June 2008
Financing Real Estate by Ted Karsch | June 30, 2008As I stress time and time again to new apartment building investors, before making an offer on any apartment building real estate property be sure that the investment will be a profitable one. Banks and commercial mortgage lenders will only lend money on an apartment building that has a Debt Service Coverage Ratio of at [...]
Real Estate Investing by Richard Warren | June 30, 2008One piece of advice that is frequently offered to those wishing to invest in real estate is to join a local real estate investment club. Okay, now what? While taking that first step to actually attend a club meeting is great, it is only the beginning. To make it a worthwhile endeavor requires some effort on [...]
Flipping Houses by Troy Schuricht | June 29, 2008You may have heard recently that this is a great time to purchase investment property. One reason for this is because you can now “cash flow” them again. That sounds like a pretty good idea, but what does that really translate into? What really makes this a better time to buy and hold investment property [...]
Financing Real Estate by Rob K. Blake | June 29, 2008I love reading other folks’ stories discovering how they got into real estate investing. Everybody’s path is unique and entertaining. Reading the BiggerPockets forum this week, there was a thread on exactly that and it gave me the idea for this article. In the vein of “still getting to know each other”, I thought my [...]
Foreclosures by Jim Watkins | June 28, 2008In 2005, I bought a house at the Dallas County auction for a California investor friend who asked me to bid in his place. With the help of a Mentoring student, Gloria Stephens, I was given valuable information about the current owner. What type of person she was and whether or not she would willingly [...]
Economy by Tom Koziol | June 27, 2008I don’t want to come across as a crepe hanger but it seems to me those of us who are in the foreclosure trenches have at least a semblance of a handle on the what Mr. and Mrs. America are actually facing. Even if you aren’t in the foreclosure trenches you know the number one [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | June 26, 2008On Saturday at my local REIA meeting (everyone should be going to ALL of the REIA meetings in your area), I was talking with an investor who had received a nasty phone call from a homeowner who was not happy that they received a letter in the mail. They wanted this investor to know that [...]
Real Estate by Joshua M. Marks, Esq. | June 25, 2008An investor (who I will call “Phil”) recently contacted me with a situation that arises from his successful bid at an estate auction for a single-family home. Similar to most estate auctions, the auction participants had approximately one hour only to look through the property prior to the commencement of the auction. As you can [...]
Foreclosures by Charles Feldman | June 25, 2008It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—in July–for distressed homeowners. IF–if–a rescue plan just voted on in the Senate by a vote of 83-9 can avoid a Bush veto and be restructured to please the White House, the Congress, the lenders and, oh yes, the homeowners! Experts making educated guesses think all that is [...]
Real Estate Investing by Mike Farmer | June 24, 2008I guess the scariest thing about investing is not knowing for sure. Many have written about the best ways to minimize risk and create a system whereby an investor has the best chance of succeeding and maximizing ROI, yet, there is always still risk. Even the best planned investment can go sour. We can almost predict [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | June 24, 2008The decision to buy an apartment building investment for the first time can be a fearful experience for many real estate investors. The task of owning and managing an apartment building can seem overwhelming and the feeling of fear usually is due to the unknown factor of the “what ifs”.
Landlord Tenant by Rob K. Blake | June 23, 2008As a young boy, I was lucky to have some great mentors. My grandmother is one of the best business teachers I’ve ever had and before I get too deep (which I will in future articles) into the financial analysis of real estate investing, mortgage financing, and other “on target” topics, I thought it best [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Richard Warren | June 23, 2008 Hoisted by their own petard! This 16th century expression is an apt description of what happened to both lenders and borrowers in the recent mortgage meltdown and burst real estate bubble. A petard was a crude explosive device used in medeival times to breach castle walls and doors. These bombs would frequently blow up [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Rob Powell | June 22, 2008Hello from the metropolis of Cedar Crest, NM. I am getting ready to take twenty kids from my youth group up to Durango, CO for the Christ In Youth Conference (www.CIY.com). I think I am more excited than my high school kids are…..it is always a blast. I am so grateful for commercial real estate [...]
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | June 21, 2008It has been a long time coming . . . We just launched a MAJOR FACELIFT to BiggerPockets! For years, people have been using our site to do everything from finding tools and resources, to discussing real estate, to making deals, to selling property, etc. We’ve just made it easier to do several of these [...]
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