How To Get Short Sale Funding

If you're a pre-foreclosure investor, having short sale funds available to finance all of your deals is the perfect investor solution to take advantage of today's booming foreclosure market.

In the current economic climate there is no income, no cash, and no credit required. You can obtain funding to close all of your deals in 48 hrs!

With the sub-prime mortgage debacle, and the recent tightening of the credit markets, you have no doubt noticed how much more difficult it is to acquire financing for almost any real estate deal these days.

In the past, plenty of hard money options, along with double closings and simultaneous closings made closing REO's and Short Sales a breeze.

However, with the credit crunch, mortgage fraud, and tighter restrictions with lenders and title companies, closing on Real Estate Acquisitions isn't as easy as it used to be.

However, there is still one very simple and easy way to close your REO, and Short Sale transactions without using double closings, hard money, income verification, none of your own cash, No AAA credit, No simultaneous closings, or even the over complex land trusts.

That method is using back-to-back closings to get all of your short sale deals closed and funded on time. Back to back closings take a short sale deal and turn it into two separate and distinct transactions.

The first transaction is the homeowner facing foreclosure selling to the pre-foreclosure investor. The second transaction is the real estate investor then selling the property to the end retail buyer.

However, even if you are using a back to back closing, and your end retail buyer has secured their funds, what makes this work is that you need to secure your own funding, as the real estate investor.

So where do you get this funding of your deals? This is often called transactional funding, and today, there are many lenders making these types of loans. Lenders love transactional funding, because they are only lending for a period of a few hours, and this represents zero risk to the private investor's cash.

With the end buyer's loan already approved and in place, two separate and distinct transactions take place on the closing day. The first is the investor purchasing the short sale deal from the distressed homeowner.

This is funded by the transactional funding company. Immediately after this transaction has closed, the investor is then turning around and immediately selling the property to the end buyer.

The end buyer is using funds obtained by him through a traditional loan, or cash through lenders like Upperhouse Mortgage. Most conventional lenders today won't have any issue funding these loans.

The only such exception are FHA loans, which at the time of writing this article, have a 90 day seasoning requirement. However, as the real estate market changes, and the housing market remains volatile, it is very possible that the FHA might change its guidelines.

Transactional funding is the perfect way for pre-foreclosure investors to fund their short sale deals in today's foreclosure ridden market. There are plenty of choices for funding companies, all willing to fund these simple, easy short sale transactions.

However, one of these companies will even pay you a hefty commission to find deals for them up to $50 Million Dollars. You find it, they buy it, and you get paid a hefty commission. There will never be a better time for you to "Think And Grow Rich" in Real Estate!