"Institutional investor" means a person who, in the regular course of business, makes commercial mortgage loans of more than $250,000 that are funded exclusively from one or more of the following sources:
1. The person’s cash, corporate capital or warehouse credit lines at a depository financial institution or other sources that are liability items on the person’s financial statements.
2. Correspondent contracts between the person and another institutional investor or between the person and a depository financial institution, trust company, profit-sharing or pension trust, installment lender or insurance company.
3. An affiliate’s cash, corporate capital or warehouse credit lines at a depository financial institution or other sources that are liability items on the affiliate’s financial statements for which the affiliate’s assets are pledged. As used in this subsection, "affiliate" means another person who, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the person who is the institutional investor.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 3035, effective January 1, 2020)