January 2010
Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | January 31, 2010 
“Jason I need your help!” That was the subject of a note, which my assistant Lisa sent to me. It was a note from a new investor I was helping out. And the note happened to contain a major concern of many investors, which shouldn’t be a concern at all. So what did this person [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Technology by J. Lamar Ferren | January 30, 2010 
Real Estate websites, or any website for that matter, can be very intimidating to someone who knows nothing about designing websites. It’s like another world with its own language. I mean that in the most literal way possible. When you hear web designers talking all that HTML, XML, Javascript, DIV mumbo jumbo, you might get [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Tom Koziol | January 29, 2010 
I did not lose my mind nor am I trying to sound like I’m talking in circles. Something called Complexity Theory is a known commodity and actually works. Hence, simplification through complexity. The below explanation of complexity theory was borrowed from an article at American Thinker. That particular article deals with politics and our current [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Brian Brady | January 29, 2010If you’re a real estate scavenger, who likes to buy foreclosure properties at a deep discount and “flip” them to retail home buyers, the FHA anti-flipping rule has always been a thorn in your side. Come Monday, February 1, 2010, HUD has agreed to suspend that prohibition for a period of 12 months. 123flip.com reports [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Shae Bynes | January 28, 2010 
I am a firm believer in the power and effectiveness of direct mail as a source of motivated seller leads. Frankly, I’m not as convinced that the ROI is as strong for identifying cash buyers with direct mail compared to other methods, but for motivated sellers? It rocks. As I set things in motion for [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Peter Giardini | January 28, 2010I just got off the phone with the commercial lending VP at a small local bank. This bank just survived its first Office of Thrift Supervision audit since the financial meltdown. This audit took the better part of two months — all for a bank with less then $200 million in assets. As I mentioned, they [...]
Real Estate Wholesaling by Stephani Davis | January 28, 2010As a beginning wholesaler, figuring out how much to offer on a property is one of the most confusing aspects of the wholesaling process. When I was first getting started it would take me hours (sometimes days) of crunching numbers, running comps, and plugging figures into various formulas before I actually came to a decision [...]
Commentary by Charles Feldman | January 27, 2010 
It looks like the Obama White House really does have its job cut out for it: Most economists agree that any meaningful economic recovery must be built upon the foundation of a substantial recovery in the real estate market–the place from where the worst recession since the Great Depression got its start. But new figures [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Ted Karsch | January 27, 2010Unemployment – Official unemployment rates are now above 10% for many areas of the country. If you factor in the number of people who are under-employed or who have given up looking for work, the number is closer to 20%. If unemployment levels continue to rise or even stay the same it does not seem [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Florence Foote | January 26, 2010 
Many of you may have been looking to buy a small (one to four unit) investment property recently. Prices have come down in many areas of the country, including some of the most up-and-coming areas. Combined with low fixed rate long term financing, these properties can make excellent investments. How do you find such a [...]
Read the full article → Starting Out by Ryan Moeller | January 26, 2010Every business must start with a business plan. No matter how simple, not having a plan is planning to fail. The biggest mistake I see with investors is never creating a business plan with focus on one strategy. They spread themselves too thin and never master their craft. Here is an outline of a very [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | January 26, 2010Back in the day I used to teach after tax cash flow analysis to house agents wanting to venture over to what they often referred to as the Dark Side. It was spread over a few classes, one of which was the bottom line effect of tax deferred exchanges. Usually there was an investor or [...]
Real Estate Investing by Ryan Hartman | January 25, 2010 
Uh oh. It’s Monday again and I’m scrambling (again) to come up with a topic for my weekly post. Man, I shouldn’t have this problem. After all, I’m the guy who’s always telling real estate agents to figure out some regular piece of templated content to put on their sites – something that’ll only take [...]
Read the full article → Economy by Ryan Hinricher | January 25, 2010I’m starting to hear the phrase, “pent-up demand” a lot from various investors, real estate professionals, and builders. I started thinking a bit more about this and what’s in store for this spring in the housing industry, and more specifically in the new construction industry. New construction is something I have limited experience with. However, [...]
Real Estate by Richard Warren | January 25, 2010 
A few days ago I bumped into someone I hadn’t seen for quite some time. Bob (made up name) was a real estate agent I had come to know through networking. I first met him a few years ago just as the Las Vegas real estate market was starting to decline. Bob had been fairly [...]
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Simplification Through Complexity: Managing Your Real Estate Portfolio
by Tom Koziol | January 29, 2010I did not lose my mind nor am I trying to sound like I’m talking in circles. Something called Complexity Theory is a known commodity and actually works. Hence, simplification through complexity. The below explanation of complexity theory was borrowed from an article at American Thinker. That particular article deals with politics and our current [...]