Debt Doctor
America's most qualified Debt Doctor, Bill Bymel, delivers the definitive prescription for navigating the complex world of distressed real estate debt and specialty finance to help you identify, acquire, and monetize undervalued real estate assets.
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Global Debt Just Broke The Old Math (opens the original)
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Global debt is sitting near where it stood after World War II, and the math that let governments carry it cheaply for decades just flipped. I spent this week with the BIS annual report, the read central banks themselves take seriously, and there's a line in it that should stop you before you price your next refinance. Bond market liquidity that looks fine on a Tuesday can be gone by Friday. Private credit stress is already showing up in the exact corner of the system built to be the safe overflo
Multifamily Trap is Springing Now (opens the original)
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Multifamily investing is where I'm watching the next round of trouble build right now, and the fault line runs straight through how the 2021 and 2022 deals got financed. Ken Gee has worked three seats in this business — CPA, commercial lender, and the operator now writing checks into apartments while a lot of capital sits frozen between fear and FOMO. The paper bought on short-term and bridge debt is coming due, and the business plans underneath a chunk of it have already slipped. Ken came throu
Mortgage Bankruptcy Is Now Outpacing Foreclosure (opens the original)
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Years of free loan modifications didn't solve the default problem, they delayed it. In more of my markets than I'd like, mortgage bankruptcy filings are already ahead of foreclosures, and the servicing shops, law firms, and preservation firms built for the last cycle keep consolidating or disappearing. Barry Owens has spent his career deciding what happens to a distressed file once the easy path closes, and we get into why mortgage bankruptcy, not foreclosure, is the number to watch right now, a
Note Investing Is Filling Up With Bank Rejects (opens the original)
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Every borrower a bank turns away has to land somewhere. More and more of them are landing in private paper, which means they're landing on you. Affordability isn't cooling the housing market. It's reshaping who can borrow, how deals get structured, and where your next note actually comes from. Homes are sitting longer. Price cuts are climbing. And the borrowers showing up in note investing right now are ones the banks wouldn't finance a year ago. Something under this market is moving, and you're
Private Credit Won't Survive a Hard Look (opens the original)
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Something is turning in the loan books, and if you hold paper or source your own deals, it's already moving toward you. The distress in private credit that keeps getting written off as noise is only getting started. FHA defaults are working loose. The collateral behind a lot of private credit won't hold up to a hard look. And the firms that packaged it are about to find out what they actually own. I've resolved thousands of distressed situations, and the early tremors always look like this. I wo
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