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What is a Term Loan for Real Estate Investors?

When building a successful business as a real estate entrepreneur, it’s important to become well versed in the world of private lending and real estate investing. Some of the most common mistakes come from investors not knowing which loan program is right for a potential investment property or the differences between each program.

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There are two types of loan programs; term loans and bridge loans.

The differences between the two are based upon the borrower’s credit score, employment history, length of the loan, and rates. While term loans require more underwriting, they also offer lower risks and less risk, making it

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Unlike a Hard Money Bridge Loan, a Term Loan has much more vigorous financial checks, collateral and a minimum FICO score of 650. a deeply attractive option to borrowers who find the concept but not the details of a hard money loan appealing.

Unlike a Hard Money Bridge Loan, a Term Loan has much more vigorous financial checks, collateral and a minimum FICO credit score of 650. Private Lenders require this because of the requested amount of the loan and the lender wants to prevent the risk of defaulting or the borrower not being able to make their scheduled payments.

The following are examples of term loan programs:

No-Income Verification/ Stated Income Loan A No-Income-Verification loan is a type of loan program that doesn’t require the borrower to provide documentation of income.

Unlike conventional mortgages, a stated income loan is easier to be approved versus a traditional loan, and is a way for self employed borrowers who would not qualify for a traditional financing to achieve their investment dreams. These types of loan programs are for investment properties only and not for primary residences for an owner occupied property.

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NO-DOC Loan The relationship between the investment home buyers and the mortgage lender, is based on the non documented loan agreement that the borrower can afford investment property loan payments and will make them.

Like a no income verification mortgage loan, a NO-DOC loan program has less regulation and higher rates than conventional loans.

Although risky, the flexibility and quick approval process for the borrower makes it an easier decision for many real estate investors.

Soft Money Loan Soft money is defined as a long-term (5/1 ARM, 7/1 ARM, 30 Year Fixed) real estate investment loan program that closes faster (2-3 weeks) than a conventional loan. This type of loan program requires more underwriting than a hard money loan, allowing it to have lower rates and greater security. It is based on both the borrower’s credit score (minimum 650) and the property’s LTV, and is always a term loan rather than a bridge loan. An innovative approach combining the benefits of hard money that have lower risks, higher rates, and a short term loan time-frame - contrastingly, soft money programs fit many borrowers far better due to the program’s lower costs, lower rates, and longer terms.

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Top Agent Brent Ballard serves as the Broker of the Ballard & Ballard Group—which stands in the top 1% of all real estate teams in the Crescenta Valley area—managing a team of twelve agents and serving clients across southern California.

As a fourth-generation real estate professional, Brent Ballard has the experience, market expertise, and in-depth knowledge to serve his clients and help them achieve their goals. Brent’s great-grandfather was one of the original developers of the Los Angeles County area. “Real estate was a natural fit for me,” Brent says. With over twenty years in the industry, Brent has built a stellar reputation and a successful business on the foundation of prioritizing honesty, communication, and customer care.

Brent serves as the Broker of the Ballard & Ballard Group, which stands in the top 1% of all real estate teams in the Crescenta Valley area. Brent manages a team of twelve agents and serves clients across southern California. With extensive experience in residential single-family homes, as well as 8 Copyright Top Agent Magazine

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multi-family properties, Brent is able to offer his clients a versatile skill-set and a thorough understanding of the market. Brent also owns several income-generating properties, which allows him to provide his clients with expert counsel and an owner’s perspective.

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“I love meeting new people and building and sustaining friendships,” Brent says. “Every day is different. I love being challenged and the daily opportunities for growth.

This job always keeps me on my toes.” and level, even when transactions become complex or emotional. No matter what the client is going through, it’s often big, whether they are buying or selling. I am able to be there for them and help take away their stress and worry.”

