Transcript
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What if the bank says your equity doesn't exist, your Airbnb turns into a money pit, and your very first investment deal needs seller financing at 5% all at once.
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Today we're solving three rookie dilemmas that could unlock six figure upside or sink your savings if you guess wrong.
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This is the Real Estate Rookie podcast and I'm Ashley Kerrick.
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And I'm Tony J. Robinson. And with that, let's jump into today's first question. So this question comes from Jonathan and he says, I recently purchased a home with a hard money loan and I'm nearly finished with the renovations. I plan to live in the house. The value of the house has gone up significantly due to partially cash invested and primarily due to sweat equity. I'm being told by my mortgage broker that the only valuation that would be looked at is the original purchase price of the house because I haven't owned it for more than a year. It Is this a quote unquote, find a different lender type of issue, or are there laws about this? I basically want to make sure I can access my equity. I'd like to take as much as I can without paying a penalty in the form of PMI or a much higher interest rate. Are equity lines different? Can I take a regular mortgage and get a new equity line immediately after for 85% of the new value? Just trying to understand options here. And while I'm not new to home renovations, the financing part is new to me. All right, so a couple of things here, and we recently talked about this in a different episode, but there's something called a seasoning period on a home purchase. And different banks, depending on how they operate, have different seasoning periods, but typically what you see is somewhere in the 6 month to 12 month range. Now, I'm not sure if like, you know, like Fannie and Freddie have guidelines on this. I would assume that they do and theirs are probably more strict. Um, but oftentimes you'll see that a lot of banks or credit unions, local banks, can, can do it within six months. If you attempt to refinance or tap into that new value in less than six months, then yes. Oftentimes they'll only appraise it at the purchase price or sometimes purchase price plus cost. Right. So you can't really tap into the equity that you've built up. Ash, have you seen anything different in your investing experience?
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Actually, the live in flip that I'm doing now, I bought it with private money. I used my line of credit to do some rehab to the property to make it livable and get it somewhat up to my standards. And I actually refinanced after 30 days. So we at least got the appraisal after 30 days of the renovations things being done. So I'd only owned it that 30 day period and the bank did the refinance with me and they took the appraised value of the property. This was a very small loan, local bank and I can't remember for sure but I'm pretty sure I ended up choosing the portfolio loan option where it's actually an in house loan with that local bank where it's not, you know, a government backed alone. So that could make a difference on it. But you could and I don't know, it didn't say in this question if this was going to be a primary home or if it's a rental property. But you could also go to the commercial so side of lending for a bank and refinance. That way you're not going to get as great of terms but could be some kind of financing. You hold on to property for a couple of years where they usually do not have a seasoning period. And they could also do like an appraisal off the, the income based approach, a DSCR loan too. I've also done that where I've refinanced in a short period of time to pay back hard money and there was no seasoning period there. So I think the, the problem might be just looking at traditional loan types and you know, expand more into other loan products.
