Note Buyer Interview With Eddie Speed Founder of Note School

Join us as we sit down with Eddie Speed, founder of Note School and author of Streetwise Seller Financing, for this month’s Note Buyer Interview.

Eddie Speed of Colonial Funding Group has been buying and selling notes for over 30 years and has transacted more than 30,000 deals.

To know Eddie is to know a few of his “Eddie-isms”.

I still remember hearing one of his trademark sayings when first introduced back in the late 1980′s.  You see I was helping place funds for a large institutional investor on the West Coast and we’d just expanded into buying Notes in Texas. Unfamiliar with regional differences, our underwriters and legal team were requiring something unreasonable to get a deal funded. Read more

Selling Mortgage Notes – Mortgage Donation Or Write Off?

Someone wants to sell their mortgage note but they haven’t received payments for a year, are in second position, or facing foreclosure. They need help but what can be done?

Here is an option for non performing mortgage notes you might not have heard about…donating to charity.  Our guest author works with a non profit organization with a unique solution to defaulted notes.

(Editor’s Note: This article is not intended as legal or tax advice.  Please seek the assistance of a competent attorney and/or accountant for legal or tax advice.)

Selling Mortgage Notes – Is a Mortgage Donation Better Than a Write Off?

By Dr. Ken Rich

What do you do with a mortgage, promissory note or deed of trust when the debtor stops paying?

After the probabilities of payment in full and resell at a discount are exhausted – is it worthless? What if the property is worth less than the 1st mortgage? What if you’ve heard that the bank is foreclosing on their 1st? What’s going to happen to you?

There are still three options available to debt instrument holders: Read more

Non-Performing Real Estate Notes: Trash or Treasure?

A long, long time ago in a kingdom far, far away lived an efficiently-functioning secondary market.

Performing real estate notes were bought and sold, commissions were made, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men made a great living and even Read more