The most repeated error that a mortgage note holder makes in my judgment begins when the note holder starts to put the note together. What they do, or should I say what they don’t do is check the possible buyers credit score ahead of signing in the signature box on the real estate note. I could not believe it when I saw this being practiced, now that I have been at this business for years I am still seeing this business of not checking the potential buyers credit score much to often.
What the mortgage note holder does not realize is that checking the buyers credit score would save him/her money both in the present and also later.
You ask how is that? Well let me start by saying that checking the probable buyers credit score will put your mind at ease, just being aware that the probable buyers credit is good and you are pleased that the buyer will be able to pay the debt back to you. I don’t know where this idea of not checking the promising buyers credit report comes from, but I myself have not at any time applied for credit without having someone pull up my credit report.
The other way that checking the buyers credit report benefits you is if later you feel like you would like to sell a Mortgage note, promissory note, contract for deeds, or just about any type of cash flow note and turn it into a cash lump sum. By checking your buyers credit score when you first put together the note, you actually made your note worth more in the future.
Why is this? Well the main reason is that when you have decided that you want to sell a real estate note, the note buyer among other things is going to require the payor’s (i.e. the person making payments to you on your note) credit report information. To the note buyer the stronger the payors credit score is the more the note buyer will be able to offer you when you sell a real estate note.
The payors credit score is going to be one of the major parts that the mortgage note buyer looks at when estimating how much to offer you when you sell your real estate note. The reason this is such a large aspect is that the note buyers perspective is the larger the credit score the less risk there is in buying this note. Now we can see for sure that you can make money in the future by doing a straightforward thing like checking your promising buyers credit score before you signing at the bottom of a note.
Ok, I know what you want the answer to! When we talk about what is an acceptable credit score, when we are talking about promissory notes, mobile home notes, real estate notes, deeds of trust, or cash flow notes of almost any type? Myself I would not accept a payor’s credit score that is less than 565, but this is something that needs to be worked out by both the note holder and the note buyer.
When you sell a real estate note, the higher the score is, the more the note buyer will be able to offer you. Very important: The payor’s credit score is going to make up approx 35 to 40 percent of how the note buyer estimates the value of your note. So if you are putting a new real estate note together always remember to check your buyers credit report for a credit score, as this will benefit you both now and down the road.
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