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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘hard money borrowing’
Announcing: iPad 4 bonus to brokers closing loans with Fairfield
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013Clay Sparkman We at Fairfield Financial Services (FFS) are pleased to announce our free iPad bonus promotional program. Starting Wednesday, May 22nd, we are offering a free promotional iPad 4 to any broker or borrower who submits a loan through FFS that we actually close. The conditions are as follows: (1) You must register with FFS […]
About hard money loans
Monday, May 20th, 2013Clay Sparkman There seems to be a lot of mysticism and confusion surrounding exactly what is meant by private money loans (also referred to as “hard money loans”). The boundaries have blurred a little in the past 10-15 years, but the basic idea of private money lending is that private individuals who have money to […]
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 […]
Loans we are placing – example
Monday, April 8th, 2013S. Clay Sparkman Every now and then I like to present one of the loans that we have placed or are in the process of placing, so that blog readers can see (a) the types of loans that we are placing, and (b) how we feel that loans should be presented. Keep in mind that […]
Reminder: new program for quick flip loans
Friday, April 5th, 2013Clay Sparkman This is a re-post: 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 […]
How to read an appraisal
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Clay Sparkman This article was originally published, on this blog, on 8/9/10. 2 ½ years later, I feel it is worthy to be modified slightly and published again. Whatever you do in the real estate business, I highly recommend that you give this post a good read. The most important thing that you must understand […]
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 […]
