Clay Sparkman On occasion, I try to publish links to articles that are relevant, useful, and interesting. Here are three articles which give useful perspective on the matter of investing in real estate in 2012—each from a different perspective. A money.cnn article on how to find real estate opportunities in 2013: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/01/real_estate/housing-outlook-2013.moneymag/index.html Dailyresearchhunter.com on global […]
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Investing in real estate in 2013: Three articles you should read
Thursday, January 31st, 20132013: Think construction loans
Friday, January 25th, 2013Clay Sparkman I rather enjoyed the following article in the www.thefiscaltimes.com (quite an impressive publication at first blush), and thought it would be a good one to share. “Ten Real Estate Trends to Watch in 2013” http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/12/06/10-Real-Estate-Trends-to-Watch-in-2013.aspx#page1 The article begins by noting that “national home prices have been on the uptick for eight straight months,” […]
Where do you go to learn about private money?
Friday, January 11th, 2013I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked by prospective private money investors, “Where do I go to learn more about this? Where are the books? Where are the articles? where are the websites” I have generally had to shrug my shoulders and say, “You know, I don’t know.” I can’t tell […]
Private Money FAQ
Monday, January 7th, 2013Clay Sparkman I try to update and publish this FAQ every once in awhile, as it is a handy guide to better understanding the market for private money loans in general–and more particularly, how we operate here at FFS, by way of example. Private money is often misunderstood. Many industry professionals know very little about […]
Private Money – The Rules of Physics May Not Apply
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012This article was published in The Scotsman Guide as “2 Private-Money Myths: Debunked” back around the time when the sub-prime market was just beginning to collapse. I thought it might be of interest to some of you on this blog, and so I’m posting a slightly different version here. — Clay Sparkman I would like […]
Funds available
Friday, December 7th, 2012Clay Sparkman I think most of you know my company, Fairfield Financial. I just wanted to take a moment to put in a shameless plug, and let you all know that, with the upturn in the real estate economy, we have funds available for commercial loans of all types. Our sweet spot is relatively small […]
The kinds of things we are doing – an example
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012Clay 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 […]
Good news for real estate markets: could this be the actual turn around we've been waiting for?
Monday, November 12th, 2012Clay Sparkman During the past five years we’ve–most of us who make our money in the real estate market (in one way or another)–had a pretty rough time. Certainly, few of us ever anticipated that we were in for a slump of five+ years. And, of course, there have been the false-starts along the way […]
Getting high quality loan submissions that fit your programs via Lendicom
Thursday, October 11th, 2012Clay Sparkman If you are a broker or borrower of real estate secured commercial money, Lendicom may be of particular interest to you. This site is geared toward commercial lending, and allows borrowers and brokers to sign up and submit specific loan proposals to lenders who have also signed up online. Presently we have a database […]
