Blackburne & Sons Realty Capital Corporation

06/26/2026

Dad Joke Warning:
Q: Why does a chicken coop only have 2 doors?
A: 'Cause if it had four doors, it'd be a chicken sedan!
[Cute. Of course, you'll have to explain to the kiddies what a coupe and a sedan really are.]
When the stock market finally peaks and crashes, it may be the money that you have in small, low-yielding first trust deeds, secured by small commercial properties diversified around the country, that allows you to sleep at night. https://hubs.la/Q04lTRlz0

06/25/2026

Otter cafes are all the rage in Japan. Visitors pay a fee for timed sessions to interact with, feed, pet, and play with Asian small-clawed otters. The extremely friendly critters climb up on you, begging for pets. A grinning American woman described her experience as, "The best money she has ever spent as an adult." You may recall my story about the depressed and lonely orangutans during COVID. (No humans with which to interact.) A kindly groundskeeper opened the stone stream barrier between the adjoining enclosures, and soon the irascible otters were playing constantly with the now much-happier orangutans. I saw a video of one huge, pseudo-grumpy male with an otter in his lap, one swirling about his feet, and a third sitting on his head. Hence the expression, "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." [Heart-warming] Blackburne & Sons loves to finance pot properties, gentlemen's clubs, bars, restaurants, old trailer parks, strip commercial centers, mixed use properties, weird properties, and old industrial buildings. https://hubs.la/Q04lpkfh0

06/24/2026

Q: Why was the l***r hockey game cancelled?
A: There was a face off in the corner.
[I know, I know, just awful. But I'm still laughing.]
In the time you could spend trying to close a $20 million commercial loan wth some sleepy, indifferent bank - fetching huge stacks of documents - you could close six or seven small commercial real estate loans with Blackburne & Sons. Our loan officers are on commission. It's like a profitability competition between communism and capitalism. My money is on capitalism. https://hubs.ly/Q04lg8wK0

06/23/2026

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [Clever. They are indeed all good boys.] I wonder if economic historians will someday point to the SpaceX IPO and say, "That was clearly the top of this 29-year bull market in stocks." Consider instead 60% LTV first mortgages on small commercial properties with note rates of 10% to 12%. Since 1980. That's 46 years. https://hubs.la/Q04lgx--0

06/22/2026

Naughty Alert: I arranged a th*****me over the weekend. Had two no-shows, but I still had fun. [Shaking my head] Submit your commercial real estate loan to 750 hungry commercial lenders in just four minutes for free using C-Loans. Lots of new lenders. https://hubs.la/Q04m5VWv0

06/21/2026

This World Cup has been a surprise, pleasure, and blast. A number of different European spectators arrived, expecting the worst, having been told by their press that Americans were rude and lazy. They found us warm, courteous, and fun-loving. The visitors can't get enough of the huge meat departments in our football-stadium-sized grocery stores. A Frenchman said he would gladly trade his left croissant for more brisket. Ranch dressing - OMG, our overseas visitors can't stop devouring and praising it. Haha! The Scots, who played in Boston, are having the most fun of all. Two hundred of them in a Boston bar spontaneously stood on tables and chairs and started singing, "Take Me Home, Country Roads." The US Men's Team sang the song after their win in Seattle. The whole stadium! Told they mustn't walk around drunk in public, the Scots rented four adjoining tied-up ferries and partied "at sea". After this, whenever someone looks up the term, "fun loving," it will read, "The Scots in Boston visiting for the World Cup". Hey, my jolly Scottish friend, you have a little ranch dressing on your cheek. [Haha!]. Blackburne & Sons makes small, remote, and unusual commercial real estate loans. https://hubs.la/Q04m5pZH0

06/21/2026

Naughty Alert: Two hobos were walking down the tracks. They encounter a mangy old dog sitting in the middle of the tracks, contorted into that weird position and licking his nuts. One hobo says wistfully, “Gee, I wish could do that.” His companion replies, “Well, maybe you should start by petting him first.” [Shameful. Haha] When you apply to a bank for a commercial real estate loan, that banker is on salary. Yawn. When you apply to Blackburne & Sons, my loan officers are on commission and ravenous. https://hubs.la/Q04lg8Ny0

06/20/2026

A guy is in a doctors office. His doctor is there with him. "I have two pieces of bad news," the doctor says. "What are they?" "Well, the first piece of news is that you have cancer." "What's the 2nd piece of news?" he asks. "Well, the 2nd piece of bad news is that you have Alzheimer's." The man laughs and says, "Well, at least I don't have cancer." [Haha]. Come back to https://hubs.la/Q04lfX--0 and apply to the 100 NEW commercial real estate lenders that we added in the past two weeks. They are all banks and credit unions.

06/20/2026

Today I learned that lousy means lice-infested. [Huh. I learned something.] Blackburne & Sons loves tiny commercial real estate loans because they pay better during great recessions. My goal in life has always been to pass my company on to my two fine, Eagle Scout sons. That means that Blackburne & Sons needs to survive the 45% real estate crashes that hit every ten to twelves years (now very past due). These small commercial loans usually just keep paying. Please find us some more small commercial deals. https://hubs.la/Q04k_Xvv0

06/18/2026

Those Creepy Guy Fawkes Masks - What's the Story?

Explore the history of Guy Fawkes and the evolution of his iconic mask from a failed plot to a symbol of resistance and protest worldwide.