Clay Sparkman Any good real estate investor should be attempting to assess whether property values are rising, falling, or holding in the area of his/her latest potential investment. After all, the core question when buying investment property (particularly short-term) is, “what is value likely to do in the next year or so?” If you sense […]
Posts Tagged ‘trust deed investing’
Five potentially useful indicators of the likely movement of value
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017Trust deed lending – ten mistakes you should never make and ten mistakes you must never make
Thursday, March 28th, 2013I first published this post on The Private Money Investor Blog on Dec 19, 2009. It is clearly directed toward a private money investor audience. However, from time to time, I like to post articles on this blog which give more of that particular perspective. If you really wish to understand the private money lending […]
Where do you go to learn about private money?
Friday, January 11th, 2013I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked by prospective private money investors, “Where do I go to learn more about this? Where are the books? Where are the articles? where are the websites” I have generally had to shrug my shoulders and say, “You know, I don’t know.” I can’t tell […]
Private Money – The Rules of Physics May Not Apply
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012This article was published in The Scotsman Guide as “2 Private-Money Myths: Debunked” back around the time when the sub-prime market was just beginning to collapse. I thought it might be of interest to some of you on this blog, and so I’m posting a slightly different version here. — Clay Sparkman I would like […]
A private money loan prospectus – Hood Canal, Washington
Monday, September 24th, 2012Clay Sparkman (In October of 2011, I posted this item on my Private Money Investor blog. I thought it might be useful to brokers as well—the idea being so that you may (a) see how we present loans to our internal working investors, (b) gain perspective on our entire private money loan process, from start […]
Resources – show me the good stuff!
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Clay Sparkman I have long searched for resources that might be useful to those who wish to learn more about private money and hard money loans, and in the process I have become increasingly convinced that our particular niche field is somewhat of an intellectual/informational wasteland. Every time I stumble upon an article or site […]
The private money lending business: likes and gripes (part III)
Friday, February 4th, 2011Clay Sparkman I finished Part II with a brief mention of something I quite like about the trust deed system: that is, the option (generally available) to foreclose judicially. Before moving on, I’d like to offer you a crude little decision tree which shows how investors might go about making the decision whether to foreclose […]
The private money lending business: likes and gripes (part II)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Clay 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 […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
