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Private money loan examples

The kinds of things we are doing – an example

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 […]

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A private money loan prospectus – Hood Canal, Washington

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 […]

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A Note on Relationships

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 […]

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Small Is Beautiful

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 […]

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Private money – getting from point A to point D

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 […]

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Private Money Loan Simulator

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 […]

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Auction Buyers Take Note

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 […]

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On the art of handcrafting loans

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 […]

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Getting Unstuck with Private Money

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 […]

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Example private money loan – turn of century coastal view home remodeling project

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 […]

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