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Episode 126 · November 22, 2024 · Real Estate Notes Show with Dave Putz & Nathan Turner

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On the Real Estate Notes Show, Dave Putz and Nathan Turner discuss with Dan from Call The Underwriter how proper underwriting and compliance documentation makes seller finance notes valuable and defensible. The key is validating borrower ability to repay, following Dodd-Frank consumer protection rules, and maintaining documentation that protects you in foreclosure and makes notes easier to sell.

Why is proper underwriting important when creating seller finance notes?

Proper underwriting protects you legally by demonstrating the borrower has ability to repay. Without documentation, borrowers can challenge foreclosures in court claiming they never had ability to pay, potentially causing you to lose the case and lien. Documentation of income verification, credit analysis, and debt-to-income ratios provides evidence you followed Dodd-Frank rules.

What is the three per year rule for seller finance origination?

As an individual or entity, you can originate three seller finance loans per year without getting an RMLO license, but only for owner-occupied properties. You still must complete underwriting to validate borrower ability to repay and send loan estimates and closing disclosures on the proper timeline.

How do you verify borrower income for seller finance loans?

For W2 employees, look at two recent pay stubs and a W2, plus possibly tax returns. For self-employed borrowers, examine bank statements or tax returns. Cash income that isn't reported on taxes cannot be documented, making it difficult to prove ability to repay.

Key takeaways

  • Proper underwriting and compliance documentation make seller finance notes valuable and defensible in foreclosure, protecting you legally and making notes easier to sell
  • You can originate up to three owner-occupied seller finance loans per year without an RMLO license, but must still complete underwriting and send loan estimates seven days and closing disclosures three days before closing
  • Dodd-Frank doesn't set hard DTI limits; you establish your own standards consistently and adjust if you see high foreclosure rates, typically using 43-50% as a baseline
  • Judges don't distinguish between original lenders and note buyers; purchasing an underwritten note protects you in foreclosure, while buying ununderwritten notes risks having foreclosures dismissed and liens removed
  • Proper underwriting applies only to owner-occupied properties; investor loans have different rules but still benefit from borrower screening and income verification for rental properties
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Frequently asked questions

Can I originate seller finance notes without an RMLO license?
Yes, you can originate up to three owner-occupied seller finance loans per year without licensing. However, you must still complete proper underwriting to validate ability to repay and follow Dodd-Frank consumer protection requirements like sending loan estimates and closing disclosures.

What makes a seller finance note valuable when selling it?
A seller finance note is valuable when it has proper underwriting documentation showing the borrower has ability to repay, income verification, credit analysis, loan estimates, and closing disclosures proving Dodd-Frank compliance. This makes it easier to sell and commands a better price because buyers have confidence in the loan quality.

What happens if I buy a non-compliant seller finance note?
If you foreclose and the borrower challenges the loan citing non-compliance, the judge may dismiss your foreclosure entirely and remove your lien, even if you weren't the originator. Judges prioritize borrower protections from the financial crisis, not the speculator who bought the note later.