Brent’s attentiveness extends to how he keeps in touch with clients long after closing. He sends “home-aversary” cards and gifts to 10Copyright Top Agent Magazine

buyers to celebrate the anniversary of their purchase. He also stays in contact through monthly emails and postcards. For every property, Brent implements a comprehensive marketing approach that includes a custom website for the listing with 3D tours and beautiful photography. Leveraging social media and his own professional network, along with print advertising and postcards, Brent provides Top Agent Magazine

every client with broad coverage. His strategy has paid off, as his team averages from fifty to sixty million in sales volume across thirtyfive to forty-five transactions per year.

For Brent, it is not his impressive sales figures that motivate him, but rather the relationships he builds through his business. “I love meeting Top Agent Magazine

new people and building and sustaining friendships,” Brent says. “Every day is different. I love being challenged and the daily opportunities for growth. This job always keeps me on my toes.”

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time through his active involvement in his church. Brent has also coached the middle school basketball team for the past ten years, and he is now the new high school lacrosse coach for a team that includes two of his daughters. When Brent is not busy helping clients or giving back his time, he loves to golf, surf, and spend time with his wife and four kids.

For the future, Brent has exciting plans to continue to grow his business, including expanding into development and property management.

“My son is graduating from college soon, and might come to work for us, so I hope to get a fifth generation going in this business,” Brent says.

“My plans are to continue to expand, adapt, and help our wonderful clients.”

To find out more about Brent Ballard, call (818) 919-0282, email ballardbrent@outlook.com, or visit soldbyballard.com or andersonballard.com www.

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3 Mental Tricks That Will Take Your Business to the Next Level It’s no secret that running a successful business requires careful planning and a tireless work ethic. Beyond those obvious ideals, it also takes the right mindset in order to capitalize on professional opportunity. In the world of real estate and mortgage lending, mental fortitude is a major component to reaching the next Top Agent Magazine

level and achieving longevity in a sector that requires so much self-discipline. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a few key mental tricks you can employ to reinvigorate your working philosophy. Incorporate these techniques into your daily mindfulness routine and your business will surely benefit.

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Visualization helps you work efficiently and keep your cool.

This may sound like one of the oldest tricks in the book, but there’s a reason why Olympic athletes and those serving in first-responder positions use visualization as a time-honored mental technique. Not only does visualizing your daily tasks help you organize your mind, but it amps up your ability to focus on what’s important. Visualization also helps reduce stress in the moment, since you’ve already created a mental expectation of the task ahead. Whether you’re preparing for a negotiation or a pitch to new a client—visualization primes your brain and affords you an extra sense of control as you tackle your day.

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Distill concepts into their simplest terms for ultimate understanding.

As an agent or loan officer, you’re likely juggling numerous clients and commitments on any given day. That’s why it helps to distill your responsibilities in clear, definitive terms. Let’s say you have a meeting set with a client to outline a marketing approach for their property. You may understand the broad strokes, but beforehand, try verbalizing the exact takeaways you’d like to impart to your client.

This may seem obvious, but one of the best ways to clarify your communication and ensure your com-

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plete understanding of a subject is to explain it aloud in its simplest terms. This crystallizes your main point and can come in handy if you drift off-topic or need to double-down on your message.

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Accept that mistakes will be made.

While it’s natural to fear failure, sometimes the dread of making an error can overwhelm your ability to perform. As the saying goes: don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

If you accept in advance that set-backs will occur, challenges will come, and things won’t always go accordingly to plan—you’ll be less confounded when hurdles do arise. What matters is keeping an even keel as you sort through unexpected delays or mishaps. Accepting that mistakes will happen allows you to shift your focus towards a solution or contingency plan. In other words, don’t spend your energy trying to achieve perfection. Aim high and work hard, but be in touch with reality: upsets are bound to occur. Accept this and you’ll be ready when they do.

The path to lasting success is ongoing, and there are bound to be challenges along the way. It takes mental fortitude to make it to the top, so keep these tricks in mind as you continue to grow as a person and a professional. Seeing situations in a new light can make all the difference as you adapt, evolve, and take your business to the next level.

