Blackburne & Sons Realty Capital Corporation

06/17/2026

Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in the UK. It commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the early 1600s, England was a Protestant nation. A group of English Catholics, frustrated by ongoing religious persecution and restrictions, hatched a conspiracy to assassinate the king and destroy much of the Protestant ruling class.

The plot was led, in part, by Guy Fawkes, who had military experience because he had fought in the Spanish Netherlands and had expertise with explosives. The Catholic conspirators rented a cellar beneath the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster. Over months, they smuggled in 36 barrels of gunpowder (enough to destroy the building). The goal was to blow up Parliament during the State Opening on November 5, 1605, killing the king, his family, and many Protestant lords and MPs. They hoped this would spark a Catholic uprising and install a Catholic monarch.

The plot was betrayed by an anonymous letter from one of the conspirators' relatives warning a Catholic lord to stay away from Parliament. Authorities searched the cellars and arrested Guy Fawkes, on the night of November 4–5, 1605, while he was guarding the explosives. Fawkes later managed to jump to his death. Most of the other conspirators were caught, tortured, and finally hanged, drawn, and quartered. Other than that, they really enjoyed the play. (Haha!).

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06/17/2026

I once had a friend who had a job circumcising elephants. The pay was lousy, but the tips were huge. [Awful just awful. Haha.] Submit your commercial loan to 750 lenders for free. We add, on average. four new banks or credit unions to C-Loans every day. https://hubs.la/Q04k-BZX0

06/17/2026

The Navy Is Getting Ready to Build a Battleship

The U.S. Navy plans to build the Trump-class battleships, nuclear-powered combatants designed for high-end warfare capabilities, starting in 2028.

06/16/2026

This week I drove three miles down Pendleton Pike, a long commercial strip in a blue collar, lower-middle-income area of Indianapolis. I saw almost 300 individual storefronts. Every single one of them was OCCUPIED, even in the tired, old, giant shopping centers. (Okay, I saw one vacant unit in the far corner of a big center.) I didn't see a single For Lease sign, not even on that one vacant unit. [Wow, this can't be bad.] Consider investing in first mortgage notes, with note rates of 10% to 12%, secured by small commercial properties. You choose the deal, and if follow our advice, you will invest $10,000 to $25,000 in a bunch of different deals diversified across the country. Founded 46 years ago, Blackburne & Sons is probably the oldest trust deed company in America. https://hubs.la/Q04lxkZ-0

06/16/2026

Q: How do you find Will Smith in the snow?
A: You look for the fresh prints.
[Chuckle. Personally, I think Will Smith had every right to slap that rude comedian. If someone attacked my own lovely wife...]
Blackburne & Sons is hungry for small, remote, or unusual commercial real estate loans. https://hubs.la/Q04l01cQ0

06/15/2026

You know you're a horse person when...
You cluck to your car when you go up a hill.
[Chuckle. We had a sweet mare, Lady, who lived to be 37 years old.]
Kinda important. We are adding at least four new banks to https://hubs.la/Q04kSLpc0 every single day.

06/14/2026

Dad Joke Alert: (You've been warned, haha.)
Q: What’s blue and smells like red paint?
A: Blue paint
[Actually kinda funny]
During the last three great recessions (the S&L Crisis, the Dot-Com Meltdown, and the Great Recession), a lot of stocks went to zero. When you invest in one of our 11% first trust deeds, your investment is secured by a specific piece of commercial real estate. You choose the deal. We have been selling and servicing our own first trust deeds for 46 (!!) years. Download and scan our free book (extended booklet) about first trust deeds. When the next great recession hits, you are going to kick yourself for not having at least 10% of your portfolio in real-estate-secured first mortgages. First trust deeds are where my own dough is invested. https://hubs.la/Q04kbsbS0

06/13/2026

Four guys are hanging out. One of them says, “Hey, did you know 1 out of ever 4 guys is gay?” Larry says, “I hope it’s Chuck because he’s really cute.” [Chuckle. Not that there's anything wrong with that (from a famous Seinfeld episode.] Submit your commercial loan to 750 hungry commercial lenders for free using C-Loans. We are adding four new banks to https://hubs.la/Q04k8w0-0 every business day. Four! Per day!

06/12/2026

So there are two whales at a bar. The first whale says to the second (make whale noises until everyone is a little uncomfortable). Then the second whale says back to the first (inhale sharply), "Go home Frank. You're drunk." [Haha! Who thinks of these jokes???]. Commercial construction costs have skyrocketed, but the appraisals we are seeing are not that much higher than they were before COVID. This arguably means that an 11%, 60% LTV first trust deed might be much less risky today than the LTV would suggest. Look around. Do you see a lot of vacant small commercial properties? I certainly don't. https://hubs.la/Q04k8bZq0

06/11/2026

My dog is a rescue, which is a really self-righteous way of saying I bought a used dog. [Haha! They are all good boys.]. We make a lot of commercial loans on commercial condo's, trailer parks, restaurants, and odd mixed use properties. https://hubs.la/Q04k7_M60