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on that they consider you a actually word like habitual loan originator but you still have to follow you still have to validate that the borrower has the ability to repay the loan that you're sending out loan estimates and closing disclosures on the appropriate timeline so the consumer has the ability to review all the documents beforehand and so what we help Originators with is the um all of that consumer protection piece and and what they're really and what they're getting out of that are are two main things one of them is if you're originating a loan well you want to make sure you have a good borrower so if you're going to hold a loan like I want to make sure I have a good borrower that they have the ability to pay I'm not going to have to wheel around and forclosed I want to be able to rely on that cash flow and then even if I plan on selling the loan or I sell the loan at a future date I've now got this whole package that I can give to the buyer because like you guys were just commenting on earlier right when you're buying seller finance paper you kind of want to know has this been underwritten is this compliant like is this going to cause me an issue down the road and then the big one on the compliance piece the the nightmare scenario you need to avoid is you create a new note the borrower defaults maybe you know early on espe especially with no significant change they didn't you know have a medical issue or a job loss or something like that so they default you start foreclosure and the borrower shows up in court and goes hey uh I never had the ability to pay this I didn't know what I was doing Dave here was a a predatory lender he took advantage of me yeah and then the judge says oh well did you validate they have the ability to repay h no did you send them all the disclosures no you you could get into dark territory right but if you've got that underwriting package you go no we followed all the rules we did all the stuff here's everything we had well then you know then you're going to be able to foreclose just to get clarity right this is the number three is floating around like crazy can you clarify what the three a year is referring to yeah so so as an individual or or or an entity you can originate three seller finance loans per year without having to get licensed do you have to do the underwriting as well well yeah you still need to do the underwriting yeah which I mean if you're doing a oneoff right I mean yeah you could go figure out the underwriting but I I can tell you it it it takes a little bit to figure out to make sure right like like all these laws are not always as clear as you would like that's why it took me like months to get these fingered out and I've talked to a number of attorneys it's funny like I've had scenarios where I've talked to two different attorneys that would give me two different opinions on how to do something and I had a a really great I had a fantastic long conversation with the gentleman who actually helped create a lot of the state specific rules here in Colorado okay and as I was going through everything with him because I was asking him too like yeah is it okay to act as an agent right on behalf of the seller and he said yeah no problem and in the midst of the conversations at one point I told him like yeah I wanna I want to make sure whatever we do we're not operating in any gray zones right it's all black and white and he laughed at me and he was like oh yeah he like I I don't care what you're I don't care how mainstream or vanilla an orig an origination you're doing he's like there will just be gray areas it's the way the laws are written so he's like if you're not okay with that like take your ball and go home like it's just kind of the way it is so so that's when you know especially if if they're like a waitress or or something like that and they get paid in tips like how do you how do you what counts what doesn't count how do you verify that yeah so if they're um if they're a W2 employee you're usually looking at the two most recent pay stubs and a W2 uh maybe tax returns okay if they're self-employed you're generally looking at bank statements or tax returns tax returns tend to understand because you've got deductions yeah and there so there's some different ways to do it where people get kind of hosed like there are some people who do everything in cash and it's kind of like under the table or it's tips that and and that's tough like like if it's like cash income or stuff you're not paying taxes on then you can't really document that you know and that's tough so like you as the lender you wouldn't be able to say hey I've documented their ability to repay so that that's one of the the downsides of earning money that way we had a question from Candace uh on Facebook can you clarify if the three per year limit is only for owner occupy buyer yeah my understanding is it's it's owner occupied so if it's not like let's say you're making a loan to somebody and they're going to have it as a rental the different set of rules all the Dodd Frank stuff doesn't apply where it gets a little squishy or gray is if you're talking about like land or what if it's land they could build on it or it's land they plan on eventually doing something that that's one area where where I've heard um differing opinions on although the other week actually before n Expo was talking to Eddie speed and uh he was saying yeah like you need to follow the rules on those if they plan to occupy and I trust his opion yeah a lot but but there are some cases where it's a little bit unclear but I think even if it's an 57% debt to income which to me as a lender is pretty high yeah like and if I was like buying my own residents I wouldn't feel comfortable going to 57% you know like a lot of people want to be down in the 42 43 range or lower I mean a lot of it's what you know you're comfortable as as the lender what one of the things I've got on my list of things to do so historically call the underwriters giving people kind of like a thumbs up thumbs down is this okay this is not okay but I'm going to start to at some point next year I'll start to give them more