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Flipping House #8: The "After" Pictures

Thought you all might enjoy the pictures of the finished project on our latest flip

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House #8: Fix and Flip "Before" Pictures

The before pictures of my latest rehab property.

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Using Hard Money To Buy and Fix Investment Property

Hard Money is a type of loan that is generally used by real estate investors to purchase and repair a piece of real estate. Lenders are mostly small companies or private individuals...

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Real Estate By The Numbers - Understanding Closing Costs

Closing costs are those costs associated with the purchase of a home or investment property. They are paid at the closing of escrow. For the typical home buyer who is...

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Three Ways to Give Housing Market a Lift - WSJ.com

What more can be done to help the housing market? Economists have some ideas for hastening a recovery.

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Vacant Houses-New Pilot Program | Louisville Gals

Vacant houses have become the “plague” of many neighborhoods in this country because of the high level foreclosures. It was announced last week that the federal government hopes to launch a pilot program to covert government owned foreclosures int...

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Real Estate Firm Proves Successful in Slow Market

Memphis Invest, a leader in the burgeoning turn-key real estate investment industry, announced today that it more than doubled its business last year with a 60-percent increase in home sales on behalf of its investors during 2011 compared to 2010.

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Apart Vacancies Decline to Decade Low as Rental Rates Climb

U.S. apartment vacancies dropped to a 10-year low in the fourth quarter, allowing for rent increases that are likely to continue this year, Reis Inc. said.

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Toni's Take on Real Estate: Connections Come Full Circel

Toni's Take, Huffington post: I'm all about making connections. I've been networking my entire life -- I'm not kidding when I say I started networking in elementary school -- and funnily enough it's all come full circle.

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American Realty again tries control RE investment trust

American Realty Capital has fired a second salvo in a hostile takeover bid for Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc., a non-traded real estate investment trust that is in flux.

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Tax incentives for real estate investors

Solid Article. Emphasizes why we do what we do.

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Which Home Improvement Projects Offer the Best Returns

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Basics of Real Estate Wholesaling

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Finding Balance | Louisville Gals Real Estate Blog

Balance is a tough thing to come by for a lot of us. We can get so focused on our goals and our business that we completely put aside fun activities and the “rest of our life” that doesn’t involve our work.

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Soaring student loan debt to boost rentals | Inman News

Perspective: Real estate's December report card. Student loan debt now totals $865 billion, which is greater than all credit card debt outstanding, as well as all other types of household debt except for mortgages.College graduates have debt ave...

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Our Next House Flipping Project: House #8

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Should You Become a Landlord?

A look at how many are forced into becoming landlords and how those people should prepare themselves.

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Deal or No Deal? | Louisville Gals Real Estate Blog

How do you determine if a house is really a deal? I believe that you just have to “dissect the facts” and the answer will reveal itself.

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Cash Flow for Two Years with No Money Down

I am not certain what my yield is on this deal, but one thing is for certain--with NOTHING invested, it's good enough! Thanks again, Lonnie Scruggs, for allowing me to quit my day job.

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Make Money Real Estate | Make Money Flipping a House

The final analysis on our latest house flipping project

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