Clay Sparkman In Part I, I began a discussion of my gripes and likes regarding the private money lending business and various industry related matters, items, and issues. I allowed myself to amble a bit far afield and concluded by mentioning a book about the legal profession which I personally found to be informing and […]
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The private money lending business: likes and gripes (part II)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011The private money lending business: likes and gripes (part I)
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Clay Sparkman Awhile back I published a 3-part post on my Private Money Investor blog regarding my personal likes and gripes as a purveyor in of private money. This has been my sole job for the past 20 years. Who wouldn’t want to go rant and rave publicly about their job? I guess I could […]
The Art of the Summary
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Clay Sparkman and Kris Gilmore Between phone calls, emails, and on-line submissions, most private money lenders/brokers/sources receive a tremendous number of loan requests. It’s pretty common for these loans to have tight deadlines, and so we’d like to suggest three ways to speed up the process when you are submitting a private money loan request […]
Fairfield broker promotion – free iPad UPDATE
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Clay Sparkman We are sending out this update to amend the rules for he iPad giveaway. We accidentally left two items out. We at Fairfield Financial Services (FFS) are pleased to announce our free iPad bonus promotional program AND that we now have sources available to lend with no maximum on commercial loans in all […]
Fairfield broker promotion – free iPad
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Clay Sparkman We at Fairfield Financial Services (FFS) are pleased to announce our free iPad bonus promotional program AND that we now have sources available to lend with no maximum on commercial loans in all 14 of the states that we service. Starting Monday, October 25th, we are offering a free promotional iPad to any […]
Less Grumbly – A Follow-up to 'grumblings of a slum lord in the post-bust environment'
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010This Guest post by Brian Blum, Operating Manager of Maverick Structures LLC, is a follow up to an earlier post Sure, we each have “teams” of lawyers, Realtors, title agencies, finance people, insurance agents, and contractors working with us, but don’t kid yourself – real estate investing is largely an individual sport. Many investors have […]
Calling all rehabbers, short sale buyers and quick flip artists
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010Kris Gillmore and Clay Sparkman Over the past three years we’ve all watched real estate prices come crashing down, in many cases forcing lenders to foreclose and take back the property. Although this is a sad misfortune for some, it is a tremendous opportunity for others. With regard to quick-flip investment property, I have always […]
A view from the other side
Friday, September 17th, 2010Clay Sparkman Over a year ago, well before I started pecking away at this blog, I began blogging about private money and private money issues from the investor perspective. Naturally this blog is called The Private Money Investor. It deals with all aspects of investing in private money loans and hard money loans secured by […]
When life gives you lemons …
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Clay Sparkman I recently posted this article on my investor blog, The Private Money Investor. Even though the article is targeted toward investors who put their money into private money loans, I think it is appropriate to post it here. After all … just look around you … this is where the game is. I […]
The ever elusive lender
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Clay Sparkman If you don’t believe that lenders are getting hard to find, read this article from the New York Times: In Hard Times, One New Bank (Double-Wide). Kind of scary, huh? If you are having trouble finding the ever elusive lenders that you need for your particular client transactions and projects, a web based […]
