Self-Employed Home Loans in Sandy, UT
Sandy has a lot of people who own the thing they work at. Contractors off 700 East, restaurant owners in the shopping centers along 9000 South, medical practices near Alta View, freelancers who left a tech job downtown and never went back. Self employed home loans exist because none of those people fit the form a retail bank hands out.
First Class Realty has been closing these files in Salt Lake County since 2017, working alongside our creative financing and loan solutions practice.
The Math Problem Nobody Explains Up Front
A lender qualifying a business owner does not use gross revenue. It uses net income from your tax return, after every deduction your accountant found.
Depreciation, mileage, equipment, home office, self-employment tax adjustment—the whole stack gets subtracted before a conventional lender ever sees a number.
So a Sandy contractor who invoiced $420,000 last year and wrote it down to $74,000 in taxable income gets underwritten as a $74,000 borrower. He can pay a $3,400 mortgage without noticing. The conventional file caps him around $1,900.
Nothing about that is a credit problem. It is a documentation format problem, and there are four separate ways to solve it.
Four Programs, Four Different Sets of Paperwork
All four sit under the non-QM umbrella—a loan that simply falls outside the Fannie and Freddie box, with no implication about borrower quality. A meaningful share of ours have credit above 740 and six figures in reserves.
Bank Statement Loans
Twelve or twenty four months of deposits, run through an industry-specific expense factor to arrive at qualifying income. Your tax returns are not part of the calculation. Underwriters read those statements closely, so how you have been banking for the past two years matters more than anything you do the month before you apply.
DSCR Loans
Buying a rental instead of a primary residence changes the question entirely. A DSCR loan qualifies the property on its own rent, dividing projected income by the payment, and your personal return stays out of it. We use these for duplexes on the west side and short-term rentals up toward Little Cottonwood Canyon.
1099 Programs
A 1099 income mortgage skips the bank statement analysis and works directly off your 1099 forms with a fixed expense ratio. Faster and cleaner if your income comes from a handful of payers—commissioned sales, independent insurance producers, and contract medical staff usually qualify this way.
Asset Based Lending
Some borrowers hold substantial assets and report very little income. Asset based lending converts documented liquid holdings into qualifying income through a depletion calculation—common for owners who have sold a business, or older investors living off portfolio draws.
What We Know From Doing This Here
Peter Nguyen is a licensed mortgage broker in all 50 states and buys investment property himself, which means he has personally sat on the borrower side of a self employed mortgage file.
Two patterns come up constantly in this valley. The first involves cash: a nail salon owner home loan is one of the most common files we handle, and salon revenue often includes a large cash component. Deposit it consistently, in amounts that track your actual business, and it counts. Deposit six months of cash in one lump the week before you apply and the file stops.
The second is timing. A business owner home loan is decided by bank activity that already happened. There is no way to fix twenty four months of statements after you find a house you like.
“The clients who get the best terms called me a year early with no property in mind,” Peter says. “That is not a sales line. It is just how the underwriting works.”
One more thing worth clearing up: a no tax return mortgage does not mean the lender never looks at your taxes. Most programs still verify that filings are current through a transcript request. What changes is that the net income line stops setting your loan amount.
Buying and Financing From One Desk
First Class Realty is a boutique practice, not a volume shop. Peter represents buyers and sellers across Salt Lake and Utah Counties through our residential real estate sales service and structures the financing on the same file, so contingency dates get written by someone who knows what underwriting will ask for.
Beyond the loan, we handle buyer representation, listings, seller-financed and assumable purchases, custom home and multi-family development, and full-service property management covering long term, Section 8, and Airbnb units. Investors who close and then manage with us end up with documentation clean enough to support the next purchase.
First in trust. First in class.
Getting Started
A first call runs about fifteen minutes: what the business does, roughly what it deposits, credit range, cash available. That is enough to name the program and a realistic price range.
Then a soft review of statements or 1099s, credit, and reserves produces a pre-approval with actual numbers behind it. From there we shop the file across wholesale lenders, and non-QM pricing moves week to week in ways conventional pricing does not.
Vietnamese-speaking business owners can work the same process with our Vietnamese-speaking realtor directly, in either language.
Learn more about First Class Realty or contact us to start the conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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