of a chart where they can see these parameters like where exactly does the debt to income stand uh where's the credit you know all that information is in the underwriting package today but I was going to make it a little more clear like yeah you're you're green and then here's where you fall on the range of parameters well that's cool then you can yeah start to get creative and say okay well what if we adjusted this or we adjusted that and you can kind of work out some of the parameters and see what's gonna help happen that's cool exactly and and one of the things people need to realize too and the other thing I'll call out that's like important when you're finding a borrower is you like so let's say you go out you you find a borrower they get a contract in place we start the underwriting and then you find out what you've got later right and so it really behooves lenders to have a conversation with the borrower up front and I've got like a little cheat sheet on on the call the underwriter website that I condensed to get an idea that where you're going to land because what I've seen happened a number of times already just in the last couple months is somebody goes out they find a borrower they agree to terms they put a purchase contract in place start doing the underwriting it takes a little while to get the B Wars info you get through it and you get all the way to the end and you're like oh this has some problems or oh this is think that's going to be easier um and I'll just rinse and repeat like attorney general take my money take down payments over and over again take 20% yeah look up was it the I think it was called was it Colony Ridge okay outside of Houston I think there was a a company that the Texas Attorney General just went after they had a 12% foreclosure rate and so right now in the country I think I forget what the the publication said I think the the Foreclosure rate is like0 two or three or something but basically like they had a foreclosure rate that was like 50x wow the standard foreclosure rate yeah um and they went after him and and you know I understand what people are thinking when they say oh I'll just get a big down payment and I'll be covered but you know the the reality is borrowers can fight foreclosures and if you didn't follow the rules and they get an attorney like they could really fight you they can file bankruptcy and drag it out um and God knows what shape the property will be in um when you get it back like you guys I've done a lot of non-performers and I've had some horror shows that you get back so like even if you can quote even if it is a quote unquote like non-judicial foreclosure or a for fiture on a land contract it's not necessarily any picnic so I don't know that it's really like in anybody's best interest to do that and it's it's flat out like considered predatory you know in the eyes of attorney generals so it just makes everybody's life that much more difficult yeah I don't think it's in anybody's interest yeah how do you verify income because that's one that comes up often is uh you know we've got to make sure that we're making sure they have the ility toay what about somebody who has um what month that person and afford is can we provide you documentation and go hey we're looking to do this I want to see if it's you know 400 a month or 500 a month can you determine what the top dollar per month that person can afford yeah you could back into that I haven't actually done one specifically like that yet but you could take the application and the income information from the borrower you know and and like look at their total monthly income and then say okay I'm going to be comfortable with a debt to income ratio of X and then back in to what they would be able to afford I wouldn't necessarily want to just take it to the max unless maybe you were talking about like a non-performer where it's like okay we're going to do a trial payment plan and they're going to like catch up for a little bit and then and then it's going to drop down um but yeah you you could definitely you know kind of back into to what somebody could pay and that's a good thing but we're doing that right now we're looking with a borrower that owes a bunch of money to us we're saying listen Maybe we make it at 12% but maybe we make it at 20 a year or we do a 25y year reduce that term to make it more attractive to US versus make it a 30-year if they're able to afford it let's make it happen right I think for me that makes sense um what's the rule of thumb for DTI debt to income in your world in the you know creation time so so so one of the really interesting things about the Dodd Frank rules is they don't give you hard numbers yeah this is one of those gry zones right so what you're supposed to do and this is what the guy that created the Colorado rules told me as a lender you create your set of Standards you stick to those consistently and you document it and if you start to see a high foreclosure rate you adjust them but that's kind of how it goes so a lot of times we use the um some of the standards from the government programs and so a lot of times we'll use you're doing a one-off deal or even you know a handful of them it's really challenging to tease through and validate like okay what exactly am I supposed to do here yeah so what would you say the biggest factor to prove the Billy repay is you know we've taught to many people and some people say a checkbook and 30 Grand in the bank is proof enough no I mean you need it's not just one thing I mean to if you had to like really distill it down down it's validating that the borrower has enough income to pay the loan so like what's their debt to income ratio and then what does their credit look like so you know if they've got the income to pay the loan they should be good provided they're not you know led up with other DS I've seen some wild credit reports you know now that I've been pulling these right I mean so you know I I've seen some where the borrower like I had one just yesterday where told the lender I'm like this borrower doesn't make enough to pay this like even if they have no other debts and everything's good it's like they can't afford this and then