Non-QM by JoeFairway Home Mortgage

Non-QM lending · Minnesota & Wisconsin

The bank said no?
They read the wrong documents.

Self-employed. Investor. 1099. Asset-rich. Your income is real — it just doesn't fit a W-2 checkbox. Joe Juliano matches how you actually earn to one of nine non-QM programs, most with zero tax returns required.

🚫 No tax returns on most programs🏢 LLC-friendly investor loans⭐ 5.0 on Zillow
Joe JulianoFairway Home Mortgage · NMLS #866085
hey joe — I'm self-employed and my bank just denied my mortgage. am I stuck renting?? 😩

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Not even close. Tax returns are one way to prove income — I work with nine others. Quick question: how do you actually earn? 👇
Bank Statement Loans0 months of depositsWe qualify you on 12–24 months of bank deposits. Your tax returns stay in the drawer.How it works →

Typical program characteristics · reviewed July 2026 · all nine programs

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Sound familiar?

Four people the bank turned away.
None of them should have been.

The write-off pro

Runs a healthy business, but the Schedule C says otherwise — because their CPA is good at their job.

Bank statements fix this →

The scaling investor

Hit the conventional property cap, or just tired of re-documenting their life for every rental.

DSCR fixes this →

The commission earner

Big 1099s, lumpy months, and a tax return engineered to show as little as legally possible.

1099 loans fix this →

The early retiree

Seven figures in the brokerage account and "no income" — according to a formula built for paystubs.

Asset qualifier fixes this →

The non-QM difference

Same house. Same closing table.
Different paperwork.

Non-QM loans aren't a workaround — they're fully underwritten mortgages that document your ability to repay with the paperwork that actually describes your life.

  1. 1

    Tell Joe how you earn

    Business owner, investor, contractor, retiree — one text starts it.

  2. 2

    Match the documentation

    Bank statements, rent, 1099s, assets, or a CPA-prepared P&L — whichever tells your strongest story.

  3. 3

    Close like any other loan

    Appraisal, underwriting, clear-to-close, keys. The finish line looks exactly the same.

Walk through the whole process
so a non-QM loan isn't some sketchy subprime thing?
Nope — that's the biggest myth I fight. Non-QM loans are fully underwritten under federal ability-to-repay rules. We verify you can afford it; we just use documents that fit how you earn.

Nine ways to yes

Find the program built for how you earn

Typical non-QM program characteristics as of July 2026. Every investor sets its own guidelines, and they change without notice — treat everything on this page as a starting point, not a quote.

Investors: run your deal

Does the property qualify itself?

Two numbers — the market rent and the full monthly payment — tell you whether a DSCR loan works. Our calculator does the math and shows you the payment breakdown live.

Open the DSCR calculator →
Joe Juliano, Loan Officer, NMLS #866085
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Meet Joe

The guy who reads the file the bank wouldn't

Joe Juliano has spent 17 years in mortgage lending, and a lot of that time un-sticking files other lenders gave up on. Non-QM is his favorite kind of puzzle: real income, real assets, real deals — just paperwork that needs the right program behind it.

He's a Loan Officer with Fairway Home Mortgage in Eden Prairie, licensed in Minnesota & Wisconsin, and he answers his own texts.

Told “no” by a bank? Get a second opinion.

Most non-QM borrowers heard “no” somewhere else first. One text to Joe and you’ll know which program actually fits — no pressure, no jargon, no obligation.