http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases BiggerPockets Real Estate Press Releases http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/175-mississippi-land-for-sale-mossy-oak-properties-honors-top-agent Beth McLellan, owner of Mossy Oak Properties Recreational & Timber Land Sales, LLC stated, "I think the first step to being successful at whatever you do, is to love it. Then you have to be consistent in doing the things you know to do. The most important thing in our business is listings. Yes, sales are down right now, but they will come back. Use this time to get those listings. There are still people out there that are going to buy. You can't sell them what you don't have". Chris Hawley, CEO and Co-Founder of Mossy Oak Properties, Inc. stated, ""The Agent of the Year award is given to the agent that not only produces at a high level, but also one that exemplifies our core values at Mossy Oak Properties. Beth McLellan continues to redefine the role of 'Mossy Oak Properties Land Specialist'. She has a gift for selling high-end recreational tracts throughout her home state of Mississippi, as evidenced by her winning this coveted award two out of the four years she has been a part of our network." Mossy Oak Properties was launched in 2003 to assist landowners, sportsmen, and investors in their pursuit of the perfect piece of property. Since its initial multi-state launch, the Mossy Oak Properties network has grown to more than 56 offices in sixteen states throughout the country. Offices are currently located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. For more information about Beth’s Mississippi property listings please go to www.mississippi-landsource.com/real-estate-agent/ Mossy Oak Properties Recreational & Timber Land Sales, LLC is located at 116 ½ N. Jackson, Kosciusko, MS. If you would like to contact Beth, call 662-289-5334 or email bmclellan@mossyoakproperties.com. http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/175-mississippi-land-for-sale-mossy-oak-properties-honors-top-agent http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/135-mississippi-landsource-com-partners-land-for-sale-in-mississippi-network-with-first-south-farm-credit This partnership between Mississippi-landsource.com and First South Farm Credit in Mississippi has enabled these Associations to embed thousands of searchable farms, ranches, timberland and recreational properties for sale into their websites. Now visitors browsing these websites can search the largest database of rural land listings in Mississippi provided by Mississippi-landsource.com. The majority of Mississippi-landsource.com’s properties are advertised by rural land brokers and real estate agents. This makes the partnership even more beneficial to the association because rural land brokers are the key to driving real estate financing business to the association. Through advertising the rural land brokers’ properties on the First South Farm Credit websites, the association is able to drive buyers to the rural land brokers, who in return will hopefully finance those properties through First South Farm Credit. “The partnership with First South Farm Credit has been a perfect fit, we both share the same objective of providing the best service possible to rural real estate agents and brokers,” said Chuck Magee, of Mississippi-landsource.com, LLC. “We are excited about the increased exposure this partnership will provide our rural real estate agents that use our network to advertise their listings.” Another key aspect of the partnership is the Land Financing Center that has been sponsored on Mississippi-landsource.com’s website. Many of today’s buyers are new to the way rural land loans work compared to residential loans. These Land Financing Centers will assist these buyers in understanding how these rural land loans differ. This partnership with Mississippi-LandSource.com will allow our customers to both find rural real estate and obtain financing information on the same website, Plus it helps generate business for the rural real estate agents and brokers in our area who are key to loan origination. First South Farm Credit is the Farm Credit System’s largest lending institution in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, and the only institution offering uninterrupted loans and financial services since 1933 Mississipppi-landsource.com,LLC. “www.mississippi-landsource.com” is an online real estate marketing service for brokers specializing in Land For Sale In Mississippi. Their network of 64 websites advertises their members’ properties to thousands of monthly visitors. The company was formed in 1999 and is headquartered in McComb, Mississippi http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/135-mississippi-landsource-com-partners-land-for-sale-in-mississippi-network-with-first-south-farm-credit http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/131-the-real-estate-disaster-continues-us-real-estate-investors-strike-back St Louis Jul 27, 2010 – With bank owned real estate becoming an unnerving standard in the US economy, many investors have responded by trying to capitalize on obvious potential, but unfortunately running into unexpected obstacles either from a lack of real estate market knowledge or perhaps from being misinformed by the hundreds of questionable infomercials promising millions to new investors. Mark Bradley, professional property investor, begins his new ‘buy bulk REO properties’ campaign describing what events lead up to his discovery of the profit potential in bulk REO real estate, and how he can help other investors easily find significant profit in bulk REO properties themselves. According to Realty track, the figures below describe the current real estate market: • 1 in every 399 housing units went into foreclosure May 2010 • 322,920 new foreclosures filed. • California, 72,030 foreclosures. • 2,075,563 Foreclosed Homes Nationwide. • 44,623 foreclosure sales may 2010 These figures indicate that, on