you see other borrowers where they have plenty of income but they have literally like seven or eight accounts that are in collections and old accounts where the lenders have given up and you know just charge them off and it's like so so I I kind of in my head like like the law talks about do Frank talks about the ability to repay in my mind there's there's the ability to repay and then there's like the willingness to repay the likelihood and you actually and one of the elements is their credit right you do have to consider that now one all two common thing that that I don't think is a great idea is to say okay as long as I get a big down payment I got this big down payment and so even if the borrower defaults I can just foreclose or you know maybe I did a land contract and I invest because actually we underwrite a lot of investor loans I think it still makes sense to understand like like even if like say it's a rental like you can take an income based approach and you can go okay you know this is going to produce enough rental income to pay the loan I think it still makes sense to screen the borrower because you're like is this the kind of guy that pays his bills or are they going to rent skim me you know yeah on there as well or I kind of like the belt and suspenders approach okay this person's going to rent it but if it goes sideways on them and they've got it vacant they've got enough income that they can still pay me either way and it's nice to have because if you go to turn around and sell the loan now you can make it really easy for your buyer you're like here's all the info on this here's all the homework we did yeah you know just go what one of the things that always surprises me in the industry is that it I think it whether you're a buyer or a seller of a note it behooves you to make it as easy as possible for your counterparty don't just give them like half-baked info and go okay go figure it out buy or beware like yeah just do it all for them and say here you go and make it like super easy if you want to do a transaction you know and I think people in the last five years haven't cared about the ability to pay because loans are performing things are working out real well it's when it goes bad is when these things are hugely important go in front of a judge tell him you never did a bill your pay and you want him to give you a a a judgment that is to Grant you the money that's owed to you um any bar will play the fiddle and will get out of it if you don't have it there's so many reasons to get for bar to get out don't give him another one right exactly yeah so so when you guys are getting this done you know could someone present something to you and say listen I'm looking to do a Moc a or any kind of term like that could you provide to A lender what the top dollar per not great Yeah by a little bit and you know then people are like oh do I start over with a new borrower and sometimes people go I'll just kind of roll with it which is not great so I've also been noodling on how to um make it easier for people up front to to kind of vet that stuff so you don't get into this like ugly choice Downstream of taking a non-compliant borrower or you know starting over because that's call the underwriter right like we do the underwriting piece for the seller I can't stop them you know people you know they're they're the seller they're gonna I can make recommendations till I'm blue in the face but people are going to do what they're going to do so I'm trying to think about how I can prevent people from getting painted into that corner so two things I wanted to double back when you said is that you're just makeing recommendations A lender can turn around and go I'm creating a loan anyway right you don't have a authority to stop him from doing it and B is there some paperwork you provide from a note bu point of view saying oh you originated oh you called the underwear to Bill your pay is there an A bill your pay certificate yeah there there there's something we give them now that that I'm going to be changing um one of the things a lot of the buyers want though that we also provide is the loan estimate in the closing disclosure so that shows that you follow the other consumer protection rules and disclosed everything properly on the timeline so like if you're selling to First National Acceptance in particular right so like if they're willing to buy stuff generally they pay top dollar what what one of the things they're really looking for are those disclosures so those are like super important to have like I said because there are these gry zones like yeah you can create like a certificate or a stamp but in reality because there aren't black and white standards you're saying like me as a lender this is my opinion of it if that makes sense yeah so so the approach what so so first you need to send out the loan estimate okay the loan estimate has to be sent out at least seven business days before you close Saturdays can count not Sundays not holidays and the day you send it out counts okay oril doesn't have to sign it they just have to have been have it available to them okay then there's a closing disclosure that goes out after you finalized everything now it you know because a lot of times like like what happens with me is the lenders come back and they go oh wait a minute the because every fees that the lender charges are a little different so like maybe the fees Chang I've even had people come back and like change terms so I if it's if like the fees have increased or the terms have changed in a certain way you may need to send out a new loan estimate which would restart the 7-Day clock okay assuming you're good to go and like the borrowers confirmed and the lenders confirmed then you can send out the closing disclosure the closing disclosure can't go out on the same day as the loan estimate and the closing disclosure has to be sent out at least three business days before you close so there's the 7-Day clock and the three-day clock it's really not that hard but it's it it ends up getting confusing in the midst of it especially when you have and this istim matters is this only for non for occupied borrowers for owner this only