July 2009

Municipalities Dealing With Foreclosure Crisis

by Richard Warren | July 6, 2009

It is no secret that Nevada has been at or near the top in the foreclosure rankings for quite some time. This is certainly a case where nobody wants to be claiming “we’re number one!” The crisis has actually caused four adjacent or overlapping local governments to band together to address the problem. While their [...]

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BiggerPockets News

BiggerPockets Solidifies its Position as the Go To Real Estate Social Network

by Joshua Dorkin | July 5, 2009

Over the past 4+ years, BiggerPockets has steadily grown, forging its place as the leader for the real estate investing community. We’ve gone above and beyond in an effort to meet the needs of our users, and as a result, new members from every corner of real estate investing have flocked to our site. As [...]

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Real Estate

We Are So Incredibly Fortunate

by Brendan O'Brien | July 4, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I don’t want a bumper sticker that reads “Proud to be an American,” although I am proud of what my country has accomplished. I didn’t earn my citizenship – I was given it as a gift at birth. The best gift I have ever received. What I feel is gratitude. Think of [...]

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Commentary

Leveraging Celebrity

by Tom Koziol | July 3, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow is our nation’s birthday. Happy 4th of July to one and all. With what is happening today, it’s a wonder we’ve lasted as long as we have. I think one of the reasons we seem to keep overcoming depressions, recessions, housing bubbles, credit crisis, etc is because we are naturally givers. [...]

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Commentary

Banks Want Free Field That Could Lead To Another Real Estate Bubble-Burst Cycle

by Charles Feldman | July 2, 2009

Image by wallyg via Flickr Think the big banks would be at least a little grateful to American taxpayers for bailing them out with their money? Yeah, right! A published report the other day says these “too big to fail” institutions are doing everything in their taxpayer fueled power to head off a proposal by [...]

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Commentary

Is Multifamily Immune from Commercial Real Estate Decline?

by Ted Karsch | July 1, 2009

While the turmoil in the residential real estate markets continues to make headlines, some analysts and prognosticators are questioning whether we will see the same kind of meltdown and mass foreclosures in the commercial real estate side of the industry. And the general consensus of those quoted in various news services and website across the [...]

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