Mortgage loans, tanks to the upsurge in the number of alternative lenders, are now available to more homebuyers than ever before. Hundreds of thousands of would-be homeowners who would, in past years, have been turned down for mortgage loans by banks and other traditional lenders are now eligible for home loans, in spite of their spotty credit histories. Alternative lenders have reached out to this neglected market.

Many professional investors are constantly on the lookout for ways to diversify their capital and raise their rates of return, and when the stock market starts to look over bought will pull out some of their money to invest elsewhere. And a good number of them have established private companies to write mortgages for those whose credit records make them high-risk buyers. These buyers, if they default on their mortgage payments, will face the same foreclosure measures from alternative lenders as they would from traditional ones. But they are at least being given an opportunity to become homeowners.

Seller Financed Loans

Another opportunity for those involved in mortgage loans is to buy individual mortgages many homeowners will sell their homes agreeing to finance the buyer, so investors will buy their mortgages to provide them with the cash they need, and will become the recipients of the mortgage payments from the new homeowners.

Investors interested in profiting from seller financed mortgage loans can also locate seller-held notes and approach the holders about selling the notes to mortgage loan investment groups, earning themselves finders’ fees in the process. The amount of their fee will be based both on the size of the mortgage note and the value of the underlying home, and can be anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Getting In On The Opportunity

Finding seller financed mortgage loans therefore can be a very lucrative business. But it is limited to those who can not only locate the notes, but who have access to the investment groups willing to buy them. Not many would-be note sellers really know who these investment groups are, but there is a booming online business among Internet marketers claiming they can, for a fee, tutor wannabe buyers of mortgage loans.

But before you bite, just remember that many people interested in profiting from this aspect of mortgage loans overlook one important fact. Even if they knew where to find the seller-owned mortgages, they are not likely to know how many of those loans are available in a specific area. So paying an Internet marker to share the secrets of how the process works could cost more than the income you might earn from following it.