Socotra Capital Blog (13)

Fix and Flip Loans

Five Tips for Staging a Comeback after an Unprofitable House Flip

Successful fix-and-flips deliver profits, but even veteran home rehabbers occasionally encounter challenges that result in money-losing deals. A...

Real Estate Investing

Hard Money Lenders Must Be Cautious of Borrowers’ Criminal Activities

If you follow Sacramento news, you likely heard about how more than 500 government agents—representing federal, state, and local government...

Mortgage Pool Funds

Loan Servicing Fees: Why Do Some Lenders Have Them and Others Don’t?

Private money lenders and hard money lenders typically have a choice of two management models: outsourcing the management of the loan servicing, or...

Mortgage Pool Funds

What Does a Real Estate Fund Manager Do?

When we sit down and talk to accredited investors about investing in our hard money loans, we often discuss the value of having a fund manager who...

Hard Money Loans

Finding the Funds to Buy Out the Family Business

Here’s a common scenario: Your father or mother started a business from scratch several decades ago, and turned it into a respectable success. As the...

Fix and Flip Loans

What is the State of the Sacramento Real Estate Market in 2018?

If you were to judge by the amount of new commercial construction going on in Downtown Sacramento in the past few months, you would probably say that...

Trust Deed Investing

First Deed of Trust Investments – Notes & Mortgage Funds

A rule of thumb that most investors are taught—or learn the hard way—is to stick with what you know. This rule is why very few people readily invest...