While talking about Private Money Lenders, we usually assume that the lender would be an aged man sitting in his private office, wearing spectacles while holding a cigar in his fingers and critically staring at the borrower. It's too old to tell people about private money lenders in such a way now days, because internet makes it possible to access any kind of consultancy or business from your own home or office.  Same goes for private money lending business with the advent of 21st century but of course not all private money lenders are having their business on internet and that owns a professional website. You may also distinguish among professional and non-professional money lenders from their online presentation.

Even in this time of transparent businesses, it is not easy to find a private money lender who is having an established business on money lending and will not disgrace you on your deal table. When you meet money lender for the first time you don't know about his business and financial conditions. In fact it seems difficult to find somebody who is willing to fund your loan as a private individual that has a couple of hundred thousand dollars indeed that you want to know if he has the money or not.  You never knew the status of those funds so it is very difficult to believe that he will fund your real estate investment business.

Those Private Money Lenders who lend money to real estate investors in a professional manner gradually started working on their online presence. As things have progressed there are some companies that have gone online as a hard money lender and that has opened up a variety of things for their existing and potential borrowers. They started maintaining their professional website for the sake of their presence on internet.

So overall it has opened up availability.  So a borrower now with a click of mouse is able to see what type of Private Money Lenders are in the different states and then counties of US who do business and also it has legitimized some of the Private Money Lenders to make sure that you as real estate investors are working with a hard money lender for your investments. I can tell you on numerous occasions I have heard from many borrowers that have showed up to the closing table and supposed to have funds wired and the fund never made it and they called private money lender as they could only contact them through their phone number.

Professional Private Money Lenders or private money lending company owns a professional website for its clients. The website contain company policies, rules, regulations, borrowing conditions, existing clients' testimonials and physical addresses of the company along with email and phone numbers.