I recently got a call from one of our non-local real estate agents who works with some of our investors in another market and she asked me if I knew a good source for hard money in her area. Many hard money lenders will only lend in their local market or to people that they know and have an established relationship with. So, I could not refer her to work with the hard money lenders that I have in my local market.

With the recent pro-investor changes in the seasoning guidelines for buying HUD properties and reselling them, I feel that hard money will be key for many investors to quickly gain control of these deals in order to do some fix up and immediately resell them to end buyers. So, finding great hard money lenders in your local market will be an important tool for investing in HUD properties.

So, here’s the short and the long answer to how to find hard money lenders to buy properties.

The short answer is that I am always actively looking for hard money lenders to share with our Real Estate Investor Bronze Members. If you are a hard money lender and want to lend money to our investors, contact me directly.

The long answer is that you can find hard money lenders yourself by networking with other local investors at your local real estate clubs and associations. You can also find private lenders by talking to people you know about the deal you are looking at and asking them if they know of someone who might be willing to lend money on it. You can also search out hard money lenders in the “money to lend” section of your local newspapers (check all of them) and through on-line classified websites. Of course, a good mortgage broker that works with investors will also have access to hard money lenders.

As an aside, we do provide extensive training on how to raise private money for our Real Estate Investor Bronze Members inside the Real Estate Investor Wiki.

While we continue to seek out additional hard money lenders, I encourage you to find one yourself using the tips above. If you find a great one, let me know about them as well so I can share them with others. If you find a bad one (and there are some out there), let me know about them too so I can tell people to avoid using them.

Until my next post,

James