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Enjoy The Ride: A Story of Traffic, Stress, and a Great Father’s Day.

by Glenn Schworm on June 17, 2013

James Taylor has a great song titled, the Secret O’ Life. The main lyric is: The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time. In my opinion, not a truer phrase has been spoken. Why does it seem to take us reaching our 40′s to figure that out? Another media reference is from the [...]

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Do Adjustable Mortgage Rates (ARMs) Make Sense?

by Leon Yang June 17, 2013

Today I pulled up a Purchase Rates Assumption from Chase Mortgage just out of curiosity to see what the rates are like today. So this is what I find: 30-yr fixed: 3.875% 15-yr fixed: 3.125% 7/1 LIBOR ARM: 2.875% Agency 5/1 LIBOR ARM: 2.500% Okay, I usually don’t deal with mortgages and I don’t have [...]

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Real Estate Investing

So I Went to a Real Estate Auction

by Kevin Perk June 17, 2013

There was an auction for a couple of investment properties in my area not to long ago and I decided to go and try my hand. I have never had any success buying properties at an auction. Someone always seems to be doing too much at auctions, such as asking for or paying too much. [...]

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Real Estate News & Commentary

Growth Opportunities in Undervalued Markets?

by Harrison Stowe June 17, 2013

While there are questions as to whether or not the housing market in certain metros has grown with unstable speed, there are particular areas that remain promising areas for property investment. Considering that the housing market has been on the rebound for still less than a year, the opportunity for investment gains through intelligent property [...]

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Investor Psychology

How to Never “Work” Another Day In Your Life…

by Michael LaCava June 16, 2013

I had just hit the snooze button for the third time… Although I had a busy day ahead of me which I knew would be good for my business, I dreaded the thought of even getting out of bed and going to work. For some reason that particular morning, I just couldn’t stand the thought [...]

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Investor Psychology

5 Things Dad Taught Me That Made Me the Real Estate Investor I Am Today

by Brandon Turner June 16, 2013

Some might complain that it’s just another “greeting card holiday” but I believe Father’s Day is a time to honor the man in our life who was likely responsible, above all else, for crafting our character, work ethic, and personality. Last month, I wrote about “Five Things my Mom Taught Me that Made me the [...]

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Real Estate Investing

6 Reasons Vacation Rental Investment Is NOT For You

by Matt Landau June 16, 2013

As a vacation rental strategist, most of my work is founded on the basis of positive vacation rental growth: how to improve your performance, how to get more out of your investment, how to enjoy the process. But sometimes, just as important as sharing the positives, is sharing the potential downsides of a serious life [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How Do You Know Who You Can Trust?

by Ali Boone June 15, 2013

The nice thing about this industry is you actually don’t have to trust anyone! This may be true in other industries as well, I haven’t really put much thought into it, but in real estate investing there is very little that you can’t somehow verify. At least in my opinion. We all know the gurus [...]

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Real Estate

The 50% Rule: How to Quickly Analyze a Multifamily Investment Property [Video]

by Brandon Turner June 14, 2013

As if I haven’t caused enough controversy this week (see my recent post Is it a Lie to Tell the Tenant I’m Not The Owner?) today I wanted to make a video explaining something that has caused a good deal of debate over the years here on BiggerPockets: The 50% Rule. In the following video, [...]

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Real Estate News & Commentary

Asian Market Headlines: Stock Markets All Across Asia Plummet as Investors Pull Out Money.

by Joe Salcedo June 14, 2013

Even though In the past year I’ve written extensively about the brewing Asian financial storm, I am typing at my desk right now with a heavy heart, today might be the day when history repeats itself — the 1997 Asian Crisis might have come around us. I was about to leave my office and saw [...]

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BiggerPockets News

New Survey Finds More Investors Plan to Reduce Purchases and Hold Rentals for 5 Years or More

by Steve Cook June 14, 2013

Real estate investors are responding to higher prices by buying fewer properties in the next 12 months and holding their rental properties at least five years or longer, according to a national survey of real estate investors conducted by ORC International for MemphisInvest.com and Premier Property Management Group that was released last week at the [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Excel Macros, No Programmer Needed

by Loretta Steele June 14, 2013

Macros are a time saver. Repetitive tasks can be automated using macros in Excel. Need to format a cell and apply that formatting to multiple cells; a macro can save you some time. Have a special report that is printed each month? Use a macro to automate the printing process. Do you or your company [...]

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Investor Psychology

Don’t Fear ‘the Fear’ in Real Estate Investing … Embrace It!

by Clay Huber June 14, 2013

Fear is a human emotion that gets a bad wrap. People hear the word ‘fear’ and their mind automatically associates it with negative things. In some circumstances, this is valid; however, when it comes to real estate investing, I contend it is invalid! Whether you are already doing real estate investing, or figuring out if [...]

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Real Estate Technology

What Real Estate Technology Do You Really Need When Starting Out?

by Tracy Royce June 13, 2013

I feel like every day I am compelled into reading another blog post about a piece of tech or software that is the “new new” of real estate. I can’t count how many CRM platforms I’ve been pitched, times I’ve been told my phone is too old, or received some email extolling the benefits of [...]

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Retirement

I’m Really Gonna Like Creating This Case Study

by Jeff Brown June 13, 2013

Every now and then I’m reminded in the most visceral of ways how much I love what I do. My favorite example happened many years ago. Long time clients had recently had their first baby, a girl. At the time of this office meeting their daughter was about a week past her second birthday. We’d [...]

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