February 2009

Leverage: Friend or Foe?

by Richard Warren | February 9, 2009

On the surface, real estate is a terrible investment. With rental properties you have to deal with tenants, vacancies, maintenance and repair, insurance, taxes and so on. It is definitely high maintenance when compared to stocks, bonds or other investments. The rate of return isn’t so great either. If you pay $100,000 for a property [...]

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BiggerPockets News

BiggerPockets.com Featured in Today’s Denver Post

by Joshua Dorkin | February 8, 2009

As proof that we continue to provide a needed service to the online real estate space, the press has once again come to write about our site. BiggerPockets.com got a great featured writeup in today’s (Sunday) Denver Post (with a nice photo of yours truly!) that we hope you’ll check out: Real estate investors at [...]

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Economy

Real Estate Down Payment: Gone in 60 Seconds?

by Meghan Busch | February 8, 2009

So, a few weeks back I wrote a post “How Far Down Can My Savings Go For a Down Payment” discussing just how much first-time home buyers need to have in the bank for a down payment. And I received a few great comments. One in particular asked, “What happened to 15 – 20% equity…?” This [...]

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Commentary

Will The Feds Nationalize Bank of America?

by Rob K. Blake | February 7, 2009

There is a plethora of speculations buzzing around Wall Street with the central theme being Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) our nation’s largest bank…and biggest “cleaner upper” of the financial crises buying both Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Home Loans before they collapse…is going to get “taken over” by the government. Oh my God! The sky [...]

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Real Estate

Saving Money With a Home Energy Audit

by Brendan O'Brien | February 7, 2009

Although my personal home is only eight years old, I’ve known for a while that it’s not as energy-efficient as it could be. My heating bills aren’t outrageous, but they could be lower. Also, as you walk around my house, you can feel the cold spots. My son’s room is the coldest bedroom in the [...]

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Economy

Geither to Announce Bailout Plan Monday – Will Credit Start Flowing Again Soon?

by Joshua Dorkin | February 6, 2009

According to the AP, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is set to give a major speech on Monday to outline the $700 billion rescue plan. As a part of any bailout package we’ll see, the government will certainly make some major moves in the real estate and banking space. Meanwhile, real estate lobbyists were pressing the [...]

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Commentary

How Much Time is 13 Seconds? Enough for Another New Foreclosure

by Joshua Dorkin | February 5, 2009

Remember the Rolling Stones song “Time is on Our Side”? It seems that that song might finally be outdated! According to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), we’re running out of time. Their website has a counter that sums up the total number of foreclosures since January 1, 2009, and every 13 seconds the counter [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Thinking About Skipping the Home Inspection? Learn from the Real Estate Horror Stories!

by Tom Koziol | February 5, 2009

Most of us who have been in real estate for longer than 3 days know a property inspection is an important element in the process. An inspection may be more critical if you are in the foreclosure/short sale real estate arena. I say may be because you may think its import is equal across the [...]

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Real Estate News

Another Day, Another Real Estate Scammer Busted: $20M Scam Shut Down!

by Joshua Dorkin | February 4, 2009

It seems that you don’t have to look too far to find someone trying to scam the innocent these days. From Madoff on down, it feels like there is a white collar crook around every corner. The good news is that many of these people are getting busted . . . unfortunately, by the time [...]

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Real Estate

Banks & Wall Street Robbing Us Blind; Making Fools Of Us All; Little Relief For Real Estate Industry As Yet

by Charles Feldman | February 4, 2009

They must think we are stupid. And, you know something, they just might be right! I’m talking about the banks and Wall Street financial institutions (if any are still left?) that are robbing us blind while doing precious little thus far to stabilize the real estate industry where the germ of global financial ruin first [...]

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Real Estate

Real Estate Investing Allows Me to Place $800 on Red or Black!

by Jason Hanson | February 3, 2009

Today I write to you from ‘Nawlins or as you less-cool people may call it New Orleans. I’ve never been here before but it was on my list of places to travel in 2009. Also, I had a closing last week, which is always nice. And since I had a closing last week, I’ve decided [...]

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Cool Stuff

The Bailout Rap . . . Brilliant!

by Joshua Dorkin | February 3, 2009

If you haven’t seen this yet, you’ve got to check it out! Its a “rapumentary addressing the wall street bailout,” written and performed by 47 year old stockbroker Gregg Somerville. Thoughts?

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Economy

Are we Moving Further and Further from those 4.5% Mortgage Rates we’ve Been Hearing About?

by Steve Heideman | February 2, 2009

Consumer confidence reached an all-time low and 100,000 Americans were issued layoff notices last week, each playing a role in the mortgage market’s relative worsening. For the third consecutive week, mortgage rates rose and average loan fees increased, too. Amid all of the negative economic news, however, there were two bright spots worth identifying and [...]

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Real Estate Websites

Real Estate List Building Secrets – Capturing emails and building your real estate list on AutoPilot- Part 2

by Peter Kolat | February 2, 2009

In my last article, I started telling about list building using a little page called a squeeze page. Real Estate List building is an essential strategy you need to use in your real estate business on the internet. Today, I am going to continue on and tell you about the ingredients that are required in [...]

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Blogs

What If The Real Estate Market Doesn’t Recover?

by Richard Warren | February 2, 2009

The real estate market has to recover eventually, doesn’t it? Maybe, maybe not. Blasphemy you say? It really depends on what your definition of “eventually” is. You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t know that there was a stock market crash in 1929. That crash was one of the precursors to the [...]

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