average, 278,297 bank owned properties currently remain unsold, and over 300,000 new listings will be added to the bank inventory of REO properties each month. Bradley, a commercial and residential real estate investor, comments that on his company website, http://www.ultimatebulkreo.com/, he has posted videos describing his experience of being introduced to the market, and how he has finally found a way investors can take advantage of the back log of bank owned REO properties. To uplift the economy, banks must rid of the excess unpaid mortgages from foreclosures quickly, and have resorted to market-bottom prices, which ideally promise opportunity to real estate investors. The problem investors commonly ran into was an unresponsive market unwilling to purchase the REO properties the investors sunk time and money into. Bradley explains that four years ago, due to mounting tax pressure and suffering from burn out after divesting many real estate properties, running multiple companies, managing 20 to 30 employees within each company, and finding no time for his four children, he chose to downsize from the corporate world to a home office after seeing many TV and Internet ads promising fortunes to those who invested in short sales and foreclosures. As a current real estate professional, he thought that the real estate market decline potentially meant profit and more time with his high school-aged children. Bradley, like many in his shoes said, “If they can make a million dollars with foreclosures, I can too!” With college tuitions looming, and a college fund already depleted to the point where money needed to be acquired immediately, Bradley invested in dozens of short sale books, foreclosure courses, and attended expensive seminars from the most popular foreclosure gurus. Two months into consuming all of the informational resources Bradley found available, the market faced the worst downturn. Bradley started with a few investment deals buying REO properties. “Buying short sales and foreclosures was a lot of work. Emphasize lots!” says Bradley. On top of the work required, Bradley opposed capitalizing on homeowners experiencing distress and devastation. Even though real estate investors were providing assistance when buying REO real estate, being under financial strain with his own children’s tuitions, Bradley sympathized with the fear and frustrations these homeowners experienced. Bradley found himself befriending homeowners and becoming a counselor figure. Unfortunately, he found that counselors didn’t get the property deals. After experiencing the same frustration that many new investors do trying to find the best deals, Bradley grew wary of investing in another property should the market drop another 20%, and he found hesitation in the government’s actions in mortgage intervention. He feared that President Obama would outlaw mortgage interest deduction for homeowners. Suddenly Bradley faced three college tuition deadlines. He had to do something quickly, and he still believed that investing in bank owned real estate had the financial potential he imagined from the beginning. After already having spent tens of thousands of dollars on short sale seminars, courses, and book, Bradley faced financial despair. The short sale guru’s had failed to mention that the millions promised to him “could take up to one year of more to do just one short sale deal and that’s if the planet’s are inline,” says Bradley took an entire new approach instead of focusing on time consuming short sale deals. In the next press release, Bradley describes how he broke down the time consuming short sale business into a 5 steps. If you fail to complete any of these 5 steps it is impossible to make any money in short sales. Get the four video series on how to make $997,323 in equity on one deal with Bulk REO Investing and the 34-page, Top Secret Bulk REO Insider Secrets Profit Guide.go to:http://www.ultimatebulkreo.com/ http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/131-the-real-estate-disaster-continues-us-real-estate-investors-strike-back http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/106-entrepreneurs-incubator-expands-to-arizona The Entrepreneurs Incubator (E-I) has now expanded it's services from Texas to Arizona, and plans to continue expanding into other regions. E-I is a real estate marketing and mentoring company located in Austin, TX. While E-I is not looking to expand it's coaching base outside of the state of Texas, it is looking to expand it's hand written yellow letter marketing campaign for real estate investors to different regions. "Our direct mail programs have yielded a great deal of success, averaging a 14% plus response rate" states Tom Bukacek, Marketing Director for E-I. "This type of marketing works not only in Texas, but all over the U.S., and we look forward to expanding our services nationwide." E-I has clients in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio and now in Phoenix, AZ. "Our company's goal is to help 30-50 families a month avoid foreclosure in Phoenix." states Mark Maly, President of Endurable Property Solutions in Phoenix, AZ. "Yellow letters work effectively, and the ability to outsource the lead list and the time consuming labor to E-I allows us to focus on our customers and negotiate short sales with the banks rather than stuffing envelopes." In addition to handwritten letters, E-I also offers website creation with customized eBooks for credibility and a Lead Management System, which not only allows it's customers to track every call that comes in, but also has a data merge capability. "With the E-I LMS, our customers can organize all their leads, run reports, and print out a purchase contract or entire short sales packet with the click of a button" says Mr. Bukacek. For more information on the Entrepreneurs' Incubator, please visit http://www.entrepreneurs-incubator.com or contact Tom at Tom@Entrepreneurs-Incubator.com. http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/106-entrepreneurs-incubator-expands-to-arizona