Buy-and-Hold Lending

Long-Term Rental Loans in Washington, DC

DSCR Loans Direct provides long-term rental loans for real estate investors acquiring or refinancing buy-and-hold investment properties throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Exterior of a non-owner-occupied buy-and-hold rental property

How It Qualifies

The lease has to cover the loan.

A long-term rental loan is scored on the relationship between what the property collects each month and what it owes each month. Your W-2, tax returns and employment history sit outside that calculation entirely.

Income In

Monthly lease rent

  • Rent under the current lease
  • Market rent where a unit sits vacant
  • Confirmed against the rent roll

Obligation Out

Monthly payment

  • Principal and interest
  • Property taxes
  • Insurance
  • HOA dues, where they apply

The Ratio

Coverage

A ratio of 1.00 means the rent exactly covers the payment. Above it, the property produces a surplus. Below it, the shortfall has to be funded from somewhere else.

Qualifying happens property by property, so adding the next rental does not depend on how many you already hold.

Long-Term Rental Loans in Washington, DC

DSCR Loans Direct provides long-term rental loans for real estate investors acquiring or refinancing buy-and-hold investment properties throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Financing is built around the income the property produces and the investor’s hold strategy, rather than personal income documentation, so a portfolio can grow at the pace the deals allow.

How Long-Term Rental Loans Work

A long-term rental loan is underwritten around the property’s in-place or projected rent measured against its monthly obligation. Because the property carries the qualification, investors who are self-employed, who write off heavily, or who already hold several mortgages are not blocked by the personal-income tests that constrain conventional lending. The loan is structured for a long hold rather than a short-term exit.

Eligible Property Types

Long-term rental financing covers non-owner-occupied investment properties only, including single-family rentals, condos, townhomes, and 2–4 unit properties. Investors operating furnished or nightly rentals should look at short-term rental loans instead, and larger rental holdings fall under multi-family loans. Owner-occupied primary residences are not financed under any program.

Building a Buy-and-Hold Portfolio

Because each property qualifies on its own performance, adding the next rental does not depend on how many are already held. That makes long-term rental financing a practical instrument for investors moving from a first property to a steady portfolio, acquiring as opportunities appear rather than waiting on personal-income capacity to catch up.

Purchase and Refinance Options

Investors use long-term rental loans to acquire a new rental outright, or to refinance a property already owned — moving out of short-term debt after a renovation, restructuring an existing loan, or drawing equity back out of a stabilized property to fund the next acquisition.

Why Investors Choose DSCR Loans Direct

Investors across the DMV market work with DSCR Loans Direct because each file is structured around the property and the long-term plan behind it, backed by decades of hands-on real estate investing experience. As a trusted, expert private money lender, the team underwrites the deal rather than forcing it through a fixed template.

Long-Term Rental Financing Across the DMV Market

Based in Waldorf, MD, DSCR Loans Direct originates long-term rental loans for investors throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia, including Prince George’s County, Baltimore, Annapolis, Alexandria, Rockville, Baltimore County, Prince William County, Fairfax County, and Loudoun County. Investors holding rental property anywhere in the region can rely on DSCR Loans Direct for financing built around the asset.

Adding a rental to the portfolio?

Send us the property and the rent. We’ll come back with next steps.

Ready When You Are

Have a Deal in Front of You?

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Step 1: Submit Your Deal

The same qualifying questions we use for an initial funding review, one step at a time.