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There Goes the Neighborhood:

How to List High When Neighbors are a Nuisance Troublesome neighbors are a relatively common issue that agents come across. You can control the image of your client’s property and you can control your listing presentation, but you can’t always control what’s happening on your client’s street. How do you diffuse difficult neighbors that could lower your bottom line or embarrass you in front of prospective buyers?

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First of all, it takes tact and a gameplan. With that in mind, let’s consider a few ways you can maintain a listing’s viability and competitive edge—even when bothersome neighbors are involved. Here are a few common neighborly scenarios agents encounter and how to diffuse them to your advantage.

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How do you diffuse difficult neighbors that could lower your bottom line or embarrass you in front of prospective buyers? It takes tact and a gameplan.

as a courtesy introduction to the neighborhood.

While it may seem like needless busy work, it can dramatically improve prospective buyers’ perceptions of the area. Plus, you may positively ingratiate yourself with neighbors in the area and demonstrate your above-and-beyond service to your clientele in the process.

Is the neighbor’s landscaping an eyesore?

Here’s your recourse.

Most towns and cities have established ordinances regarding yard upkeep. If any of the properties adjacent to your listing are wildly overgrown, littered with junk, or otherwise in a state of obvious disrepair—take it up with the city. Rather than get directly involved at first glance, you might loop in city officials whose job it is to monitor clean-up efforts on rundown yards and properties. If this doesn’t work, you may have to take a more hands-on approach.

Start by thinking small and operating from a place of authenticity and neighborly service.

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Are there foreclosed or abandoned homes on your client’s block?

Do your homework.

It may take a little research and digging to figure out the banking entity that owns a foreclosed home, but it’s well worth the effort. Banks are typically required to maintain foreclosed homes on at least a basic level. If you’re worried about

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squatters, an unsightly façade, or general disrepair of a neighboring foreclosed property—go to the source. Sometimes banks take their time in hiring a third party to maintain a foreclosed property, but with some proactive prodding on your part, you may be able to speed the process along and resolve eyesores even before prospective buyers come calling. Remember: the squeaky wheel gets the grease. An improved bottom line will be your reward for those few prodding phone calls and emails.

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that takes their less-than-stellar behavior to their porch, front yard, or sidewalk. While this sensitive issue may seem daunting, there are a few official channels you can utilize to thwart the issue before getting personally involved. If the neighborhood in question is governed by an HOA, you might take it up with them. If the troublesome neighbor is harassing passersby or taking to the sidewalk—in other words, public space—then you may be able to involve local authorities in worst-case scenarios. Of course, it’s always possible to talk to troublesome neighbors faceto-face, but do so with caution and with safety as the priority. Always reason gently and empathetically, utilizing I... phrasing, instead of accusatory You... phrasing. After all, some neighbors are clueless about their impact on the neighborhood and may adjust their behavior after being called out. If the issue persists and no third-party authority can help, then you may have to disclose the neighbor’s issues to prospective buyers, depending on the disclosure laws in your region. While this may seem like a blow, you can at least rest easy knowing you pursued all the potential avenues for resolution available. Likewise, your client will likely appreciate your thorough efforts to resolve the issue.

While troublesome neighborhoods can bring down an optimistic mood when listing a property, sometimes being real estate is all about being resourceful. With diligence, digging, and a little follow-up, you just may be able to resolve some of the issues plaguing your neighborly plot.

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YVONNE & ROBERT CROMER

Husband-and-wife team Yvonne and Robert Cromer began their real estate journey 20 years ago, when Robert decided to get his license and do real estate part-time. “We had a friend who was doing loans and real estate, and he took me under his wing and taught me the ropes,” Robert recalls.

“I started doing so well that I ended up quitting my full-time job and going 100% into real estate.”

