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The art of the summary

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Clay Sparkman The Art of the Summary Between phone calls, emails, and on-line submissions, we receive a tremendous number of loan requests. It’s pretty common for these loans to have tight deadlines, so here are three ways to speed up the process. 1)      Use the on-line proposal form and provide all the applicable information.  This form […]

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Visualizing the industry

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Clay Sparkman With regard to forward thinking (that is, how is the industry changing?): I thought you might appreciate this article, Private Lending Sector Making Big Noise for Real Estate Investors, by Ben Stoodley: Here Certainly he is correct with regard to his interpretation of current trends, and one must wonder how far this might […]

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Home flipping

Thursday, May 5th, 2016

Clay Sparkman As you know, our sweet spot is for loans to real estate investors. In particular, we do a lot of fix and flip, fix and hold, REO, short sale , and new construction. I feel that this recent Washington Post article, by Justin Pierce, “The four things you need to know to flip […]

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Guest Post: Private Lending—Turning Trash Into Treasure

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Clay Sparkman I came across this blog post by Jeffrey Tesch recently. It was originally posted at cpexecutive.com on October 19, 2015. After working to articulate the various practical issues of private money for many years, I felt that it would be nice to offer a fresh voice/perspective on the matter. I contacted a representative […]

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Prognostication regardiing the real estate marketplace

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

Clay Sparkman Okay, it has been a good nine months since I last posted. Let’s just say it’s a long story. At any rate, I’m back–so expect regular postings going forward. It looks like HML Investments predicts that this is a good time to consider hard money. HML Investments Releases Latest Prognostication Regarding the Real […]

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Fairfield Financial – rehab and construction loans

Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

Clay Sparkman As a follow up to my recent posting (Fairfield Financial – getting to know us), I am posting a similar resource, but one that is dedicated solely to rehab and construction loans. Since this is our sweet spot, I thought it would be appropriate to share this as well. We work with many […]

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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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