{"id":22,"date":"2009-08-16T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-08-16T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T19:17:41","slug":"learning-how-to-blog-private-money-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Learning How to Blog &#8211; Private Money Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clay Sparkman<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay, here we go.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been fussing around with this software and reading books on blogging and thinking about how to do this just so so.\u00a0 But I realize now that it&#8217;s kind of like running a class-5 rapid.\u00a0 Ultimately you just have to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?\u00a0 My name is Clay Sparkman and I will be blogging to you on a regular basis about hard money investing.\u00a0 I am the Vice President and part owner of Fairfield Financial.\u00a0 I have  been brokering and investing in private money loan transactions since 1992.\u00a0 I hold an MBA degree from Portland State University and a BS in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Oregon.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Many people want to participate or get more involved, but don&#8217;t know where to go to learn about it.\u00a0 To this day, I am personally astounded by the lack of quality resources on this topic.\u00a0 So my goal with this blog is to help fill the void&#8211;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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;d like to start by asking if anyone would be willing to share information regarding quality resources that already exist regarding private money investing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8212; Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay Sparkman Okay, here we go.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been fussing around with this software and reading books on blogging and thinking about how to do this just so so.\u00a0 But I realize now that it&#8217;s kind of like running a class-5 rapid.\u00a0 Ultimately you just have to do it. Who am I?\u00a0 My name is Clay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}