--- title: Big Commercial Bridge Loans With Less Than Interest-Only Payments description: Commercial bridge loan lenders are so desperate that they are making negatively-amortizing commercial loans. image: https://info.c-loans.com/hubfs/Bridge%20Loans.jpg --- [![c-loans-logo-2025](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/c-loans-logo-2025.png?width=183&height=86&name=c-loans-logo-2025.png)](https://c-loans.com) [Terms of Use](https://www.c-loans.com/terms-of-use) | [Disclaimer](https://www.c-loans.com/disclaimer) | [Blog](https://info.c-loans.com/) # Commercial Loans and Fun Blog ## [Big Commercial Bridge Loans With Less Than Interest-Only Payments](https://info.c-loans.com/big-commercial-bridge-loans-with-less-than-interest-only-payments) Posted by [George Blackburne](https://info.c-loans.com/author/george-blackburne) on Mon, Mar 2, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![Bridge Loans](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bridge%20Loans.jpg?width=324&name=Bridge%20Loans.jpg)Last week I wrote a blog about how historically aggressive private money commercial bridge lenders are getting.  This month George Smith Partners, the big commercial mortgage banking company (the original founder started George Smith & Company decades before I founded Blackburne & Sons forty years ago) released a newsletter, [FinFacts](https://www.gspartners.com/finfacts-newsletter-sign-up/), containing the following tombstone:   [![Earn 11% to 12% Interest Since 1980](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/80333ce3-b6a5-4bf7-9687-52c156ed5457.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/80333ce3-b6a5-4bf7-9687-52c156ed5457)   ![Police Dog](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Police%20Dog.png?width=423&name=Police%20Dog.png)   [![Apply For a Commercial Loan to Blackburne & Sons](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc)   "George Smith Partners ("GS P") placed a $10,900,000 non-recourse loan for the refinance of an underperforming stabilized 50-unit multifamily community in Los Angeles.  The Sponsor recently acquired the asset at approximately 50% below market from an affiliate party, and GSP was able to facilitate approximately $3,000,000in cash out proceeds at closing." "A portion of the loan proceeds will be used to renovate units as they become vacant in order to achieve current market rents.  GSP identified a non-institutional lender (private money lender) who was comfortable with the cash out proceeds and who understood the history and dynamics of this non-arms-length acquisition.  **The non-recourse loan is fixed for 1.5 years with a 7.99% interest rate and 4.99% pay rate."**   [![Submit Your Loan to 750 Commercial Lenders Using C-Loans.com.  It's Free!](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/9f0b2bed-fb9b-455d-b8be-17d8f7960a2a.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/9f0b2bed-fb9b-455d-b8be-17d8f7960a2a)   ![Bear Kisses](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bear%20Kisses.jpg?width=451&name=Bear%20Kisses.jpg)   [![Free List of 3,159 Commercial Lenders Sort By Your Own Criteria](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24)   **Terms:** Interest Rate:  7.99% with 4.99% pay rate Term:  18 months LTV:  70% Recourse:  Carve-Outs Only Fees:  1.0% Prepayment:  None; no exit fee The reason I brought this closing to your attention is because the Big Girls (the originator of this commercial loan at GSP was a lady) are arranging large commercial bridge loans ***with less than interest-only payments.***   [![Nine-Hour Video Training Course How to Broker Commercial Loans](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f)   ![Retirement](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Retirement.png?width=418&name=Retirement.png)   [![Become a Hard Money Lender. 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