Why Investors Are Looking for Boring Investments with Heather Dreves

A few years ago, Heather Dreves was sitting in rooms where investors were excited about opportunities promising returns above 20 percent. Today, she says she hears something very different: people want boring investments.

Heather has spent more than 20 years around private lending. Today, she works with Central Lending, where her main focus is investor relations and capital raising. She is also an active real estate investor who has borrowed private money herself.

That experience gives Heather a view from several sides of the same deal.

She explains how Central Lending funds mainly residential real estate, with fix and flip loans making up much of its business. She also breaks down why the company sells about 90 percent of the loans it originates and how that allows capital to be used again.

The conversation then turns to investors. Heather talks about how changing interest rates affected some syndication exits and why she now sees more interest in debt funds, regular cash flow, reinvestment, and consistency.

Key topics and takeaways:

• Why Heather values seeing a deal as a borrower, investor, and lender
• Why Central Lending focuses mainly on short term residential debt
• How selling originated loans helps capital get deployed again
• Why Heather says investors are asking for more vanilla investments
• How reinvesting earnings can compound returns over time
• Why self directed IRA money is commonly used with their type of product

Guest Information:

Heather Dreves works with Central Lending and focuses mainly on investor relations and capital raising.

Email: heather@CentralLending.com

Website: centrallending.com

Heather also mentioned that she has a LinkedIn profile.

Call to Action:

Heather welcomes conversations with people learning about alternative investments and people who want to understand how to perform due diligence on an operator.

For real estate operators looking for funding in the United States, Heather can also connect them with someone from the Central Lending account executive team. Central Lending can lend to Canadian residents when the property being financed is in the United States.

Contact Heather at heather@CentralLending.com or visit centrallending.com