applies to owner occupied because because what I have happen a lot is somebody sends me a file you know on Wednesday and they're like hey can I close on Friday it's like well no not compliantly because even if I instantly wheeled around with a loan estimate uh um you know you wouldn't be able to make the seven business day window now the other thing go ahead so just real quick so Clarity guys when we see owner occupant mean the fact the borrower resides in a home also known as we take is you look at what some of the government programs do and say okay if you fall within these standards that these other programs do well then you know you should be good so let's flip this around just a little bit and I'm gonna ask Dave um so why is it important to you when you're buying a note to see that it's been properly underwritten why do why do you care so for me is the fact that I don't want to be in a foreclosure position where the judge looks at it and says you bought a note that has never been underwritten that the borrower has not been prove the ability to make the payment and you're asking me to get forecloses on a house that they bought that you decide to put a loan on them that they couldn't pay and that deal for me the judge can throw out that whole situation out the window and go you know what you're done and remove the lean what they could remove the lean said listen nope that loan is free and clear you lost all your money yeah even if you were not the one originating it you bought it after the fact yep yep that's because the judge doesn't care the judge cares about the consumer that's in their home you're the the the Speculator that bought the loan they're not super concerned about you this is all coming out of the dot this is all coming out of the financial debacle 0708 when they were giving out loans like Cy and people got four closed on cuz a lot of them couldn't afford the houses I was one of them right couldn't afford my first house but I got a check and said great I'm buying my house yeah and that's what the problem is now is you can't buy that loan and go well it's not my fault their problem no every loan we buy that has a seller finance part of it I'm asking for some kind of documation some kind of proof from an underwriter or an aralo saying yes this person's the ability repay and and maybe I'll bu that note like the the more that this kind of becomes the norm and it is becoming more the norm I believe um the more important it is for Homestead so if this is an investor property or rental property kind of thing it doesn't apply it's only when the borrower is going to live in the home sorry if the buyer is any kind of entity this all goes out the window right yeah yep and then the other thing that happens often with the loan estimate you might have loan conditions so like let's say that the borrower um uh I'm trying to think of a good example but like there are some cases let's say their credit's kind of low like like usually we're looking for a 620 credit score and above you can mate that with the verification of rent so they could you could ask them to produce a letter from their landlord saying hey they've made their last 12 rent payments on time because then you're saying okay their credit's kind of low but we're mitigating that by the fact that okay we validated that this borrower has demonstrated their ability and willingness to make um to make rent to make housing payments or they could have a derogatory account right like they could have a credit card account that's 60 90 days overdue and you could say okay well you need to send in something showing that you've either brought that current or paid it off or you've got like a payment plan in place with the lender so a lot of the issues that cause it to be non-compliant can be cleaned up right and those are the conditions so if you're sending out loan conditions they can go out with the loan estimate and you can also send out the closing disclosure if the conditions aren't all cleared but you need to clear the conditions before you close on the deal now what happens you know so if it's so the way I've been handling it if the loan conditions are fairly straightforward and they're going to be easy I'll just send them out with the loan estimate sometimes I get them where you're like okay this is really nasty like yeah the borrower could technically clean this up but even if they clean up then yeah of course you know you you're never going to be able to touch that the the common like like whenever anybody like discovers the note world and they look at it like where their brain goes instantly and it's where minded is okay where would I go to buy mortgages oh I would go to the bank because that's where they're created it's just common sense yeah but the reality is that's pretty tough and so yeah I think some people promote that because it it's like what con artists do right like they they want to sell somebody a story that that's already in line with kind of what they believe so it's like an easy sell oh yeah of course I would go to the bank it makes sense but the reality is it's not an easy go and and that's okay there's plenty of other Finance paper moving around out there to buy and and a relatively small number of us chasing it so yeah I was one of the I was one of the smart people that went to my local Ranch Bank Nationwide Bank and asked the teller can I buy your notes and they looked me with three eyes right and I I thought I was smart I thought that was a question no one asked them and I sat down with a desk person and said the same question they said we have no clue you're talking about this is 2011 2012 and what you don't realiz the way it structures differently right you're not going to buy directly from Bank of America it's not going to happen right you may buy some Regional M Banks possibly right right and like I said even if Bank of America would sell to you you're going to be getting a really low return because you're bidding against people with ultra low cost of capital so you know it's just it's just a kind of a losing losing game absolutely so what Dan's sharing on this call today guys is that not only does this loan make it valuable for selling it