People have asked me recently if I think they should start a Hard Money Lending Business which inspired me to put my response into writing.
Here is a summary of my thoughts:
• We expect to earn a a total of 16-18% on the capital we raise. We pay our investors 10%, so the spread we earn is 6-8%. If we have $8MM raised our revenue would approx. $560k.
• Our OpEx ratio is about 35% so our net income from that $560k would be about $364k.
• Our main expense is Payroll. We currently have 3 Loan Officers who handles all borrower communication and Underwriting. We also have a transaction coordinator who closes the loan with the title company and handles all administrative work.
• The biggest bottleneck we have currently is our access to capital. There still seems to be a strong demand for hard money loans. We have more deals than dollars at the moment.
• The biggest time suck of this business is the Underwriting, Operations, and Servicing.
• You can outsource most of the servicing and some of the operations but I think Underwriting is difficult to outsource. It is important to truly understand the quality of your loans.
In summary, if you are willing to commit the time and effort to build a machine that can raise capital, service the loans, and properly underwrite the loans than I think this a great business.
Another question worth asking yourself is, do you want this to be a side gig that makes a few $100k a year or do you want to scale this to be a larger business. Because, that will greatly impact how you structure the business on the front end.
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