What Is A Condotel? Financing Options For Resort Unit Buyers
Big banks and agency lenders won’t touch them, because Fannie Mae specifically excludes hotel-operated projects from its buying rules.
Big banks and agency lenders won’t touch them, because Fannie Mae specifically excludes hotel-operated projects from its buying rules.
Lenders in this space qualify the deal off deposits into the business account, not off net income on a Schedule C or K-1.
The catch: the new loan is capped at the lower of the appraised value at the applicable leverage tier, or what the retiree actually paid.
Lenders don’t automatically reject these files.
You still sign a personal guaranty. The LLC changes how title is held, not how the file gets underwritten.
A strong-performing asset can offset a marginal one, which is the main reason a family office does this instead of refinancing each address separately.
Ordinary business income sitting in Box 1 that never got paid out doesn’t help you here — deposits decide, not allocations.
This is a consumer-purpose loan, and it runs on a completely different track than a DSCR loan.
The property vests directly in the LLC’s name.
It’s not a guess, and it’s not your pro forma — it’s a documented appraisal conclusion, and it’s the number that decides your leverage.
Underwriters need cash they can see, sitting in an account, not a number derived from company profit history.
They are not stated-income loans — deposits still get verified.
A large liquidity event from a business sale helps with reserves and down payment. It does not raise the leverage ceiling tied to loan size.
This is the mechanism behind most DSCR loans on Airbnb and Vrbo properties, and it decides how much leverage an investor gets.
The lender still underwrites the property’s rent and the guarantor’s credit — the LLC changes who holds title, not how the loan qualifies.