be completed. In some cases, this agreement may be assigned to another party ...
An individual in charge of regular maintenance of a rental property ...
Certain transactions within a retirement plan that violates Internal Revenue Code 4975. Prohibited transactions include, but not limited to, living or utilizing the property owned by your IRA, using your IRA to buy property from a disqualified person, and creating a situation where you or a disqualified person to you ...
Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
Private mortgage insurance is designed to mitigate a lender’s risk on a loan. Borrowers with lower credit scores, lower down payments, and other potentially problematic issues with their loan could be required to purchase and pay PMI on their property until a certain equity threshold or payment history is established ...
A non-institutional lending entity that may be an individual or a company. Private lenders may also be called “non-bank lenders” and tend to lend based not only on conventional creditworthiness but also on the value of the collateral and other more custom considerations. Find out more about private lenders (and ...
The market where borrowers and mortgage originators (usually banks, mortgage brokers, or credit unions) come together to negotiate terms for loans and conduct mortgage transactions ...
Personality Profile Assessment
A short, standardized, objective assessment designed to help employers, managers, and team captains assess whether current and potential team members have the aptitude and affinity for specific tasks, projects, and roles in the company and on their specific team ...
When a borrower is making payments on time, the note on a loan is considered to be performing. A loan on which the borrower is making payments on time and in full ...
Passive real estate investors power real estate investing transactions by providing funding for deals and allowing active investors to manage the actual investing process, be it leasing a property, renovating it, or selling it ...
The amount of work that each dollar you invest “costs” you a property. For example, a typical vacation rental has a high PPD because it requires a great deal of maintenance. Corporate housing rentals tend to have lower PPD because the tenants take good care of the properties in most ...
A property occupied by the owner of the property. Owner-occupied houses are primary residences in most cases, although you may hear some investors refer to vacation homes in this way if the vacation property is not leveraged for any other income-generating purposes ...
A property representing a potential deal for an investor located without the property being formally listed for sale. Off-market deals may include pocket listings, which are not listed on the MLS, as well as leads generated by mailings and other forms of motivated-seller solicitation ...
In real estate, the term note is shorthand for mortgage note, and refers to the promissory note secured by a specific mortgage loan with a piece of property as collateral ...
When a borrower falls behind on payments on a loan, the note is considered to be non-performing. A loan on which the borrower has stopped making payments. These note may also be called distressed notes ...
Net operating income (NOI) is the annual income generated by a rental property after subtracting all expenses from operations. Note: NOI does not factor in your financing costs. The cash flow left when you subtract all reasonable and necessary operating expenses from your property’s revenue, excluding principal and interest on ...
