Best Lender Link Podcasts (2025)

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Inside Stormfield Capital: Real Estate Bridge Lending Strategy & Market Outlook 1:17:55

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24d ago1:17:55

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Rocky Butani talks with Wesley Carpenter, Co-Founder and Partner at Stormfield Capital, a Connecticut-based private lender and debt fund manager with $750MM AUM. Wes discusses the 2025 market outlook, the state of bridge lending, and how Stormfield serves investors across the East Coast. He shares insights on loan volume, underwriting discipline, t…

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Inside Residential Capital Partners: 100% Financing for Rehab Projects Nationwide 55:06

2M ago55:06

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Rocky Butani interviewed Paul Jackson, President & CEO of Residential Capital Partners, one of the few private lenders offering 100% financing for residential & multifamily rehab projects nationwide. Paul shares his insights on the real estate market, ground-up construction trends, and how ResCap has maintained steady lending volumes for 16+ years.…

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Navigating What’s Next in Private Lending: Trends, Strategy, and Vision with Anthony Geraci 59:46

3M ago59:46

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Rocky Butani interviews Anthony Geraci, founder of the newly re-launched Geraci Law Firm and a long-time leader in the private lending space. Anthony discusses his recent split from the firm he originally built, his continued focus on supporting private lenders, and his vision for the future of the industry. Anthony shares his perspective on major …

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California Bridge Lending with Rubicon Mortgage Fund 54:55

3M ago54:55

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Rocky Butani interviews Vance Hillstrom, CEO of Rubicon Mortgage Fund, for a wide-ranging discussion on California’s evolving real estate market, Rubicon’s conservative lending philosophy, and what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s private lending landscape. Rubicon has been originating bridge loans for nearly 20 years, funding deals exclus…

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DSCR Rental Loan Guidelines and Trends with American Heritage Lending 53:10

4M ago53:10

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Rocky Butani interviews Dave Orloff, CEO of American Heritage Lending for an in-depth discussion on DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio) loans. They explore current market trends in mid-2025, interest rate volatility, updated loan guidelines, and what makes AHL’s DSCR program stand out — including high LTV options, 40-year loan terms, fee stacking, a…

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Inside Yieldi: Strategic Bridge Lending for CRE, Land and Luxury Homes 50:41

4M ago50:41

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Yieldi's principals, Joe Ashkouti and Josh Lloyd, spoke with Rocky Butani to talk about bridge loans for commercial and residential investment properties, their lending guidelines, the company's unique capital structure, and more. Visit Yieldi's profile on PrivateLenderLink.com to learn more and to contact them: https://privatelenderlink.com/profil…

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Private Lending in New York City with We Lend 53:32

5M ago53:32

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Solomon Suleymanov, Partner and Director of Originations at We Lend LLC, spoke with Rocky Butani to talk about private/hard money lending in the New York City metro area. Visit We Lend’s profile on PrivateLenderLink.com to learn more and to contact them: https://privatelenderlink.com/profile/we-lend-llc/?utm_source=lender-link-podcast This intervie…

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Creative Small Balance CRE Hard Money with Gelt Financial 1:05:44

5M ago1:05:44

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Jack Miller, President of Gelt Financial, spoke with Rocky Butani to talk about hard money loans for small commercial properties, their unique lending guidelines, the company's long history, and more. Visit Gelt’s profile on PrivateLenderLink.com to learn more and to contact them: https://privatelenderlink.com/profile/gelt-financial/?utm_source=len…

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New England Private Lending with Cardinal Capital Group 1:17:15

6M ago1:17:15

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Briana Hildt, Co-Founder and CEO of Cardinal Capital Group, shared some insights about private lending in New England, the state of the market, their lending guidelines, the company's growth over the past few years, and nuggets about each of the different metro areas in the region. Visit Cardinal's profile on PrivateLenderLink.com to learn more and…

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Jon Hornik Talks Capital Markets, Trade Tensions, and the National Private Lenders Association 45:15

6M ago45:15

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Jon Hornik spoke with Rocky Butani to share his thoughts on the trade war’s impact on the private lending industry as of late April 2025. He also shared insights about the National Private Lenders Association (NPLA). Hornik serves as the Founder, Executive Director, and General Counsel of the NPLA. In addition, Hornik is the Managing Partner and Ch…

