{"id":20811,"date":"2020-06-20T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/?page_id=20811"},"modified":"2020-06-20T05:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T05:50:35","slug":"mortgage-investments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/mortgage-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do recommend mortgage investments (in Australia) but at present are accumulating cash (allowing mortgages to expire) so that we are in a position to take advantage of equity opportunities as they arise.<\/p>\n<p>Lending risk has also spiked with the shutdown and we have revised our rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>No property development;<\/li>\n<li>No construction risk;<\/li>\n<li>No composite mortgage funds where we cannot identify the underlying assets and borrowers;<\/li>\n<li>No specialized properties (e.g. hotel, motel, holiday accommodation, child care, cold storage, dairy, etc.);<\/li>\n<li>No restaurants, gyms or businesses with a high failure rate;<\/li>\n<li>Alternative source of income (e.g. small or medium-sized business) to service the loan; and<\/li>\n<li>LVR no more than 60%.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do recommend mortgage investments (in Australia) but at present are accumulating cash (allowing mortgages to expire) so that we are in a position to take advantage of equity opportunities as they arise. Lending risk has also spiked with the shutdown and we have revised our rules: No property development; No construction risk; No composite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/mortgage-investments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mortgage Investments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mortgage Investments - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/mortgage-investments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mortgage Investments - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We do recommend mortgage investments (in Australia) but at present are accumulating cash (allowing mortgages to expire) so that we are in a position to take advantage of equity opportunities as they arise. 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