Realty411 Magazine Featuring Lee Arnold from Cogo Capital | Page 22
You Can Keep Your Skin at
Cogo Capital
Lee Has Lofty Goals for
His Clients
Lee encourages all his clients to
begin building their wealth and
real estate portfolio with
wholesales and fixandflip
projects before they venture into
the realm of rentals. Why?
Because when buying rentals too
early, they won’t have the bankroll
to weather any of the potential
challenges common to rentals. One
AC unit blown, one roof lost in a
storm, one nonperforming tenant
or drawn out eviction, and you can
end up in foreclosure yourself.
Instead, Lee teaches his clients
to take a very different and
intentional approach to real estate
investing. He has two stated goals
for them:
One of the big things that
separates Cogo Capital from the
rest of the pack is its favorable
terms on funding.
Historically, most private
money lenders demand more ‘skin
in the game’ from borrowers. Lee
says Cogo would rather you keep
more money in your pocket so that
you can go out and do more deals.
Cogo loans up to 90% LTV and
100% financing for rehab and
repair costs. So, as a flipper, you
just need 10% of the purchase
price down, your closing costs,
and enough cash to get you
through the first renovation
milestone.
For a quick way to estimate
how much you should really be
paying for a property, how much
you should be budgeting in rehab,
and what you can expect to borrow
or pay out of pocket,
CogoCapital.com offers a simple,
easytouse tool. It will take your
1. Get up to $250k liquid cash in
the bank as fast as possible with
flips or wholesaling
2. Then get to $1M in net worth to
become accredited investors. At
this point they can qualify to
participate in more exclusive
investments like one of the
Secured Investment High Yield
Funds, which historically pays
out 12% returns over the last
five years straight.
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ARV and the level of rehab
needed (light, medium or
heavy) and base it on the living
square footage of the home.
This tool will then give you
your MAO (Maximum
Allowable Offer) and a clear
insight on how to plan your
investment.
T here are three other factors
impacting rate and terms:
1. Credit
2. Experience
3. Cash in bank
Although Cogo does look at
credit, they love helping new
investors and accept borrowers
with bad credit and inexperience.
That being said, if you come to
the table with good credit and
experience, you do get a bump
up in terms. Average funding
time is just 72 hours,
depending on the project and
how quickly you provide the
needed details on the deal.