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RBI Private Lending's National Expansion and Insights about Florida 53:43

6M ago53:43

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Andres Saias, Chief Lending Officer at RBI Private Lending, spoke with Rocky Butani to share some insights about their growth in the past few years, their national expansion, and what's happening in Florida. Visit RBI's profile on PrivateLenderLink.com to learn more and to contact them: https://privatelenderlink.com/profile/rbi-mortgages/?utm_sourc…

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Private Lending Capital Markets and Debt Funds Update by Kevin Kim 2025 Q1 44:18

8M ago44:18

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Kevin Kim, securities attorney and partner at Fortra Law, spoke with Rocky Butani to share some insights about private mortgage funds and the secondary market for private lending in early 2025. Kevin specializes in fund formation and has assisted tons of private lending companies with securities and capital raising legal matters. Visit Fortra's pro…

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DMV Real Estate Investing and Lending with Clear Sky Financial 58:11

8M ago58:11

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Charlie Einsman, Co-Founder of Clear Sky Financial spoke with Rocky Butani to share some insights about real estate investing and lending in the DMV region (DC, Maryland, Virginia). Find out what's happening with real estate in each of the 3 states (2025 Q1), learn about Clear Sky's unique lending program for real estate investors, and more. Visit …

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Jeff Tesch's Insights and RCN Capital Updates 2025 Q1 36:05

8M ago36:05

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Jeff Tesch, CEO of RCN Capital spoke with Rocky Butani to share some insights about a variety of topics in private lending: 2024 loan volume, interest rates, insurance challenges, multifamily financing, 2025 predictions, RCN's wholesale program and more. RCN is mostly a wholesale lender serving loan originators, and they have a small retail divisio…

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Lender Link Report : February 2025 23:29

8M ago23:29

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Rocky Butani provides a report about private lending and Lender Link: thoughts about 2024, predictions for 2025, updates on our podcast, a few new lenders that were recently added to PrivateLenderLink.com, our new AI project and industry conferences. Visit this page on our website to see a list of all the private lending conferences in 2025: https:…

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Security Financial Services | Northern California Private Lending 1:06:29

9M ago1:06:29

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In the 6th episode of the Private Lending Insights Podcast, Rocky Butani interviewed Marc Rouda and Alexis Rouda from Security Financial Services to learn all about private lending in Northern California. They talked about their loan program, Bay Area private money trends, tenants in common deals in San Francisco and more. The company was establish…

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Private Construction Financing by Center Street Lending 54:03

9M ago54:03

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In the 5th episode of the Private Lending Insights podcast, Rocky Butani interviewed Jeremiah Wiedman and Erik Brown from Center Street Lending to learn all about ground-up construction for residential investment properties and small multifamily properties throughout the United States. We talk about trends in 2024-2025, requirements to get a loan, …

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100% Financing Program by Rehab Financial Group 30:29

10M ago30:29

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In the 4th episode of the Private Lending Insights podcast, Rocky Butani interviewed John Santilli from Rehab Financial Group to learn all about their 100% financing loan program for residential real estate investors. We go in-depth to cover all the requirements, the pricing structure, costs, draw process and much more. Visit RFG's profile on Priva…

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State Licensing for Private Lending 31:10

11M ago31:10

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Rocky Butani interviewed Jennifer Young, Partner at Fortra Law, to learn which states require a licensed to originate private mortgages (aka hard money loans) secured by investment real estate. Fortra Law is the largest law firm in the United States for private lending and offers a variety of legal services - compliance, licensing, securities law, …

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The Rise of American Heritage Lending 31:03

11M ago31:03

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Rocky Butani interviewed Dave Orloff, CEO of American Heritage Lending, a national direct private lending company based in Irvine, California. They offer a variety of financing options to residential real estate investors in 45 states: DSCR 30-year rental loans, fix & flip, ground-up construction and short-term bridge loans. The company has grown i…

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Private Lending Insights Podcast Overview 3:50

1y ago3:50

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In the first episode of Private Lending Insights, Rocky Butani, provides an introduction and overview of the podcast, which is hosted by Lender Link. We operate PrivateLenderLink.com, a website were real estate investors and mortgage brokers find direct private lending companies (aka hard money lenders) throughout the United States.…