http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/87-biggerpockets-com-the-real-estate-network-hits-5-member-milestone BiggerPockets has reached the big Five-O! 50 thousand members and growing rapidly throughout the U.S. and dozens of other countries. "This is an exciting time for BiggerPockets," says CEO and founder Joshua Dorkin. "There is a lot of competition for people's attention and time on the web, so when 50,000 members give us a vote of confidence, it shows that we are accomplishing our goal of serving the needs of our audience and that we’ve truly become one of the premier real estate investing platforms on the web." The formula for BiggerPockets.com success, says Dorkin, is pretty simple in some ways: To cater to the interests of real estate professionals, investors, consumers and those just plain curious about how the world of real estate works. The site offers tools to facilitate deal making, networking, education, marketing, and other transactional activities in the real estate realm. "As happy as we are that we have reached this important milestone of 50,000 members, we are not content," Dorkin says. "We are always working on new, innovative products to bring to our extended BiggerPockets family. In the very near future, we will be making some very exciting announcements that will rock the real estate world. Fifty thousand members is not an end point for us; it's a starting point." BiggerPockets is a Denver based company, and a growing number of prominent news organizations and websites have turned to BiggerPockets for the expert advice it can offer. BiggerPockets has been featured by the following news organizations and websites: The New York Times, CBS News Radio, ABC News Radio, The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, Long Island Newsday, USA Today, US News & World Report, Chicago Tribune, MSN Money, Reuters, Fox Business, and Google News. http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/87-biggerpockets-com-the-real-estate-network-hits-5-member-milestone http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/82-site-helps-first-time-buyers-realtors ONE MORE TIME FOR THE HOMEBUYER’S RHYME Homebuyers have cause for joy Their taxes reduced, oh boy! If they rhyme their elation In a Tweet celebration Prizes are theirs to enjoy This can be a great time for American homebuyers. They can earn tax credits and potentially win prizes if they purchase a home before April 30 of this year. Congress has extended the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 until April 30. The act provides a tax credit of up to $8,000 for qualified first-time homebuyers purchasing a principal residence. To celebrate the extension, American Home Shield (AHS), a leader in home service plan protection for homeowners, has launched a new contest in which homebuyers can win up to $4,000 in prizes just by posting a rhyming Twitter message. AHS’s “Twitterick” contest for 2010 invites qualified homebuyers to submit a rhyme on Twitter. The rhyme should describe your home buying experience and be written in the style of a limerick. Complete rules are available at AHS newly revised website, www.firsthomeexperience.com. AHS sponsored a Twitterick contest for homebuyers in 2009. The winner was Chris Swanson of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For those who may struggle with poetry, American Home Shield offers a second way to win. Simply go online and update your Twitter status with a specific message that is available on the FirstHomeExperience website and you’ll be eligible for a weekly random drawing for a $100 Sears gift card. No purchase is necessary but you must be at least 18 years old to win. In addition to contest information, homebuyers who go to the website can obtain lots of great information about buying a house, as well as money-saving coupons and special offers. About American Home Shield American Home Shield helped found the home warranty industry in 1971 and remains an industry leader in home service plans, servicing 1.3 million customers across 49 states. The Memphis-based company operates three customer service centers, employs over 1,800 employees and over 11,000 approved, independently insured contractors nationwide. American Home Shield is part of the ServiceMaster family of brands, one of the world’s largest and most versatile service networks. The company’s brands include TruGreen, TruGreen LandCare, Terminix, American Home Shield, ServiceMaster Clean, Merry Maids, Furniture Medic, and AmeriSpec. http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/82-site-helps-first-time-buyers-realtors http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/71-upgraded-real-estate-investing-websites-unveiled A real estate investing and website firm, RealEstateInvestorsWebSites.net has rolled out an upgraded version of their real estate investing websites - http://www.realestateinvestorswebsites.net . Being interactive and fully database-driven, the websites are adaptable to suit any real estate investing business model such as buying houses, selling houses, flipping houses, attracting private money lenders or any other business model. Since most real estate investors are not advanced internet users, the websites are controlled from a simple back office including changing designs, content, business model, among others. The front end needs no maintenance. Having 122 customizable designs, real estate investors can now have a fully customized website unique to their business with in-built automation and follow-up email autoresponders as well as squeeze pages (landing pages) for targeted marketing. “Our daily goal is to deliver the most effective, results-driven, feature-packed real estate investor websites at prices all real estate investors can afford.” With the life-like video virtual spokesperson on the websites, the websites present a down-to-earth simple, believable sales message designed to convert prospects to closed deals. Most importantly, the