Clay Sparkman I am pleased and excited today to launch one of the most comprehensive and competitive commercial programs that we have ever been in a position to offer. The basic parameters of this program are as follows: The program covers multifamily, mobile home parks, industrial, office, retail, developed land, raw land, and construction Coverage […]
Posts Tagged ‘Commercial loans’
Announcement: Launch of exciting new commercial program
Monday, September 9th, 2013Flexibility and creativity: the beauty of private money loans
Monday, June 17th, 2013Clay Sparkman This post was originally published on this site on July 6th. 2010. I feel that the information within is so important to a full understanding of private money flexibility and creativity, that I modified the document, bringing it up to date, and am publishing it here now once again. Our private money lending […]
Good news for real estate investors
Thursday, May 30th, 2013Clay Sparkman Well, if this isn’t good news, I don’t know what is: http://us.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=9562167 It appears that now is the time to be investing in real estate and real estate loans. We finally have a turn-around market that might actually be *real* and might actually be steady. Let’s hope it keeps going this way. There […]
Minding the gap
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Clay Sparkman It is our opinion and the opinion of many others that banks, though they’ve bounced back in certain areas, have not picked up the slack when it comes to funding rehab, construction, and development loans. I have been on about this before, so I won’t go into great detail here. I think that […]
Loan sits on desk: how the heck do I place it?
Thursday, April 18th, 2013Clay Sparkman If you are having trouble finding the ever elusive lenders that you need for your particular client transactions and projects, a web based tool known as Lendicom.com may be of interest to you. The site is geared toward commercial lending (including construction, project, and development loans), and allows borrowers and brokers to sign […]
Some private money blogs which look pretty good to me
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013Clay Sparkman If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am pretty much constantly scanning the internet for resources and materials that might be of value to my readers. Recently I came across several private money blogs that look to be quite good. I’d like to share those with you. The first […]
What the media is saying about private money markets
Thursday, March 14th, 2013S. Clay Sparkman I spend plenty of time cruising the web for interesting articles that are relevant to the current state of hard money lending, brokering, and borrowing. I don’t always agree with everything I find, but it is useful to evaluate varying points of view, and I certainly wouldn’t pass along any article that […]
Web based resources for the private money professional (re-post)
Friday, February 22nd, 2013Clay Sparkman I originally published this article in January of 2010. Two years later, I think it is as useful as ever. Thus the re-post (for those who missed it the first time around). Today I will focus on a few web based tools that I have found to be useful in the business. Let’s […]
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 […]
