Before You Fund: The Due Diligence Blueprint for Private Lenders

Private lending has always carried risk.

What's new is how convincing fraud has become. AI and accessible technologies have made it easier than ever to fabricate a borrower profile, manufacture supporting documents, and clear a surface-level review without raising a single flag.

In this session, we've brought together four experts in fraud detection, background screening, title, and lender protection insurance for an honest conversation about what's changing in the market, what private lenders need to watch for, and what a strong due diligence process looks like in practice. We'll also spend a few minutes on the harder question: if a borrower does disappear, what recourse do you actually have?

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What you’ll take away:

• How fraud is evolving: What fix-and-flip, bridge, construction, and DSCR lenders are most exposed to right now, and why surface-level reviews no longer cut it.
• What a complete pre-funding process looks like: From borrower identity and background screening through to property title and flood risk.
• Why title is a fraud prevention tool, not a formality: How a thorough title search catches what everything else misses before you fund.
• What happens when a borrower walks away: The documentation and insurance decisions that determine whether you have real recourse or none at all.