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Twenty-eight questions you must ask

Tuesday, February 25th, 2020

Clay Sparkman I first wrote and published this piece in its original form in September of 2009. I am of the firm belief that the key to success (defined as: having fun and maximizing your return, two closely correlated phenomena), is rigorous and comprehensive vetting of the loan proposal. If you do this right, the […]

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Climate change and the real estate market

Friday, January 31st, 2020

S. Clay Sparkman One thing that nearly all investors surely have on their minds right now is the possible economic impacts of climate change. Certainly, any progressive and significant trend toward global warming should concern anyone who invests either directly or indirectly in real estate markets. If you ask any climate change scientist what effect […]

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Hang Tight

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Clay Sparkman As you all know, these have been difficult times for private money investors. Competition is up, rates are down, and solid opportunities are getting harder to find. The following article: Three Challenges Faced by Today’s Private Money Lenders and How to Weather Them, by Noah Brocious at Forbes, is a a very straightforward […]

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Information for investors

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Clay Sparkman Here is our *Information for Investors* section. It is direct and to the point. It tells you what you can expect of us and what we will expect to you, in a broker-relationship. http://www.privatemoneysource.com/investors.php Best, Clay Sparkman, CEO – Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com, 503-476-2909) Clay is Vice President of Fairfield Financial, a primary source for […]

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Don’t put all your egg baskets in one egg truck

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Clay Sparkman Colloquialisms are funny things.  We use them pretty much every day in our speech and in our writing and yet most of us, I suspect, though we know the meanings of the expressions, frequently don’t know why the individual words have come to mean what they mean.  Take for example: “Don’t look a […]

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The Round Table, with King Arthur

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

S. Clay Sparkman I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and I must say, we’ve seen good times and some bad. I’ve been involved in several thousand private money loans. Certainly, I’ve experienced a full cross section of the private money lender perspective. One might wonder, how can a long-term private money lender expect to […]

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Real estate values – what’s next?

Monday, February 4th, 2019

S. Clay Sparkman It has been quite a challenge this past dozen years predicting the movement of real estate market values. Values spike. values crash, values spike again, and then … maybe get a little squishy. Also, note the strange happenings in the national political machinery. It might be perilous to ignore this entirely. For […]

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Private money – whole loans vs fractional share loans

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

S. Clay Sparkman This issue nearly always comes up in early conversations with new potential investors. Working with private money investors, we are able to fund loans in two different ways. (1)  Single loan/single investor – This is probably most common. It is quite simple. A potential investor evaluates a loan, and if she chooses […]

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Will Amazon’s HQ2 sink Seattle’s housing market?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2018

S. Clay Sparkman Will Amazon’s HQ2 sink Seattle’s housing market? https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/will-amazons-hq2-sink-seattles-housing-market/ Probably not much, but it should pump up the markets in NYC and DC even furthur. Best, Clay – Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com, 503-476-2909) Clay is Vice President of Fairfield Financial, a primary source for private money loans since 1964. Fairfield works with a broad range […]

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Sample loan

Monday, November 5th, 2018

Clay Sparkman Here is an example of a loan that we recently placed. We like to show samples from time to time, so investors can see the kinds of loans that we are placing AND the format we use for the executive summary. Kristopher Gillmore Fairfield Financial Services, Inc 3327 SE 50th St, Portland, OR […]

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