January 2010
Real Estate Marketing by Ryan Hartman | January 11, 2010 
Here below is a quick how-to guide for real estate agents who want to become local investor specialists but don’t want to go bawld doing it. Consistently featuring interior videos of distressed properties in your marketplace on a website is a surefire way to grow a list, get traffic, and generate a stream of transactions [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Winston Westbrook | January 11, 2010 
So over this past weekend I went to Target looking for the Monopoly board game. Target carries the game in a beautiful wooden box. This is exclusive only to Target along with all the other classic board games we grew up with. The box fits like a big dictionary in your library bookcase and looks [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Richard Warren | January 11, 2010 
So here we are in a new year – 2010. Just two days in I managed to accomplish something that I hadn’t done in many years – I got sick! I’m not talking about not feeling great and dragging yourself through a day while you feel miserable. I’m talking in the bed unable to do [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | January 10, 2010 
The other day I was meeting with a seller in Woodbridge, VA about a rental property, I was going to do a lease option on. The seller was very motivated because the property had been vacant for awhile and he was tired of bleeding cash. Previously, I had talked to the seller on the phone [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | January 9, 2010 
The date was May 20th, 2002 and was standing (mouth open in shock) inside my “newest” mobile home acquisition; a 1981 doublewide located in a clean mobile home park. When I originally looked and agreed to buy the mobile home I did my own inspection. Upon inspecting the home I only quickly walked thru and [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Tom Koziol | January 8, 2010 
Someone once said figures don’t lie, but liars figure. I want to restate that a bit. Figures don’t lie, but self interests figure. I don’t know if the media is tired of writing about sales going down 16%, or some other number, or if the organizations with a vested interest in the real estate market [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | January 7, 2010 
I first got interested in real estate investing about six years ago after watching a late night Carleton Sheets infomercial. I ordered the course, and after reading it from cover to cover the day the UPS guy dropped it off on my doorstep, I was chomping at the bit and ready to make my first [...]
Read the full article → Social Media by Christian Russell | January 7, 2010 
One of the most powerful things about a business blog for your real estate practice is that it saves you time. What’s that you say? That’s right…it SAVES you time. And you thought a blog would be a huge time sink, didn’t you? Does blogging take time? Of course it does, but it can also [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Florence Foote | January 6, 2010 
How many people do you know that made their fortunes in the stock market, and can live off the income their stocks and bonds generate? I don’t know any, but I do know quite a few successful real estate investors who have managed to quit the rat race, and can live off of their real [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Peter Giardini | January 6, 2010 
I was listening to a financial news report on the radio the other day and picked up on someone (regrettably I did not get their name) who was mentioning that the Treasury was having a difficult time selling bonds to cover Government operations. The implication being that no one wanted the U.S. debt at the [...]
Read the full article → New York Real Estate by Charles Feldman | January 6, 2010 
It’s one of those urban myths–you know, like alligators in sewers! That real estate prices in Manhattan always go up, or, at least, maintain their value. But if this were ever true (and historically it has undoubtedly not been from time to time) it certainly is not true now. While sales have actually increased, major [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | January 6, 2010 
Besides making your New Year’s resolutions there’s something much more important you should be doing at the start of the New Year. Any idea what it is? Well, it should be to sit down for 30 minutes to an hour and review last year. What mistakes did you make as a real estate investor, which [...]
Read the full article → Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | January 6, 2010 
Knowing how to pick a commercial loan modification company can be a difficult task. There are many factors to consider and the most important is to first decide whether you are good candidate for a commercial loan mod. Many commercial real estate owners have seen their property values decline between 30% and 50%, depending on [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | January 5, 2010 
One of the most often heard comments during phone conversations with potential clients is, “I didn’t know that was possible.” Or something similar. The foundation for successful investing is doing things on Purpose with a Plan. Taxes and the sheltering thereof is a main cog for most real estate investors. More important, how does the [...]
Read the full article → Financing Real Estate by Ryan Moeller | January 5, 2010 
To get conventional financing as an investor, many deals require a large down payment. Hard money lenders even require substantial down payments. Financing is a difficult challenge for many investors. So how do we do real estate deals? Real estate is an ‘Other People’s Money’ business, plain and simple. You do not need your own [...]
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A Great Way To Start The Year
by Richard Warren | January 11, 2010So here we are in a new year – 2010. Just two days in I managed to accomplish something that I hadn’t done in many years – I got sick! I’m not talking about not feeling great and dragging yourself through a day while you feel miserable. I’m talking in the bed unable to do [...]