Yvonne got her license soon after, working as a loan officer before joining Robert on the real estate side. “I was fully immersed in the mortgage industry, and I still carry that knowledge with me,” Yvonne says. For the past two decades, Robert and Yvonne have excelled at helping their clients achieve their real estate goals.

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comes from repeat and referral clients, a testament to the trust and confidence they inspire, and they also serve many military clients. “Since it’s been 20 years, I’ve even helped kids of my clients with their first purchase,” Yvonne says. Robert adds, “Clients keep coming back because of the service we provide. We always put our clients first in every decision we make.”

The Cromer Team focus their considerable expertise on helping clients come up with solution that is best for them in any real estate situation. “We always help clients look at their long-term goals,” Yvonne explains. “When someone wants to sell, we always ask them first whether they’re sure they don’t want to hold their house as a rental.

If they can build wealth through homeownership and be able to keep that home and buy another one, that’s always where we go first. A lot of our Top Agent Magazine

clients do have multiple properties, and we’re so happy to have helped them figure out the solution to that puzzle.”

When it comes to marketing, The Cromer Team does everything possible to ensure optimum exposure. “The number one thing we do is work with our clients on getting their house picture-perfect, especially in this market,” Yvonne says. The Cromers soft-stage all of their clients’ listings, providing decorative items and prints from their storage unit to help their listings shoot like a model, at no additional charge. The results speak for themselves: in the last 12 months, the average days on market for all of their listings was an astounding 6 days.

Community involvement is important to the Cromers, and they are both deeply involved with the Pacific Southwest Association of Realtors® and the California Association of Realtors®. They do charity work for South Bay Community Services, and get involved however else they can in their community. They are part of the Homes for Heroes program (www.ServingSDHeroes.com), through which they give buyers and sellers in hero occupations (military, law enforcement, firefighters, first responders, medical personnel and educators) a rebate check back after close of escrow.

“It’s our way to say thank you and give back to Heroes that serve our country and/or communities,” Robert says.

Looking to the future, Robert says, “We really just want to keep serving our clients, and maybe build our team a little bit, but we want to keep it small enough that we can be a family and connect with our clients.” Yvonne agrees: “This is what we love to do! We’re known among our peers and in our community, and even if someone is not buying or selling, they’ll give us a call when they have a question about real estate or homeownership. We’re always there to help, and I don’t see that changing.

God willing, we will continue servicing our clients and being there for them for many years to come.”

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To find out more about Yvonne and Robert Cromer, call 619-871-5363, email yvonne.cromer@compass.com or cromerhomes@gmail.com, or visit zillow.com/profile/The%20Cromer www.

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Top Agent Tips and Questions for Choosing Your Listing Agent Now that you’ve decided to sell, it’s time to select the professional to help you market your property. Before meeting with agents, however, consider Top Agent Magazine’s tips for preparing yourself. Frist, ask yourself what kind of relationship you’d like to have with your listing agent. Are you seeking a casual, personable relationship and the latest marketing tools or are you interested in a more formal, traditional relationship and approach to marketing techniques? Next, populate your list of agents by attending open houses and asking for recommendations from recent buyers and sellers.

Finally, schedule your meetings at your home, where you’ll be able to gauge the chemistry between you and each agent.

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Will you please describe your sales experience and local network?

Ask your Top Agent to describe recent listings and sales of homes comparable to your own. Ask about the sellers’ priorities, the original list price, market time and number of offers. Top Agents will also describe how well they are connected with other REALTORS® in the region as well as their contacts with relocation companies, local corporations and chambers of commerce.

Be sure to ask about each agent’s knowledge of how your market has changed over time and what has influenced change.

You’ll learn a lot by listening to agents’ opinions.

How will you market the property? Each

Top Agent has a unique set of online or local marketing tools at his or her disposal. Some use lead-generation applications and nearly ever luxury agent take advantage of video. Even video marketing tools vary from agent-to-agent, however.

You’ll get to decide if you prefer an agent with higher-end video production and 3D Matterport tours or an agent with more intimate techniques featuring walk-and-talk style video tours.

