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We’re going to talk about how to get investors to come to you—one post at a time. Specifically, how to raise capital using social media. Hard or Private Lender? Manage all your loans with ease. Lendr allows you to manage your entire lending business from one place. Get started Learn more → This was the […]

Travel, Connection & Mastermind Format These might be some of my favorite podcast episodes because I get to share everything I learned at the HMB Mastermind I attended in Charleston last week. It was like drinking from a fire hydrant—complete information overload in the private lending space. They put you in a room with 40 […]

1. Automation, Credit, and Team Roles We’ve been cooking over at Lendr. Absolutely cooking. For the past two months, we’ve had our heads down, rolling out new updates nonstop—new features, powerful enhancements, and just a lot of really cool tools that are going to transform the way you run your lending business. Hard or Private […]

Section 1: Life Updates & Lendr Growth Before I advise you to raise your prices as a private lender, I want to take a minute to give you some personal context because we’ve been busy—really busy—and that’s a great thing. On the personal front, we had a big shift: we officially moved from Idaho, where […]

We are building off off last week’s conversation, where we addressed some listener questions about setting up a fund. I thought it would be helpful to dive deeper into some of the errors I made when I was setting up my own fund and filing the Form D with the SEC. I want to take […]

 This week, I received an email from a listener named Abel. Abel—if you’re listening—thank you for reaching out. He is in the lending space and is considering starting a fund and had a ton of smart questions, which I think will benefit a lot of other podcast listeners. We ended up hopping on a […]

Managing Taxes in Private and Hard Money Lending Right now, it is mid-March 2025. I really hope that you’ve already filed your taxes for the 2024 tax year. However, I briefly wanted to discuss how we handle all of the different taxes and documents associated with a private and hard money lending company. There are […]

I want to talk about why we ultimately decided to start Lendr, our loan origination and servicing tool, which, as we do this podcast, we promote pretty heavily. But there’s a strategic reason behind why we decided to start this software company in addition to running our own private lending company. Hard or Private Lender? […]

This is short, sweet, and straight to the point—but it packs a powerful punch and a valuable lesson I had to learn. This is something that comes with experience, but it’s helped me a lot as a hard money lender. Hard or Private Lender? Manage all your loans with ease. Lendr allows you to manage […]

Let’s talk briefly about one of the biggest changes we’re making to Holbrook Capital in 2025. If you go back to episode four, we discussed whether or not lenders should collect monthly payments. I’ll give a quick recap of what we were doing at the time, why I preferred not collecting payments, and the changes […]