Creative Financing for Real Estate Investments
In an historically bad economy like this one, there is no shortage of motivated sellers, which means there is no shortage of opportunities for buyers to get creative with their financing terms. In...
View ArticleProperty Management: What to Look For in a Good Property Manager
You’re ready to hire a property manager to handle your investment property but what should you look for in a property management company? This choice is an important one. After all, you will be...
View ArticleInvestment Real Estate: Caveats of the CAP Rate (Capitalization Rate)
Real estate, like most areas of investing, is all about predicting future value. When using statistics in order to help you predict value, the knowledge of where those statistics come from and how...
View ArticleMutliple Strategies to Make Money in Foreclosures
Dealing in foreclosed homes and buildings can be an excellent avenue for real estate investors to make substantial profits, if the right approaches are employed. A foreclosure occurs when a piece of...
View ArticleReal Estate Investment Lessons from Kids
One of the real oddities of life occurs when kids can—simply put—just do stuff. Have you ever experienced this? You may struggle and struggle to learn a new skill, and you turn to the left and see a...
View ArticleRehab on the Federal Dime with the 203k
Over the course of the past few years, one of the benefits of our otherwise-ravaged economy has been new initiatives from the federal government to provide incentives for consumers of various types....
View ArticleReal Estate Investing: Utilizing Video Tours
If you are someone who is in the business of selling or renting property, and that business requires you to give prospective customers tours of that property (whether infrequently or multiple times...
View ArticleMake Money in a Stabilizing Economy: Real Estate Lease-Options
Many investors are scared away from investing in real estate because of the sensational news stories that depict crying homeowners in front of their foreclosed homes and heated discussions about...
View Article5 Criteria in Purchasing a Residential Investment Property
1. Determine your investment strategy. There are hundreds of strategies you could use with a property, so figure out which one works best. Do you prefer to buy, rehab and hold? Or buy, rehab and then...
View ArticleReal Estate Investing: How to Find a Private Placement Offering
A private placement offering, or private placement memorandum, is a way to secure funds. The reason for the fancy name is that the person securing the funds does not need to be a licensed broker. This...
View ArticleAdvantages of Multi-Unit Investing
There is an age-old debate as to whether it is more cost-effective to invest in single-family homes or multi-unit apartment complexes. As with all types of investment, the more you put down, the more...
View ArticleThe Benefits of a Land Trust
Land Trusts are one of the tools of the real estate trade that are grossly underutilized. This living, revocable trust allows an investor to hold title to a piece of real estate. Since each individual...
View ArticleWhy Invest in Real Estate?
With all the fervor about real estate volatility, the high number of foreclosures and the inability of many homeowners to sell their houses, investing in real estate right now might seem laughable....
View ArticleReal Estate Investing: How to Find Buyers in a Slow Economy
For the real estate investor, finding buyers in a slow economy is often a bigger challenge than finding sellers. Buying a house is a financial investment that some people are afraid to make in a slow...
View ArticleWhere to Find Investment Properties
Sellers of homes employ myriad strategies for advertising their properties to buyers. The trick is to know how to compile all of that information, and where to look to effectively and efficiently find...
View ArticleHow to Evaluate the Climate of Your Local Real Estate Market
There is no catch-all evaluation of current real estate conditions. That is to say, although we hear a lot these days about the “buyers’ market”, it is impossible to utilize one trend as a means of...
View ArticleReal Estate Investment Lessons from Kids
One of the real oddities of life occurs when kids can—simply put—just do stuff. Have you ever experienced this? You may struggle and struggle to learn a new skill, and you turn to the left and see a...
View ArticleNegotiating and Closing: Don’t Give Up!
Most of us in the business of selling real estate are unsatisfied with our ratio of listing presentations to sales. Ideally, we’d all like to sell a house every time we present one, but obviously it...
View ArticleInvestment Property Deal-Breakers: Mistakes that Lose Sales
One of the most frustrating elements of real estate investment is being so close to a sale that you can hear the money being deposited into your account, and then losing it because you failed to make...
View ArticleNegotiating and Closing: Don’t Give Up!
Most of us in the business of selling real estate are unsatisfied with our ratio of listing presentations to sales. Ideally, we’d all like to sell a house every time we present one, but obviously it...
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