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Below is the Advice I Gave a Struggling Commercial Mortgage Broker

Here’s my advice:<ol><li><div class="MsoNormal">Stick to small commercial permanent loans.  Do not work on anything larger than $3 million unless you have a special relationship with the borrower (former client).  Small commercial loans are the ones that close and feed your family.  </div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal">New commercial mortgage brokers almost never close large loans.  Why would a filthy rich investor with perfect credit and millions of dollars in equity work with a mortgage broker who is obviously new to the business?  He'll spot the new broker's inexperience in the first few minutes of conversation.  So the large deals that new mortgage brokers get are almost always hopeless.  And even if the perfect, large deal ever did fall in their laps (one chance in a million), most new brokers don't yet have a personal relationship with the top loan officers at the huge banks. These top dogs are very, very, VERY cliquish.  They don't fight hard in Loan Committee for newbies.  So don't waste precious time trying to place large loans ... unless you have 18 small commercial permanent loans in process that will feed your family.  Give me a $300,000 lead over a $30 million lead any day!  Small deals close.  Large deals waste your time.</div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal">Do NOT waste precious time working on construction loans.  The world has more enough homes and commercial buildings right now.  Ninety-nine percent of the time, when a developer approaches a mortgage broker for help placing a construction loan, the developer does not have enough cash into the deal to qualify for a construction loan.  He can't cover 20% of the construction costs.  Do not work on construction loans!  The deals you want are the permanent loans and the bridge loans.</div></li><li>Never waste a minute on international loans.  They never close.  Ever.  Ever!</li><li>Read my blog daily for tips.  <a title="http://www.blog.c-loans.com/" href="http://www.blog.c-loans.com/">http://www.blog.c-loans.com</a>  Go back and read all 100 of the old articles.</li><li>Build a databank of referral sources (commercial brokers, residential mortgage brokers, bankers, property managers, estate planners, etc.) and advertise to them by snail mail or email regularly.  Pepper your newsletters with TONS and TONS and even more TONS of jokes and fun stuff.  Condition your referral sources to look forward to your emails.</li><li>If you’re no good at writing newsletters, subscribe to my email newsletter service.  <a title="http://www.c-loans.com/newsletterservice.html" href="http://www.c-loans.com/newsletterservice.html">http://www.c-loans.com/newsletterservice.html</a></li><li>Learn how to create your loan packages using PDF’s. This saves on shipping and allows you to submit a deal to multiple lenders in seconds.</li><li>Start buying leads from C-Loans.  They’re only around $2 apiece (plus 37.5 bps. on closing).  <a title="http://www.c-loans.com/leads.html" href="http://www.c-loans.com/leads.html">http://www.c-loans.com/leads.html</a></li><li>Get a signed fee agreement on every deal, but don’t ask the borrower to sign it until you’ve run him around for weeks fetching documents.  Wait until the borrower is desperate and hungry before presenting your agreement.</li><li>Don’t waste time working on deals with a low probability of closing.  Instead, use every free minute to meet new bankers and commercial brokers (realtors).  Add them to your email list.</li><li>Realize that your closing rate will never exceed 30%.  This means you need to have 15 to 18 loans in process at all times.  Do you have 18 loans in process right now?  If not, get busy.</li><li>Only work with strong loan officers.  Loan Committee is a process where the decision-maker almost always says, "No", initially.  Then the loan officer has to use logic, fundamentals, oratory skills and strength of will to push the deal through to approval.  If the loan officer at the bank who has your deal sounds and acts like a wimp, ask for the package back and then submit the same deal to a stronger loan officer at the same bank.</li><li>Grasp the concept that commercial lenders make loans for their friends.  Become buddies with the top loan officers at various banks.  They will then fight for your deal in Loan Committee.  This may be my most important tip.</li><li>Learn the business!  If you truly know how to underwrite commercial real estate loans, you won't waste countless hours working on hopeless deals.  Hundreds of graduates of my <a href="http://www.c-loans.com/video.html">commercial mortgage training course</a> now earn more money than the average physician.  You'll learn an entire profession for a lousy $499.  Hellooo?  Is this a trick question?*</li></ol><hr />Need a lender for your commercial deal?  You can submit your commercial real estate loan to to 750 commercial lenders in just four minutes using C-Loans.com.  And C-Loans.com is free.  <a title="Apply to 750 commercial lenders with one easy mini-app." href="http://www.c-loans.com/onlineapp">Click here</a>.<hr />Your comments are invited.<hr />*  I always loved that line.  It comes come from the original Ghostbusters movie, where a demon possesses the body of a young (23 years ago) and beautiful Sigourney Weaver.  Sigourney is laying on the bed seductively, and she asks the whacky Bill Murray, "Do you want this body?"  Bill famously replies, "Is this a trick question?"  :-) 9 application/xml false commercial financing commercial loan advice commercial loan help commercial loans commercial mortgage commercial real estate financing commercial real estate loan commercial real estate loans practice tips for commercial loan brokers C-Loans Commercial Mortgage Lender Databank Free Portal to 750 Commercial Real Estate Lenders http://www.c-loans.com/onlineapp Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 GBlackburne 67.236.137.70 false true false false true 198508 false false true false false false true 78777 blog blogsite/CLoans/web