A tenanted rental, priced at two hundred and forty thousand. The rent is real — someone is already paying it. The financing is lined up. And the lender's number comes back almost thirty-eight thousand dollars short of the asking price.

Nothing is wrong with the house. Nothing is wrong with the rent. What most investors do next is treat that gap as a verdict on the price — and it isn't one. Swap the financing program and the gap moves without the property changing at all.

In this episode of the 5-Minute PRIME Podcast, host Martin Maxwell walks a real underwriting through three options and shows why the most reasonable-sounding one hands your pricing decision to someone whose job is not to get you a return.

Tune in to learn:

• Why a coverage test can bind before the loan-to-value ceiling does — and what that tells you about the rent, not the down payment
• The difference between a deal that is unaffordable and a deal that is priced for a different buyer entirely
• Why writing a bigger cheque can make a deal fundable while leaving it worse on both measures of leverage
• The one sentence to put in your offer notes that makes the next five listings faster to read

Have you ever had a lender come back well under asking and assumed the seller was dreaming? Do you know whether your program's ceiling is set by the rent or by your down payment?

Subscribe now to learn what a maximum loan actually answers — and what it never has.

Read it — see all three options and decide for yourself: reiprime.com/now-what/lender-caps-you-under-ask

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