What factors influence your list-price recommendation? Before an-

swering this question, most Top Agents will have several questions for you, including whether you’re more focused on a faster sale or a higher list price.

They’ll also educate you on how best to balance both market time and list price relative to sales histories your area.

Now that you’ve seen the home, what repairs or improvements do you recommend before listing? You’ll learn a lot by listening to agents’

opinions on your home’s sale potential with or without some improvements.

Most Top Agents will also recommend a full professional inspection prior to listing to avoid surprises during buyer inspection.

How will you help with staging? Some Top Agents will pay for part or

all of the staging costs. At a minimum, however, a Top Agent will have a staging professional or two in their partner network. While they’re at it, they may provide referrals for carpet cleaning, painting, gardening and other minor finishing touches.

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What attributes of the property will you want to highlight? Each Top

Agent will have a somewhat different answer to this question, but that’s a good thing! Even if you have your own ideas about your home’s greatest attributes, you’ll glean insight into the current market by considering different agents’ opinions. In learning their views, you may even change your mind about your home’s most marketable features!

What is your approach to Open Houses? How many agent-only Open

Houses will your Top Agent want to host? How many truly Open Houses?

Some Top Agents may even reveal a “swankier” approach to the Open House – such as an evening cocktail party or by-invitation “open” hours to which buyers visit along with the agent representing them.

Who will be our primary point(s) of contact from your office? This

important question will help you understand the scope of your agent’s practice. You’ll get to see if your agent runs a robust team with many hands on deck or if he or she works by close, one-on-one contact with each client.

Either approach is wonderful; you get to decide what suits you.

Now, let’s list!

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STEPHANY POSELEY Determined to exceed expectations, Stephany Poseley has achieved great heights in her career as a real estate broker. She got her start after looking for a new path and wanting to make her own schedule. “I was a stay-at-home mom at the time, after working for many years,” she says. “I thought it was time to go back to work, and I wanted to be in charge of my own destiny.” Passionate about helping others, Stephany felt she would do well in real estate. She took the class, earned her license and hit the ground running. Today she leads her own team serving a wide area from Orange County to Las Vegas.

“My team consists of people who are near and dear to me,” she says. “We’re a very family-oriented group.

We meet at each other’s houses, go to dinner and work closely.” These close relationships mean they efficiently serve their customers, as they share the same core values. “A lot of people want that handson experience, as technology has taken that out of the equation,” Stephany says. “My goal is to keep providing them with one-on-one attention.” This has resulted in their business being mostly referral-based.

your needs and wants and does her best to deliver. Stephany truly cares for her clients, making sure it’s a smooth transaction from beginning to end. I will be using Stephany’s services in the future, I only want the best! Thanks Stephany for everything you do!”

During any free time, Stephany is preparing to launch a nonprofit for special needs children. As the mother of two special needs children, this cause holds an important place in her heart.

Many things are in motion for Stephany’s future, and she can’t wait to see where it all takes her. She just became a licensed loan officer, which will allow her to help her clients with financing. “I also do property management, so I’m involved in a little bit of everything at the moment.” Stephany hopes to continue growing and assisting as many people as possible. “The joy I get when I am able to achieve my clients’ goals, that’s why I do what I do.”

“We answer our phones,” she explains. “We treat every client as if they were a family member or friend.

We want them to feel confident and comfortable, and know that we are doing the right thing.” Rather than focusing on a purchase price or commission, Stephany and her team aim to make the process as stress-free and straightforward as possible. “It doesn’t matter if they are looking for a $200,000 home or selling their $1 million property, we provide the same superior service to everyone.”

After the transaction, clients spread the word about their time with Stephany and her team. One recently said, “Stephany is a wonderful person, she helped me sell my home, from the beginning I felt really comfortable with her. Her knowledge of real estate, how she communicates is very respectful and she listens to Top Agent Magazine

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