websites are delivered fully optimized for search engines and come with an integrated fully optimized Wordpress blog that notifies major search engines whenever fresh content is posted. The blog also notifies other content syndication blogs that re-print people’s content so they may re-print posted content thereby automatically creating back links to the websites, boosting search engine rankings. For more information visit: http://www.realestateinvestorswebsites.net/ http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/71-upgraded-real-estate-investing-websites-unveiled http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/70-tx-real-estate-jobs-region-realty-unveils-1-commission-program-for-texas-realtors-in-dallas-fort-worth-and-houston- Region Realty, has started a 'Realty Revolution' in the industry, that will soon have the larger franchise companies rethinking their recruiting strategies. Rodney McNabb is the designated broker and President of Region Realty. "Coming from a background in the U.S. Marine Corps, I believe in taking care of those on the front lines," McNabb says. "In real estate, those on the front lines are the agents themselves. They are the ones out there beating the street for leads, spending their own personal money marketing properties as well as driving clients around town. As the president of the company, I treat my agents as my clients. They are the ones that I need to take care of. I believe that if I take care of my clients, the agents will take care of their clients." Region Realty is a full-service real estate agency. They focus on residential real estate sales, leasing and property management. "Being a 'one-stop-shop' allows us to take care of our clients no matter how they might need us", says McNabb. "In some cases, many of the services actually run together. For example, we work with many real estate investors. For these investors, we help them purchase properties, lease them out and then we manage the property for them. And when it is time to sell, we sell it for them as well. We are in this for the long haul", McNabb says. "We don't want a single transaction and then have the client forget about us. We are in the relationship-building business." Our Texas Realtors are also specialists, says McNabb. "Some specialize in distressed properties (such as foreclosures and short sales), some specialize in working with first time home buyers, and others specialize with luxury homes." Expansion from the Dallas / Fort Worth area to Houston is just the first step. The company plans to open additional offices in other major cities of Texas, to include San Antonio and Austin. "And it won't stop with the major metropolitan areas," McNabb says. "We have goals - and one of our mid-term goals is to have agents throughout the entire State of Texas. From there, who knows where our work will take us. We may sound aggressive in our plans," McNabb says, "but we want to grow soundly and remain financially secure. We have seen other companies grow too quickly, and we will not be one of those." "If you are looking for Dallas Realtors or Houston Realtors," McNabb says, "you should look no further than one of our trusted agents." If you are a Texas Real Estate Agent, joining Region Realty may not be your only option out there, but I believe that it is the best. You can learn more about their 100% commission real estate program by visiting www.TxRealEstateJobs.com http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/70-tx-real-estate-jobs-region-realty-unveils-1-commission-program-for-texas-realtors-in-dallas-fort-worth-and-houston- http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/69-commercial-loan-modifications-the-solution-to-foreclosure Tһе problem іѕ tһаt tһіѕ trend іѕ bound tο remain fοr a long time bесаυѕе οf tһе recession. It іѕ аƖѕο feared bу many experts tһаt tһе next bubble tһаt cουƖԁ burst аftеr residential housing will bе income-generating real estate. It іѕ therefore expected tһаt tһеrе wіƖƖ bе a rise іח tһе number οf industrial loan modifications аחԁ οtһеr forms οf commercial mortgage renegotiation’s. Iח a commercial loan modification, tһе owner negotiates wіtһ tһе bank οr lender fοr a restructuring οf tһе terms οf tһе mortgage. Tһіѕ сουƖԁ result іח tһе reduction οf tһе monthly amortization οr tһе lengthening οf tһе period οr term. Tһіѕ wіƖƖ provide tһе owner, wһісһ mау bе аח individual οr a corporation, wіtһ a chance tο recover frοm tһе temporary financial hardship аחԁ avoid foreclosure. Tһе lender οr bank οftеח times is willing tο agree tο a commercial loan modification bесаυѕе tһеу ԁο חοt want tο hold οח tο a property tһаt wουƖԁ bе very hard tο sell due tο tһе recession. Moreover, tһе situation іѕ ƖіkеƖу tο worsen аѕ tһеѕе mortgages reach maturity bесаυѕе owners аrе חοt ƖіkеƖу bе аbƖе tο come up wіtһ tһе еחԁ-οf-term balloon payments. 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Call Larry Wilkes today for a FREE consultation on your commercial property at (888) 317-4374 or visit us at www.titancommercialmodifications.com http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/69-commercial-loan-modifications-the-solution-to-foreclosure http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/66-mortgage-broker-offers-free-appraisal-credit Any borrower registering with Dream Home Financing this month by requesting a free rate quote will receive a credit at closing of up to $400 to cover (some or all) of the appraisal costs. Take the time to complete the free rate quote request form and then review the rest of the site to learn about the loan process. Some other features to review while you are there... Simply go to http://www.dreamhomefinancing.com Loan Shopping Guide FAQ Closing Costs Loan Options Mortgage Trends * Must receive the rate quote request by the end of the month. * Loan must close by April 1, 2010 * Only loans closing with Dream Home Financing are eligible 12/6/09 http://www.biggerpockets.com/press_releases/66-mortgage-broker-offers-free-appraisal-credit