Comprehensive Guide to Hard Money Loan Investing Part 4: Top 19 Hard Money Loan Funds 2024

We found not just 1 but 19 needles in the haystack (in this difficult to find asset-class). Then we gathered 25+ data points on each one (to let you quickly compare and contrast).

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This is part 4 of a 5 article series:

• Part 1 - What is hard money loan investing?

• Part 2 - How to protect from loss

• Part 3 - The Due Diligence Check List

• Part 4 - Top 19 hard money loan funds

• Part 5 - Postmortem: Money flushed down the drain (a loan that took years to resolve and lost 60%)

Why hard money loan funds?

Hard money loan funds have several advantages over investing in single loans on most of the platforms, including the ability to access more conservative LTV's, higher volume, instant diversification, better transparency, easier management and the potential for early liquidation. However, finding a good fund has been very difficult for many investors. Well, this article puts an end to that. We list the top 19 funds (as nominated by Private Investor Club members). Then we then gathered 25 data points on each so you can quickly contrast and compare them.

The Funds

1. Arixa Capital: Secured Income Fund

2. Avondale Private Lending

3. Cetan Fund

4. Fidelis Private Fund

5. Fund that Flip: Pre-funding Note Fund (PFNF)

6. Fund that Flip: Horizon Residential Income Fund I, LLC (HRIF)

7. Herzer Financial Mortgage Fund (Fund II)

8. GTIS US Real Estate Debt Strategies Fund

9. Lynk Capital

10. Parkview Financial

11. Pelorus Equity Group

12. RD Advisors Real Estate Debt Fund II

13. Socotra Fund

14. Socotra Opportunity Fund

15. Sortis Income Fund

16. Stallion Texas Real Estate Fund (STREF): Stallion Capital Management

17. Stallion Texas Real Estate Fund II (STREFII): Stallion Capital Management

18. W Financial

19. Wilshire Quinn Hard Money Fund
    

Data points gathered on every fund:

1. Last year's return

2. Target return

3. Standard Minimum investment

4. Reduced minimum for PIC?

5. Distribution frequency

6. Lends in non-judicial states only?

7. First position loans only (or if not, then what isn't)?

8. Leveraged? (if so, max and current?)

9. Average loan term

10. Date fund started

11. Max LTV (is this a legal PPM limit or a target)?

12. Current average LTV

13. Geographic focus

14. Loan type*

15. Asset type**

16. AUM

17. Number of loans (currently)

18. Principal's investment ($ and %)

19. Loan Loss Reserve? If so, current and goal %?

20. Uncured default rate (defined as more than 60 days without payment)

21. Withdrawal lockup period/redemption policy

22. All fund compensation including fees, splits, etc.

23. Generates passive or nonpassive income?

24. REIT Structure?

25. Contact person
    

26. Also, a link to detailed discussion of the fund by PIC members

The above is just a summary. Click here for this full article (and full details).

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Next article in this series

Click here to view what can go wrong with a hard money loan in Part 5 - Postmortem: Money flushed down the drain (a loan that took years to resolve and lost 60%)