Anyone know if its possible to lever up and buy secured note? ~$3mm target

I want to buy $3-4MM worth of real estate debt. I only have $500k-$1MM. Who should I talk to that will lend the difference backed by my capital, if that makes sense. spec finance outfit? commercial bank? Any idea what **terms **I could expect?

Plan is the following: 1) Borrow $2.75MM, + my $750k gets me to $3.5MM, 2) Invest $3.5MM into a private real estate company which has $3.5MM of mortgage debt. They will pay off their current mortgage (7-8% debt rate), and in return owe a secured note to me, yielding TBD. Might do convertible debt, or something different. 3) ???? 4) Profit.

I'd appreciate anyone's insight if you're familiar with this type of set up.

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Some commercial banks will do that, but I suspect it would be in the 50% to 60% (maybe 65) LTC/LTV range, so you'd need more equity to finance $3.5 MM. To find those banks, you will probably need to approach many and I would go local to the RE or local to where you live.

There are non-bank lenders that may do it as well, but I suspect you're looking at that 7-8% interest (something fairly high).

Edit: Is this commercial RE debt or residential debt you are looking to buy?

 

appreciate the response. thanks!

edit: LTC = Loan to capital?

In the case of LTV, there is up to $10MM in real estate that could be allocated as collateral on this note.

Let's say that the $3.5MM note has $7MM on real estate pledged as collateral...if this was the case would a lender accept the deal (low LTC, but high LTV).

2nd edit: this is multi-family, houses and smaller apartment buildings.

Basically the operating entity isn't able to change their mortgage and theyre stuck paying 7-8%. hence thinking of paying back the mortgage and setting up a new debt via the secured note instead.

 

You could use a warehouse line of credit to fund the $3mm portion of the loan. Then you bifurcate the note, sell off the A note on the secondary market to pay off the warehouse loan and keep the higher yielding B note for yourself. You'll have to pay a broker fee to sell the A note and the legal fees would be high as well. probably not worth it with this small of a loan

 

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