Hard Money Lender Requirements
Credit score plays a role, but a soft score rarely kills a deal the way a low appraisal or a shaky exit plan will.
Credit score plays a role, but a soft score rarely kills a deal the way a low appraisal or a shaky exit plan will.
A shorter history — 12 to 24 months — can work if you’re doing the same job you did as a W-2 employee.
The lender still has to verify stable, repeatable income; the friction is entirely about documentation, not eligibility.
Get the fork wrong at the start and every number after it — leverage, documentation, timeline expectations — comes out wrong too.
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– Closed-End Home Equity Loan: A lump-sum loan secured by home equity, repaid on a fixed schedule with no ability to redraw funds once it closes.
– Bank statement loan: a loan or credit line qualified using deposit history from bank statements instead of W-2s or tax returns.
The friction isn’t eligibility; it’s paperwork and how a lender chooses to read it.
It lets an investor pull equity out without refinancing, or disturbing, the first mortgage at all.
The specifics depend on your equity, your credit, and which lender’s guidelines fit the file. That’s the short version.
– Underwriting still runs on the borrower’s personal credit, income, and DTI — not the property’s rent, which is the opposite of how a DSCR loan qualifies.
For a self-employed real estate investor, that third category is usually the one that actually gets a deal closed.
A lender may restrict how a business-purpose DSCR loan’s proceeds get used, but that’s a use-of-funds category, not a reinvestment order.
Can You Get A Mortgage With 1099 Income — Yes. You qualify on documented income, just not the tax-return version.
– Cash-out leverage tops out around 75% LTV across most of the network, regardless of how much higher a rate-and-term or purchase transaction might go.