I talked to one of my best HMLers today and a new trend is emerging here in CA. And, it isn't to the benefit of investors using hard money loans. I am not sure if this is happening with true private money loans. Banks are dropping offers, even cash offers, even ACCEPTED offers, when they find out that hard money is being used. My hard money lender lost *5* of them THIS WEEK alone, and about 20 of them this month. They don't care that they're getting the same amount whether its cash or hard money, they are shunning hard money investors!!
The banks are going towards only accepting real POF as bank statements (no transactional funders or hard money acceptance letters) and are turning away the hard money.