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Increase Value And Sell Quicker By Staging Your Property
When getting your property ready for sale, every detail counts. Whether you’ve owned and lived in your property for a lifetime, or just recently purchased it as a fix and flip project, it’s going to need a little sprucing up before being put on the market. First...
10 Pro Tips For Hiring A Contractor (Infographic)
Whether you're looking to completely renovate a home or just do some minor updates, choosing a contractor can be one of the trickiest parts of any project! Follow these tips to select the best contractor for the job. 1. Know Where To Look Use your real estate...
How to Find Reputable Hard Money Lenders
You’re finally ready to purchase that fix and flip property, now all you need is the funding! Your first choice? A hard money lender. The hard money lending industry has been around for centuries in one form or another, but is as popular as ever due to its promise of...
Rehab Your Bottom Line: Avoid These Common Fix & Flip Mistakes
Fix and flips are not always as glamorous as what you see on TV, they are hard work and can be extremely stressful. Since most fix and flip investments are financed by a hard money lender, they are usually based on a twelve-month timeline. A year can go by rather...
How The 2016 Election Affects Real Estate Investors
Uncertainty brought on by presidential elections can affect national investment economics significantly. National economic policy will affect local real estate markets frequently with a lag but also in diverse ways dependent upon local conditions. Now that we have a...
The Hard Money Lender Checklist and Guide
How to know if you are working with a reputable hard money lender. For real estate investors searching the internet for hard money lenders to fund their deals, it is often difficult to separate the reputable private lenders from the ones with questionable...
We’ve Lowered Our Rates…A Lot
Quick-Close, Reliable Hard Money Now Starts As Low As 9%. Asset Based Lending has announced a significant reduction in annual interest rates for real estate investors. The new loan programs, effective immediately, allow qualified real estate investors to borrow...
ABL Launches Wholesale Marketplace For Investment Properties
Meet the new online marketplace for real estate investors. Real estate investors can now spend more time managing their projects and less time searching for their next property, thanks to Asset Based Lending’s new digital marketplace. That's All I Needed To Hear. Take...
Why Real Estate Investors Are The Ultimate Entrepreneurs
Small business owners and entrepreneurs have long been revered for their tenacity and willingness to take risks. Perhaps not so coincidentally, these same characteristics that define successful small business owners and startup entrepreneurs also describe successful...
Build A Strong Foundation: 5 Tips For Selecting A Contractor For Your Next Fix And Flip
Are you wondering how to select and choose a general contractor? Hundreds of future and current real estate investors call our office each month to discuss a potential opportunity to work together. While it’s true that every deal is different - there are some...
What Is The Loan Process With A Hard Money Loan?
By now you understand the concept of a hard money loan, its advantages, and the hard money lender’s ability to issue you a proof of funds letter so you can act quickly. Since you have accepted an offer and done all of your due-diligence on the property, it is...
Invest Smarter With ABL’s Fix And Flip Deal Estimator
Meet the hard money loan deal estimator for fix and flip investors. For experienced and beginner investors alike, quickly vetting the potential profitability of a new fix and flip investment is an essential skill to have. Unfortunately, it can be hard to keep track of...
What If I Need To Have the Money Before I Buy the Property?
In the fix and flip business, it is very common to come into contact with deals that have been priced at a deep discount because the owner is in a distressed situation. Sellers may be going through a divorce, financial issues, estate issues or need to relocate by a...
The Ultimate List Of Hard Money Lending Terms To Know
Getting involved in real estate investing can present a potential investor with a whole new vocabulary that is rarely seen in everyday life. We want to make sure you’re completely comfortable with every part of the investing process, so we’ve compiled a list of terms...
Qualifying For A Hard Money Loan
You’ve found the perfect house to buy and flip. You’ve done your due-diligence, made your offer and got the property at a great price as long as you pay “cash” and close quickly, but you don’t quite have enough money on hand—now what? Hard money loans help flippers in...
Selecting Your Fix & Flip Property
In fixing and flipping real estate, the most important part of the process is selecting the property to purchase and buying it at the right price. There is an old adage real estate investors often say, “You make money when you buy, not when you sell.” What this means...
Flip, Don’t Flop. 4 Tips For Finding A Profitable Investment Property.
Getting involved in real estate investing is not always a walk in the park. Not every property is going to become a gold mine just from applying a fresh coat of paint. Keep these 4 tips in mind before selecting your next investment property. Manage Your Expectations...
Interview With Paul Ullman On The Best Ever Real Estate Advice Podcast
The best real estate investing advice ever. ABL's Managing Partner, Paul Ullman, recently sat down with Joe Fairless of "The Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever Show" podcast to discuss what makes a successful real estate investor, why all hard money lenders are...
Infographic: 4 Profit Killing Mistakes Made By New House Flippers
Benefit from the mistakes of other first time home flippers. No one is perfect. When it comes to real estate investing, even the savviest investors make mistakes their first time around. While we do our best to guide new investors through the process, there are still...
House Flipping Statistics All Real Estate Investors Should Know
For real estate investors involved in flipping properties, having data from a house flipping report to support investment decisions allows for smarter and more profitable strategies. The 2015 US Home Flipping Report compiled by RealtyTrac provides detailed information...
Bloomfield New Jersey Fix And Flip Case Study
We always love to see when one of our fix and flip borrowers turns an investment opportunity into a gorgeous (and profitable) dream home. When Asset Based Lending's hard money borrowers got their hands on this fixer upper in Bloomfield New Jersey, they knew they had...
ABL Posts Record Month In March
$11.75 Million In Hard Money Loans Funded! 2016 is off to a strong start for the Asset Based Lending team, posting several strong months and even breaking the company's record in March. Last month, ABL funded a record 33 real estate investment projects, distributing...
Fix & Flip Before & After In New Jersey
Our New Jersey fix and flip borrowers do some pretty amazing work. The real estate investors that borrow from Asset Based Lending do some pretty incredible work. This video showcases the before and after images of a house flip that took place in Rutherford New Jersey....
Making Hard Money Work For Investors
Written by Asset Based Lending's Managing Partner Paul Ullman, this article previously appeared in the Scotsman Guide . Private lenders offer rapid solutions to residential funding questions Private lenders, frequently known as hard-money lenders, have become a...
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