Maybe you’ve never heard of private mortgage lending, or you’ve heard of it, but haven’t been able to find information about how it works. That’s because, even though tens of thousands of Americans are already investing in private mortgages, hardly anyone talks about it. And there’s a reason for that: there are a lot of people who don’t want you to know about this investment option!

Lest you think that this is about to become some paranoid, there’s-a-conspiracy of-silence rant, let us explain.

Your investment advisors, retirement plan custodians, and securities brokers won’t tell you about private mortgage lending for a very simple reason: it’s an investment that you make without their help. There’s no “load,” no brokerage fee, no override–and therefore, no way for them to make money. Private mortgages are made outside the “system”–and, as you know, the “system” is how those folks profit.

Your banker doesn’t want you to know about private mortgage lending. That’s because, as a private mortgage lender, you are a competitor for the most profitable product a bank offers–and a dangerous one, at that. As a private individual not bound by all the rules, policies, traditions, and time frames that banks must follow, you can make loans more quickly, more easily, and more flexibly than a conventional lender. This makes you far more attractive than any bank to a certain type of high-volume borrower–and makes you the lender of choice for some of the bank’s best customers.

And your friends and acquaintances whom are already investing in private mortgages don’t really want you to know about them either. That’s because they perceive that there’s a limited demand among borrowers for these types of mortgages. If you jump on the bandwagon and start making these profitable, safe investments, there won’t be enough to go around for them. But trust me; the demand for private mortgages is practically bottomless–and largely untapped.