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When Excel Says 1.35x And The Lender Says lol: An Underwriting Horror-Comedy

ricklahkar
Apr 10
1 min read

Broker: It’s a clean deal, 95% occupied Me: Modeled 1.35x DSCR and a 6 cap, feeling invincible Lender: Please upload trailing 47 P&Ls, roof selfies, and proof your pro forma believes in gravity Appraiser: Value… depends who asked Me at 2:37am color-coding 19 tabs: Is this underwriting or Sudoku on nightmare mode? 😵‍💫

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