Okay, here we go.  I’ve been fussing around with this software and reading books on blogging and thinking about how to do this just so so.  But I realize now that it’s kind of like running a class-5 rapid.  Ultimately you just have to do it.

Who am I?  My name is Clay Sparkman and I will be blogging to you on a regular basis about hard money investing.  I am the Vice President and part owner of Fairfield Financial.  I have been brokering and investing in private money loan transactions since 1992.  I hold an MBA degree from Portland State University and a BS in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Oregon.  If there is anything I have learned in my 17+ years in the private money investment field it is that there is a thirst out there for more high quality, well organized information regarding this type of investing.  Many people want to participate or get more involved, but don’t know where to go to learn about it.  To this day, I am personally astounded by the lack of quality resources on this topic.  So my goal with this blog is to help fill the void–to provide a quality forum in which interested parties can discuss and learn more about the many intricacies of private money or trust deed investing.

I’m not sure I even have a single chair filled yet in my forum, and so I may be listening to my own echo for awhile, but in case anyone is listening, I’d like to start by asking if anyone would be willing to share information regarding quality resources that already exist regarding private money investing.

– Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com)