Lend to Live: Earn Hassle-Free Passive Income in Real Estate with Private Money Lending

Want to invest in real estate without the hassle? Learn how to create financial freedom and passive income in real estate as a private money lender.

Actively investing in real estate can sometimes seem impossible. Not everyone can spend all hours of the day dashing off to talk to motivated sellers, managing fix-and-flips, or screening tenants for rental properties. Instead, you can choose a different path by "being the bank" for other active real estate investors--a strategy that works with any lifestyle, builds toward financial goals, and gives you time back in your day.

What used to be a trade secret for corporate lenders is now available to the average person, and Lend to Live makes the private lending path actionable and accessible for everyone. With more than two decades of experience in the mortgage lending space and real estate investing, Alex Breshears and Beth Johnson show you how to invest in real estate from anywhere in the world--all you need is an internet connection and a cell phone.

Inside, you will learn:

• Why private money lending has become a popular alternative investment strategy to create passive income


• How to establish baseline lending criteria to match your investment goals and risk tolerance


• Steps to take to secure your investments using the C.P.R. private lending method


• How to build a private lending virtual team to provide end-to-end support


• Key pieces of information to collect and the process of underwriting a loan opportunity


• The risks and rewards of private lending as a passive real estate investment


• Precautions and key considerations to help reduce your risk exposure


• Tactics, tools, and tips to ensure your loan is safe from origination to final payoff

Do you want to run a real estate business from a backpack? Lend to live the life of your dreams!

ISBN-13: 9781947200708

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: BiggerPockets Publishing

Publication Date: 08-16-2022

Pages: 230

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Alexandria Breshears owns two private lending companies and is a real estate investor of twenty years. Alongside private money lending, she is also a short-term rental owner, limited partner in syndications, and fund manager. She is passionate about financial education and independence for women, and she started an educational group called Lend2Live: Private Lending Lessons that offers networking opportunities to a collection of investors. Alex is a member of the Education Committee for the American Association of Private Lenders and holds their Certified Fund Manager designation. She is a military spouse, a dog mom of four, horse owner, and was a chemistry professor for ten years with a special focus on pharmacology. Alex currently lives in Chesapeake, Virginia. Beth Pinkley Johnson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Flynn Family Lending—a private lending business based in Washington—and she has transacted on more than $100 million in private loans. A self-described “private money matchmaker,” Beth prides herself in offering passive income opportunities to investors while providing innovative lending products to active real estate investors across the state. She began her own real estate investing career in 2004 with flipping houses and wholesaling before eventually delving into private lending. She has since grown her own portfolio of buy-and-hold multifamily properties and currently owns forty units. In her spare time, you can find Beth enjoying time with her blended family of five, running, traveling, and playing poker. She currently lives in Renton, Washington.

Table of Contents

Authors' Preface 10

Chapter 1 The Who and the How 20

Chapter 2 The Basics 27

Chapter 3 Calculate & Evaluate 38

Chapter 4 Connect 56

Chapter 5 Contact 79

Chapter 6 Compiles Condition 100

Chapter 7 Composes Close 127

Chapter 8 Collect & Convey 142

Chapter 9 Underwriting Deep Dive-Person 154

Chapter 10 Underwriting Deep Dive-Property 173

Chapter 11 Underwriting Deep Dive-Paperwork 192

Chapter 12 Bringing It Full Circle-Lend to Live 209

Acknowledgments 212