How To Use Life Insurance To Protect Your Real Estate Holdings

How To Use Life Insurance To Protect Your Real Estate Holdings Insurance can be a powerful tool for protecting real estate investments. Depending on their risk tolerance and skill set, real estate investors have different strategies for utilizing insurance and...

What Is Revenue-based Financing?

For some reason lately I’ve received a ton of calls about revenue-based financing. Most of the callers want to know how it works, and what are the pros and cons of the financing technique. Read on and I’ll try to give a simple explanation of how it works and why a...

How To Write a Good Real Estate Development Financing Proposal

We tend to receive a 4 or 5 development/construction financing proposals weekly from current and/or prospective clients.  More experienced developers will typically use a standard template for their financing proposals that encompasses the required information that...

The Debt vs Equity Conundrum

As with any capital intensive business, the ability to execute on your business plan depends not only on raising the right amount of capital, but also the right type of capital from the right source. The “capital type” decisions comes down to one of two categories: ...
Commercial Construction Loans Primer

Commercial Construction Loans Primer

We will usually get 1 or 2 projects a day from sponsors or brokers asking whether we can get their construction projects financed. We usually subject the project to a quick quantitative analysis to determine whether we should pursue financing for a project. This...