right because to us it becomes either a yes or no why I can't go back in time and go back to reproving the borrower after the notes created I can't buy and fix it I can't do that right it's a yes you see coming down the pipe here economy wise housing wise what are you seeing Oh gosh like historically my economic predictions are are really bad um you know seller finance is already a very large Market I I think it'll grow at some rate um I don't in fact this is another thing I had a conversation with um Jeff Watson about um you know I don't see the scenario where it would really shrink you know I think it's a question of whether it's like a slow growth rate or a high growth rate but as far as the underwriting part since a lot of people creating stuff are not at doing any of stuff they're supposed to be doing like there's a big opportunity in helping people create better paper you know part of the reason they do it is they don't know yeah so yeah so there's plenty to do absolutely we're happy to help you get the word out the better the notes that are created the more we can buy so some people there may say why you guys helping them and the reason is all of us can buy the loans there's plenty of loans buy right um like I said there's the in the chat there's a link a bitly link l so you can fill out the form uh that will be sent to us as well as Dan and Dan's information will be sent to you um Dan also has a great podcast too if you want to check it out um that will also be part of that thing but um and I just realized I got a message from uh one of my assistants that there is a best of notes so make sure you vote for Dan qu the underr oh yeah that's right best of notes uh for that uh choose one of us for the podcast um their friendly competition um but it's awesome right uh Dan we've known for many years now a lot of respect for him um little jealous he to be kicking but with the old silver fance suits but uh real proud he's doing it and uh making Headway with it so and I appreciate you joining us on this Friday afternoon as I L my voice here and uh it's been a pleasure having you any no buyer so I might create one I sell it and then it gets sold again and sold again at any point in that chain somebody's going to bring up oh wait a second was this done with an aralo has this been properly underwritten and it could affect your ability to even sell the note and certainly at a at a reasonable price so it can have all kinds of effects it can be just really a disadvantage to not do the underwriting properly up front so had a question what's the paperwork called when the bill your pay has been done what do you call a certificate well there there isn't like an official one like like with the loan estimate and the and the closing disclosure I call it basically like a statement on the ability to repay it's like a summary of here's what we did's not but but there's not like an industry standard form sure that the government has for that yeah once you do the evaluation they should have in their collateral a doation from you stting that you evaluate it and called it underr determine that this borrower has the biller pay and there's also the 108 transmittal file that has like a summary of the loan and then the under writing notes that's where like more of the detail is underneath it that says here's our monthly income verified this way here's their credit blah blah blah and that kind of stuff that the 108 is probably the closest to like an industry standard sort of form which which we generate as well so Sydney made a comment on Facebook um that would finac the disclosures have to have a three-day spread between the issue date of the disclosures and a date of the data of the loan if the issue is three days they view the loan as non-compliant yeah so so this is it's a little confusing the way that the rules are written so bear with me their 10 derogatory accounts like I wouldn't lend to them so sometimes I'll just send the loan conditions to the lender and be like do you want to proceed with this like how do you want to handle this and I kind of leave it up to them and then there's some like it that that would just be a flat out no like they've had a you know bankruptcy forclosure or if they've been 60 days late on a mortgage payment and the last year it's like nothing you can do to to encour people make sure you know I get the fact you want to sell home I get the fact that you have a piece of property you want to put someone in and make payments so maybe you can sell the note or whatever you're going to do I'm telling you right now spend a few extra days even a month and find the right buyer we're in the spot where we're trying to put put people in homes not putting people in houses right we want a long-term buyer I'm telling you there no buyers performing notes are boring but they're awesome right if I can buy a good solid performing note um we encourage you to do it and me and Nathan talk about all the time on our show we encourage you to create two notes 70210 kind of strategy where you create that first lean 70% of the value of the property take your 10% down plus and then you make the second lean the balance the difference and that allows you a to sell the note right if you chose to sell the first lean have an Infinity return but also put you in a great spot that it will also pay off whatever debt if you have underline debt on the property as well and Dan you don't care how many loans you're creating do you what do you mean if they're going to create two loans 80 20 or 7030 you know kind of note does that bother you oh yeah no oh no at all no a lot of people do that no I mean and that's a pretty good strategy right because then like you were saying dependent on how somebody acquired the property they can often architect the deal so that they own the second free and clear yep but then because and and like a lot of people do or no so it becomes valuable not becoming more valuable it becomes valuable by doing the underwriting process right and on the flip side when you create is it prevents you from being a spot that looks like a predatory lender walking in front of a judge with your attorney or your attorney probably won't even take the