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And now, Dan Lane.

There are a ton of ways to finance rental properties.

And if you want to grow your portfolio past a couple of rentals, commercial financing

may be the way to help you get there.

Now, it's called commercial financing, but these loans are actually made on residential

real estate. So it's kind of a funny thing to call it a commercial loan when it's actually

on residential real estate. But these are loans that banks make to just regular people, regular investors like us that want to

buy rental properties. And there's banks out there, local community banks, and every town in

this country has these local community banks that specialize in making real estate loans that

don't go by the typical standards that you would find for your

traditional Fannie and Freddie rental property loans. So I wanted to bring a commercial banker on today

to talk about how this works, to talk about what the banks are looking for, and how we can take

advantage of this to grow our portfolio. So let's take a real quick break.

We'll come back in 30 seconds and we'll meet Elliot Colts. He is a banker with City National Bank

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