REI INK

Increasing Portfolio Value and Reducing Risk

The Need to Perfect Loan Collateral and Document Custody by Debbie Lastoria and Meaghan Hanley Every loan has a value at origination. The loan officer makes their commission, and based on the secondary market, the investor pays for a loan in accordance with the underwriting basis for which it was closed. This value should survive the life of the loan—but we all know it may not. The value may be

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Hindsight is 2020

Looking Back on Last Year’s Top REI Insurance Claims by Shawn Woedl With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we can look back on the year and see what we learned. Last year proved that you cannot prepare for everything, but some of the most common insurance losses that happen across the real estate investment industry, year after year, can be mitigated or avoided completely with some planning and commitment. Let’s

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