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The big stretch – repost

Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Clay Sparkman This article was originally posted at this site in August of 2010. I feel that these essential points are so important for those seeking creative ways to get deals done that I felt I should post it again (I have made some modifications to the original article so as to bring the facts […]

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Private money – another perspective

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

Clay Sparkman I thought this was a nice piece on private money and finding sources, by Brian Kline. How to find Money Partners for Real Estate Investing As the real estate markets are improving, the opportunities revealing themselves, and the bank rates coming up–it seems like private money is becoming, once again, more relevant ever […]

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Flexibility and creativity: the beauty of private money loans

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Clay 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 […]

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Good advice for real estate fixer and flippers and their associates

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

Clay Sparkman As most of you know, my company (Fairfield Financial Services, LLC) does many kinds of private money loans, but our true sweet spot, I would have to say, is fix and flip properties (or fix and rent). We feel that this is a great time to be buying REO, short sale, and under […]

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Good news for real estate investors

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Clay 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 […]

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Minding the gap

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

Clay 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 […]

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Loan sits on desk: how the heck do I place it?

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Clay 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 […]

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What the media is saying about private money markets

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

S. 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 […]

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Web based resources for the private money professional (re-post)

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Clay 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 […]

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Quick flipping

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

Clay Sparkman As you probably know, we work with a lot of people who are doing quick flip properties/projects. That means: buying low, generally fixing up (though not always), and then selling fast, at a fair price, for a nifty profit. Until now, we have made many such loans, and we have done so as […]

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