Private money loan examples
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Clay Sparkman
Here is an example of a loan that we recently placed. We like to give samples from time to time. Not only does this give borrowers and brokers a better idea of the kinds of things that we do, but it also gives them a nice working template for presenting a loan.
Kristopher Gillmore
Fairfield Financial [...]
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Monday, November 30th, 2015
Clay Sparkman
I came across this blog post by Jeffrey Tesch recently. It was originally posted at cpexecutive.com on October 19, 2015. After working to articulate the various practical issues of private money for many years, I felt that it would be nice to offer a fresh voice/perspective on the matter. I contacted a representative for [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
Clay Sparkman
This article was originally posted at this site in May of 2013 at this site. Since then, we have seen the number of construction and fix/flip loans that we do increase significantly. This seems to be a sweet spot for the private money market. That is, we are able to fill what would otherwise [...]
Tags: California, Commercial loans, construction loans, Florida, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Idaho, Las Vegas, Montana, Multifamily, Nevada, New York, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate investing, real estate rental, rehab loans, REO funding, Short sales, Washington
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Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
Clay Sparkman
Historically we have placed loans in the 12-14% range, but in the current market we are finding that this may be a bit high. Especially if a lender is willing to come down to 10-11%, there are little golden nuggets of opportunity presenting themselves.
Here, by way of example, is a loan [...]
Tags: hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, private money loans
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Monday, June 17th, 2013
Clay Sparkman
This post was originally published on this site on July 6th. 2010. I feel that the information within is so important to a full understanding of private money flexibility and creativity, that I modified the document, bringing it up to date, and am publishing it here now once again.
Our private money lending programs tend [...]
Tags: commercial lenders, Commercial loans, construction loans, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Multifamily, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate investing, real estate rental, rehab loans, REO funding, Short sales, subordinate loans
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Clay Sparkman
It is our opinion and the opinion of many others that banks, though they’ve bounced back in certain areas, have not picked up the slack when it comes to funding rehab, construction, and development loans.
I have been on about this before, so I won’t go into great detail here. I think that the following [...]
Tags: bank loans, Commercial loans, construction loans, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Multifamily, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate investing, real estate rental, rehab loans, REO funding, Short sales
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
S. Clay Sparkman
Every now and then I like to present one of the loans that we have placed or are in the process of placing, so that blog readers can see (a) the types of loans that we are placing, and (b) how we feel that loans should be presented. Keep in [...]
Tags: hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, rehab loans
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
Clay Sparkman
When evaluating loan requests, this is the fundamental question: what exactly do you want me to do for you? It is impossible to count the number of times that I have receive loan packets or proposals that didn’t include a loan summary or any clear description of the request. The process of evaluating a [...]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Clay Sparkman
From time to time, I like to publish the prospectus for a loan that we have placed. I do this for two reasons. One: so you can get an idea of the kinds of loans that we do, and two: so you can see how a nice tight loan presentation should look.
The prospectus which [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, construction loans, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, real estate investing, real estate rental
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
Clay Sparkman
(In October of 2011, I posted this item on my Private Money Investor blog. I thought it might be useful to brokers as well—the idea being so that you may (a) see how we present loans to our internal working investors, (b) gain perspective on our entire private money loan process, from start to [...]
Tags: hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money investing, hard money lending, hard money loans, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money investing, private money lending, private money loans, trust deed investing
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Clay Sparkman
I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight a loan that we were able to get into escrow 1 week from the time the borrower submitted his scenario. This is not something we can do every time, but very possible for a proven borrower that knows the dance. I’ll refer to this borrower as [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, construction loans, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate investing, real estate rental, rehab loans, REO funding, Short sales, subordinate loans
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
Clay Sparkman
Generally speaking we are quite willing to consider small loans. We realize that we will never get rich doing small loans, but we also remember what got us where we are. The large loans can be quite fickle, coming and going as they please, but the small loans seem to be there when we [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
In the spirit of learning by example, I’d like to take the opportunity to describe an interesting scenario that we put together.
They say that when it rains, it pours. Well, for our borrower it had been pouring for a long time. A long run of bad luck had left him in a difficult situation, [...]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
I firmly believe that the best way to learn about anything complex is by doing. The second best way is by example. If I could provide you with a private money loan simulator I would, but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet (though I assure you, we haven’t given up on [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
Most likely you have clients who buy distressed properties from time to time–with the intention of making a profit–and need a source of funding to fuel their activities. There are three common ways to buy distressed properties: pre-auction, auction, and post auction (generally referred to as REO). Most investors are forced to buy either [...]
Tags: auction buying, finding lenders, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Idaho, Nevada, New York, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, Quick flip loans, real estate rental, rehab loans, REO funding, Short sales
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
As I pointed out in a previous mailing, our private money lending programs tend to be fairly rigid with regard to LTV requirements, but quite forgiving with regard to other issues. One of the nice things about private money is that it allows for creative problems solving. I have put many transactions together that [...]
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
It is often quite difficult for professionals to get a sense of what hard money is all about and to know when it is the best option for putting a transaction together. I have found that the best way to teach is by example. So to that end I will profile several loans here that [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, construction loans, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Idaho, Multifamily, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, real estate, real estate investing, rehab loans
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
Because I have found that one of the best ways to learn is by way of example, I like to give frequent examples of actual loans that we have funded. The following loan was funded quite some time ago, but is quite typical of the sort of thing that we are looking to do [...]
Tags: construction loans, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate, real estate investing, rehab loans
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
It is often quite difficult for professionals to get a sense of what hard money is all about and to know when it is the best option for putting a transaction together. I have found that the best way to teach is by example. So to that end I will profile some sample loans [...]
Tags: Commercial loans, construction loans, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, Idaho, Oregon, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, real estate, real estate investing
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Clay Sparkman
We’ve been through nearly 3 ½ rough years in the real estate market—and projections seem to indicate that we will finally see clear up-turn in the second half of this year, but no one really knows for sure. We have managed to survive this down-time (all who are still present please take a moment [...]
Tags: commercial lenders, Commercial loans, construction loans, hard money borrowing, hard money brokering, hard money loans, private money borrowing, private money brokering, private money loans, Quick flip loans, real estate, real estate investing, real estate rental, rehab loans
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