Reserves And Leverage On A $6M Bank Statement Loan
Leverage steps down in bands as the loan gets bigger, not on a smooth curve.
Leverage steps down in bands as the loan gets bigger, not on a smooth curve.
Asset depletion skips income entirely and converts a balance sheet into a monthly qualifying number.
The math still runs on bank deposits — but the review gets slower, deeper, and more manual than a $1 million file ever sees.
Plan to occupy the place yourself, and you land in consumer-purpose financing that qualifies on your bank deposits or assets.
Most business owners shopping a mountain house or a coastal condo assume this is a financing preference. It isn’t.
On agency-backed conventional loans, gift funds usually can’t touch an investment property at all.
Neither option is better in the abstract. They solve different problems.
The federal conforming loan limit — the “ceiling” — is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchasing rule, not a legal wall on business-purpose DSCR lending.
Get the occupancy classification right before assembling anything else.
The trustee doesn’t hand over the full trust agreement — a short certificate of trust does the job.
Loan sizes on this ladder run from $150,000 up to $10,000,000, with leverage stepping down as the balance climbs.
Loan sizes across the wholesale network run from $150,000 to $10,000,000 on the portfolio program, with short-term-rental files capped at $2,000,000.
Family office wealth doesn’t usually show up on a personal tax return the way a mortgage underwriter expects.
Credit floors rise at the top of the ladder too, and short-term rental income gets qualified differently than a signed lease.
Loan sizes above $2 million usually mean two appraisals, and first-time investors should expect twelve months of reserves instead of six.