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What Are Borrower Payment Dependent Notes?

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If you are new to real estate investing or are exploring new ways to invest, you may have heard of borrower payment dependent notes. 

Borrower payment dependent notes are often used in real estate to help fund investment properties at a lower cost. 

Our real estate investing experts work with notes on a routine basis and want our investors to feel more comfortable with the term. So we decided to write an article about it. 

In this article you will learn what borrower payment dependent notes are, how they work, the risks associated with them, and how they can make you money. 

Let’s get started! 

What are Borrower Payment Dependent Notes?

Borrower Payment Dependent Notes (BPDN) are debt obligations of a private lender that are tied to the performance of a loan/asset made by that lender. 

Borrower payment dependent notes were created to help private lenders structure debt transactions more efficiently. They do this by offering the opportunity to invest to multiple investors for the same deal. With multiple investors investing in a loan, no single investor has to fund the deal on their own – they can invest with less money. The more investors involved in the deal the lower the minimum investment goes. 

How Do Borrower Payment Dependent Notes Work? 

Essentially borrower payment dependent notes add a middle man to the transaction. Instead of investing directly in the property with the full investment, a middle man (the private lender) loans portions of the equity to multiple investors. When you obtain a borrower payment dependent note you are purchasing a stake in the asset which acts as collateral in the transaction. 

So what does this mean for investors?

For investors, borrower payment dependent notes work like every other real estate investment. You fund the investment and if the private lender goes bankrupt or the borrower defaults on their loan, the asset acts as collateral therefore you get your stake. The difference is that investors can invest a much smaller amount, making real estate investments much more affordable.

How do borrower payment dependent notes work?

Who Offers Borrower Payment Dependent Notes? 

These notes are funded by hard-money private lenders, like Yieldi. A private lender will find an investment opportunity that needs funding. Once they identify a promising opportunity, they will then fund the investment with small investments from multiple investors via borrower payment dependent notes. 

For example, let’s say you were to fund one of our offerings. Most of the real estate investments we offer are around a million dollars. You obviously don’t want to fund that entire amount on your own, you only want to invest a portion. Let’s say you only want to invest $100,000 (with Yieldi you can invest from $50,000 – $500,000) of the $1,000,000 offering. 

With a borrower payment dependent note you can. A hard money lender would offer you 10% of the asset as collateral for your funding. And then find nine other people to do the same until the property is completely funded. Thus, making high-yield real estate investing much more affordable and accessible for investors. 

How Do The Investors Get Paid? 

Each note is tied to the performance of the corresponding asset. With Yieldi, we target a 10% interest rate of return for our investors. One of the significant advantages of investing in real estate compared to the stock market is that you generate monthly cash flow. Investors are paid monthly interest until the loan reaches maturity.We do our best to get investors paid by the fifthteeth of each month. 

Obviously the first of the month would be ideal but there are a few steps that have to happen before the money reaches investors. First the borrower needs to pay the lender, who then passes on the funds to the BPDN issuer, who then distributes the money to investors.  

Investors claim their earnings with a 1099 tax form issued by the lender. 

What are the Risks of Borrower Payment Dependent Notes? 

What are the Risks of Borrower Payment Dependent Notes? 

Since most investors aren’t familiar with the term ‘borrower payment dependent note’, we get this question a lot. The answer is simple – the risks are similar to most real estate investments. Since they are essentially smaller scale real estate investments they come with the same risks. 

A few real estate investing risks include

  • Market risk 
  • Location risk 
  • Asset risk 
  • Financial risk 

There is a chance the housing market could crash again or asset’s location could become less popular depreciating your asset. Whenever you take money out of the safety of your bank account and put it in an investment there are risks. The important thing is to protect your principal by mitigating risk. 

Asset-based investing is a great way to mitigate risk while protecting principle because the asset acts as collateral. While there is always risk when investing, asset-based investing is considered safer than stock market investing. 

Leverage BPDN to Start Real Estate Investing

Borrower payment dependent notes are a great tool to use to get started in real estate investing. You don’t have to do any of the grunt work of being a landlord, yet still enjoy the profits. BPDN let you invest in small portions, so you don’t have to put down 20% if you don’t want to.  

If you are a stock market investor looking for an easy way to diversify your portfolio, asset-based investing is a great place to start. 

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