Joe Derhake - Engineers Who Understand Your Business

 A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) identifies the environmental liability associated with a real estate asset.  Lenders require a Phase I ESA during the financing of commercial real estate.   The environmental consultant conducting the environmental site assessment is required to insp...

There’s been a lot of movement in the world of multi-family lending of late.  Freddie and Fannie are generally pulling back in their lending, taking a more conservative approach with tightened underwriting for their multi-family mortgage loans.  Both agencies recently updated their due diligence ...