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Hard Money Lending · Brevard County

Harbor Bridge Lending

Marcus Ellery · Owner, lending since 2004 · Fictional demonstration

Investment property only. Not for a home you will live in.

Marcus Ellery of Harbor Bridge Lending

The property is what the loan is decided on, not your income.

Lends to people buying property to repair, rent or resell. The loan is secured on the property, so what settles it is the building and what it is worth once the work is finished.

Who runs it

The owner has been lending against Florida property for more than twenty years and has run this business since founding it.

The business writes its own loans rather than passing a file to somebody else, so the person who answers the telephone is the person who decides.

What they do

  • 01
    Purchase loans

    For buying an investment property that a bank will not move fast enough on.

  • 02
    Repair loans

    The cost of the work funded alongside the purchase rather than found afterwards.

  • 03
    Bridge loans

    Short term money while a sale completes or longer financing is arranged.

  • 04
    Loans to entities

    Written to a company or a land trust rather than to a person.

  • 05
    Refinance

    Replacing short term money once the work on a property is finished.

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Who it does not suit

It does not suit a house you will live in, a first time buyer looking for an ordinary mortgage, or long term financing at a bank's cost.

Track record

2004
Lending since
900+
Loans closed
Brevard
County served

How a loan comes together

  • 1
    The property is looked at as finished

    Not what it is worth today. What it is worth once the work is done. Everything else is measured off that figure.

  • 2
    The loan is sized off that figure

    A share of it, not all of it. What sits above that share comes from you.

  • 3
    Your money goes in

    Closing costs sit on top of what you put down, not inside it.

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  • 4
    The file is checked

    Credit, the plan for the work, and how the loan gets paid off at the end of it.

  • 5
    Repair money is scheduled

    Released in stages against work actually finished, not handed over at the closing table.

  • 6
    It closes

    Title, insurance and loan documents, the same as any other closing.

Reach them

Telephone
(321) 555-XXXX
Lends in
Florida

marcus@harborbridgelending.example
harborbridgelending.example

Who it suits

This suits people buying to repair and resell, and people buying to rent. It suits a purchase made through a company or a land trust, and one that has to close faster than a bank will move. It suits a property a bank will not lend on in the condition it is in.

What a loan would cost, and the terms on it, are theirs to give you on the property you are actually looking at.

Call (321) 555-XXXX