Fix & Flip and Bridge
Short-term rehab and acquisition capital: draw schedules, ARV limits, exit planning and the arithmetic that decides whether a flip pencils.
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The True Cost of a Flip, Beyond Purchase and Rehab
The spread between ARV and purchase-plus-rehab is not profit. A full cost stack worked end to end, and what a five percent miss actually does to it.
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Exit Strategy Is an Underwriting Question, Not a Slide
Short-term loans are repaid by an event, not by amortization. How a desk tests a sale or a refinance exit, and what evidence makes yours credible.
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Building a Rehab Budget a Lender Will Actually Fund
Two budgets with the same total get opposite answers. The difference is line items, quantities, unit costs and a contingency sized to the building.
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Bridge Loans Explained: When Short-Term Money Is the Right Answer
Bridge capital costs more than a term loan and earns it in narrow, identifiable situations. The dividing line, the carry math, and the terms that matter.
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Draw Schedules: How Rehab Money Actually Gets Released
Rehab funds are held back and reimbursed after work is verified. How a draw runs, what it costs you to float, and how to keep a project from stalling.
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How ARV Is Determined, and Why 75% Decides Your Deal
After-repair value is an appraiser's opinion, not yours. How that opinion is built, why lenders cap proceeds against it, and how to run the math first.
Programs in this area
The financing these articles describe, with the numbers and documentation each one requires.
Price the project against ARV before you commit to the purchase.
No credit pull to start. You will get a straight answer on where the file stands.