March 2009

Banks Walk Away From Foreclosed Homes; GM CEO Driven Away By “O” Administration

by Charles Feldman | March 31, 2009

Looks like some banks have stolen some ideas from their own customers…after months of worry about homeowners walking away from foreclosed properties, more and more banks are now apparently doing the same thing, leaving the property owner holding the bag. According to a New York Times report, “the so-called bank walkaways rarely mean reflief for [...]

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Economy

Mortgage Rates May Be at Bottom

by Steve Heideman | March 30, 2009

From an economic standpoint, last week was an interesting one. The stock markets made strong gains last week but the mortgage markets barely moved in the wake of the Treasury’s “toxic asset” plan. Amongst the other news from last week: Existing home sales showed unexpected strength New home sales showed unexpected strength Data showed home [...]

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Real Estate

Rolling “Craps” in Sin City

by Richard Warren | March 30, 2009

Anyone who pays any attention at all to real estate knows that Las Vegas has been absolutely hammered by the real estate downturn. At or near the top in foreclosures, prices down to pre-boom levels, new home building has ground to a halt. The local economy is reeling with unemployment over 10%, tourism down sharply, [...]

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Entrepreneurship

How To Master Your Time Before The Time Masters You

by Peter Kolat | March 29, 2009

Today I am going to share something with you that can literally change your life. This little technique will give you the power to master your own business and your own life. You need to master this technique if you want to be successful in life. What am I talking about here? I’m talking about [...]

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Commentary

Geithnerism: Institutionalizing “Too Big To Fail” – A Favor To Mega-Banks

by Rob K. Blake | March 29, 2009

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner testified before Congress yesterday on a new regulatory system for financial institutions. The immediate motivation for this was to capitalize on the uproar over the AIG bonuses. Since the government couldn’t legally claw back those “Stimulus Package approved” bonuses, the Obama administration wanted to assure voters they were “concerned” over their [...]

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Landlord Tenant

How to Place your Rental Listing for Best Results

by Brendan O'Brien | March 28, 2009

Finding qualified tenants is one of our biggest challenges. Last week, I talked about marketing empty rental units as a big funnel. Why a funnel? Because one end is an enormous group of people – the people who might rent a residential unit. The other end is just a couple of people – qualified prospective [...]

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Commentary

American Ingenuity From A Small Guy

by Tom Koziol | March 27, 2009

If you feel bombarded by all of the news on the latest stimulus package, the latest “help-the-homeowner” proposals, the latest proposed changes to the tax laws, the latest foreclosure bailout proposals, the latest $7500 tax credit (that’s really a loan) for first time home buyers and all of the latest static in the air to [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

2 Simple Tools To Help You Plan Your Real Estate Marketing

by Jason Hanson | March 26, 2009

I once dated a girl who told me I was too practical and that I planned everything out too much. This girl lived in Florida, and I told her that my planning was the reason for my success and one of the reasons that I was able to spend one week a month down in [...]

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Real Estate Deals

Series LLCs and Real Estate Investing: A Primer – Look Before You Leap, Though!

by Greg Boots | March 25, 2009

By now most investors are aware that Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) are designed to help insulate the owner (member) of the LLC from the liabilities that may arise on an investment property held within the LLC. What has drawn confusion and massive amount of debate is whether or not an investor should create a Series [...]

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Blogs

Stop Paying Useless SEO Companies to Promote Your Website!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 25, 2009

Log into the blog . . . check comments . . . remove useless SEO comments . . . A Look at SEO Blog Comments that Will Sink Your Company Getting SPAM comments on your blog is certainly an annoying thing, particularly because of all of the filters on blogs these days, but more annoying, [...]

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Commentary

How to Find Commercial Real Estate Sellers

by Ted Karsch | March 24, 2009

There are many ways that investors use to find motivated sellers, however, what I see happening many times with beginners is that they start looking for properties to purchase before they thoroughly understand how to identify a truly profitable opportunity. Here are my recommendations for how to begin learning about multifamily investing and then how [...]

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Commentary

Beware “Good” Housing News; May Be A House Of Cards

by Charles Feldman | March 24, 2009

Don’t pop those corks just yet. We may have ducked a few thunderheads, but we still have enormous storm clouds ahead. The news that existing home sales rose in February at the fastest rate in some six years, certainly brings with it the hope that the bottom (or end) to this mortgage caused misery is [...]

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Economy

Latest Real Estate Market Data Showing a Whisper of a Bottom

by Steve Heideman | March 23, 2009

Existing home sales rose 5.1% in Feburary to a stronger than expected pace of 4.72 million units. This is the latest in a series of tiny whispers or as Larry Kudlow calls them “mustard seeds” that we may indeed be in a bottoming process. The other signs include: Homebuilders are breaking ground on new homes again [...]

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Blogs

Adding Value To Make The Sale

by Richard Warren | March 23, 2009

A few short years ago you could sell anything in the hot markets. Before you finished putting the sign on the lawn you had multiple offers in your hands. Competition for properties was so fierce that it wasn’t necessary to spend money or waste time fixing up a house because the buyers didn’t care. [...]

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Commentary

The Top 5 Concerns for Real Estate Investors in 2009

by Joshua Dorkin | March 22, 2009

Here are a few thoughts about a recent study of the Top 5 Real Estate Investor concerns of 2009. Let us know what your concerns are! Share your thoughts below.

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