{"id":150,"date":"2009-12-29T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-12-29T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:21:13","slug":"home-strippers-coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Home strippers coming to a neighborhood near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clay Sparkman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so I was told that if I wanted to get more people to read my posts, I need to utilize attention grabbing headlines.\u00a0 (How am I doing so far?)\u00a0 Now I\u2019d like to see a show of hands, and please be honest here, as this is purely for scientific purposes and the results will remain strictly private:\u00a0 Was it the headline that caused you to click on the link to this blog-post (if so raise your hand) or was it merely your overwhelming and insatiable lust for all things private-money-lending related?\u00a0 Uh huh \u2026 right okay \u2026 hey I believe you.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I figured that this recent New York Times article would be of interest to any active private money and trust deed investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/23\/business\/economy\/23stripped.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/23\/business\/economy\/23stripped.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we haven\u2019t seen too much of this sort of thing yet in our dealings at Fairfield.\u00a0 But then we haven\u2019t had to foreclose on loans in Arizona or Nevada and only have one in foreclosure in Florida and that particular loan is a land loan.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a little trouble here and there, but nothing big.\u00a0 Greg Brown\u2014a favorite musician of mine\u2014used to talk about how folk musicians were different from rock musicians.\u00a0 He said that when folk musicians went on the road, there idea of trashing a hotel room was leaving the TV unplugged.\u00a0 I am happy to say that most of our borrowers thus far have been more the folk-musician-type.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope it stays that way.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t want home strippers coming to a neighborhood near you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8212; Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay Sparkman Okay, so I was told that if I wanted to get more people to read my posts, I need to utilize attention grabbing headlines.\u00a0 (How am I doing so far?)\u00a0 Now I\u2019d like to see a show of hands, and please be honest here, as this is purely for scientific purposes and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,41,42,49,50,51,58,59,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}