case and you're going to be in a really bad spot so I get the fact there's teachers out there to say just do this just do that we're telling you from a legal point of view yeah and if you've talked you know if you don't think that if you weren't the originator but you bought a piece of paper that had problems talk to anybody who bought a harbor land contract in Pennsylvania like one of them that's that's a whole story for another day but yeah yeah that that was not fun I had that too that phone call from the attorney general that was not my most favorite phone calls ever I had many calls with the attorney general and and the problem I had was I was like you know they wanted me to restructure Lear I'm like cool whatever fine but then the borrower wouldn't cooperate and so yeah it became this whole thing yeah I got through it but yeah it wasn't great yeah me too it worked out okay but yeah different call we we'll go over that one so so Dan it you know it's a pleasure always talking with you um and it's amazing what you've done fall under is something that we all appreciate Max and previous owners you taking it over what could we see in the future will call the underrated or for those who are using you currently that may be a change moving forward yeah I mean I think one of the changes you're going to see in the coming months is the underwriting report report you're going to get is going to be a little different it's going to be more simple yet more detailed and usable and there's going to be more of a focus not just on saying hey is this compliant or not but teeing you up to have a more valuable loan that that you can go and sell yeah so and then the other thing you're going to see like an 80101 and so now you've got more equity in the first so like you just made your first more valuable because now the first has 80 or 70% loan of value instead of 80 or 90 yeah um so yeah that that's a pretty good way to do it you know it's it's an interesting field as we learn it right because none of this any of us I'm sure after 2019 cared about this stuff yeah we're buying Bank stuff why is Bank stuff not they're underwritten automatically it's part of their process yeah and and I gotta talk to some older people about this and I don't know what you guys think maybe I'm off in the weeds but like I've got kind of a theory that you know back in the day like in 80s and stuff Eddie speed and all those guys were buying mostly seller finance paper yeah and that maybe the financial crisis where everybody was buying distressed Bank debt that that was kind of the anomaly and and we're just coming back to kind of where things were buying seller finance I don't know I I could be off on that I'm interested I need to I need to talk to some people who have been through all those Cycles to to assess that out the fin has definitely brought a lot of us to the game but I agree with you that we're going back because Bank debt is not easy to buy I know there's been people out there promoting it um I'd like to see if they close on it and if they do close on it I'd love to see their numbers no they won't and I and I can talk about that because like if you're buying Bank debt you're competing with large institutions that have ultra low cost of capital yeah and then that's why people are always like oh my God how did they buy that loan at that small yield well if you're borrowing at 4% and you're buying debt at 6% it's free money it doesn't matter yeah that it's low right but but if you need some return in your self-directed IRA or you you're using outside investor money well is um rmlo Licensing in you know a number of states through the first half of how about automation you know you and I both love automation how about yeah so so I I've I've got my first set of standard operating procedures in place and I'm going to be doing the second set here and then I'm going to be hiring some loan processors to turn the crank because like one of the one of the things people have told me that they've sometimes bumped into with our mlos they tend to be like oneman shops right so like if that person's busy that person's on vacation that person gets sick right um that can be rough and and so where whereas a lot of times these deals are fairly time critical so I don't have yet but you know in the coming months I'll have people like on call during business hours that that can keep pushing these things and working them so that we can do more that that's the other reason like all the origination shops tend to be pretty small because one person can only do so much as I've learned like firsthand with this whole transition process the last couple months like there's only so many hours in the day so you gotta you got to be able to hire people to scale it out but then you got to have the systems in place to be able to do that so I've got a big backlog of things to do for next year absolutely that's exciting though lots of uh lots of cool stuff coming up yeah for sure we did have a question there um I'm going to suggest that you uh sandre to reach out there's a link inside the chat on how to get a hold of Dan I would suggest you doing that um and go for more of a specific questions for that that'd be awesome um yeah and I'll go back to the questions later I don't have Facebook and Linkedin up because I didn't want to like goof up yeah the call so so I have haven't seen the questions but I'll go back and check those later so Nathan you want to finalize our call here yeah looking to that question interesting question that'll be a good one all right I'll be interested to hear kind of the answer that yeah so it seems to me like you're you're barely bullish on uh seller finance being a thing going forward uh what do on and talking for a few minutes no appreciate you guys having me on enjoyed it definitely thank you hang on for a few minutes and uh for everyone else we'll see you soon our next show is going to be in a few weeks we're going to be talking about um oh got on the schule we have uh coming up on uh sourcing deals through list uh SC our pan will be joining yes souring notes so hope all is well guys have a great weekend we'll.

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