{"id":344,"date":"2010-09-16T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:44:33","slug":"the-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"The sweet spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clay Sparkman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are always looking for the sweet spot these days in the real estate market.\u00a0 And by sweet spot, I mean that realm of\u00a0 investments that are on balance less risky and more likely to turn a profit in what is otherwise a jaded real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>I have gone on a bit in my blogs about REO properties, foreclosures, rehabs and quick flips&#8211;and I remain convinced that this is a sweet spot.\u00a0 Investors are making some real money in this area in today&#8217;s market.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t talked much, however, about multifamily property, and it would be a shame not to, for that is another clear sweet spot in the current market.<\/p>\n<p>See the following article at CoStar Group for plenty of evidence:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costar.com\/News\/Article.aspx?id=9437A225CC30E5B8B978675FD1853D4E\">Investor Hunger for Apt. Properties Still Sharp in Second-Half 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As real estate lenders, of course, we look for the real estate investors who are working the sweet spots successfully.\u00a0 We want to lend money to people who are making money and have figured out the market (or at least are figuring it out).\u00a0 If the investors succeed then we succeed and it is as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8212; Clay (clay@privatemoneysource.com, 503-476-2909 or 800-971-1858)<\/p>\n<p><em>Clay is Vice President of Fairfield Financial, a primary source for private money loans since 1964.\u00a0 Fairfield works with a broad range of private money investors, in a broker capacity, finding, underwriting, presenting, closing, servicing, and when necessary, assisting in the workout of difficult loans.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay Sparkman We are always looking for the sweet spot these days in the real estate market.\u00a0 And by sweet spot, I mean that realm of\u00a0 investments that are on balance less risky and more likely to turn a profit in what is otherwise a jaded real estate market. I have gone on a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[15,19,21,22,23],"tags":[33,37,40,41,42,43,45,47,49,50,51,53,54,58,59,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatemoneysource.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}