This blog (weblog) is for real estate investors, agents and brokers interested in Flipping Houses and Commercial Properties. Here you will find:

  • How-to instructional articles, videos and information about private funding for real estate flip transactions
  • News and information about industry regulations, business practices and private lender financing trends

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Short Funding is Moving to Transactional Funding

Transactional Funding for Investors Announcing our new Home!  Transactional Funding for Real Estate Investors. Thanks to our valued clients, Short Funding has experienced rapid growth and now has a new name, new face (website), a new level of service and extended funding products for professional real estate investors. Existing members will be migrated to the [...]

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Wet vs. Dry Funding Real Estate Wholesale Flips

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Title Company Rules Change Procedures for Short Sale and REO Investors The difference between wet funding and dry funding a double close can mean the difference between success and failure for your wholesale flip profits to be earned.  Dry funding risks the deal, wet funding is safer and more readily accepted by title companies. Wet [...]

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Simultaneous or Back-to-Back Closing?

A simultaneous closing means that the investor uses the buyer’s money to purchase the property and then resell the deed without funding his or her purchase. In a back-to-back closing, both sides are funded separately.

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How to Fund Short Sale Flips

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Transactional funding loans (“Flash Cash”) are a new lending product and procedure to the residential real estate industry, most commonly used in short sale or flip transactions. The product is born from increased scrutiny and regulation in our business, and the refusal of most title companies to perform simultaneous closings. These new title company and [...]

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My Friend the Short Sale

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“Short Sale;” meant nothing to most people just a few years ago. It was term found sparingly in the conversations of a few real estate agents who had to deal with one of “those” properties. Now, with the misfortune of the mortgage and financial meltdown, the term “short sale” is on the tip of the [...]

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Hey Cowboy, Where’s the Cattle?

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Pick Your Funding Partners Carefully The phrase “do what you say you are going to do” is underappreciated. Fulfilling your commitments, both verbally and in writing, is the most basic business principle. Doing what you say you are going to do sure seems sophomoric doesn’t it? Unfortunately, in the world of chaos, greed, competition and [...]

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