May 2010
Real Estate by Richard Warren | May 10, 2010 
The end of April in Las Vegas was like using a time machine to go all the back to 2005. We saw something I thought was gone forever – lines at new home developments! Of course we know that it was because the $8,000 or $6,500 home buyer tax credits were expiring. Most local builders [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate News by Alex Cortez | May 9, 2010 
With such a high-pace, fast-changing industry like real estate, at times it becomes difficult to get caught up with the comings and goings of what’s going on with the market. And in the spirit of being succinct yet informed, I compiled a list of newsworthy events in real estate for the past week
Read the full article → Real Estate News by Dean Ouellette | May 8, 2010 
1 ) The Hangover – The tax credit is over; have people stopped looking for houses? The numbers vary greatly according to Redfin’s search numbers. 2 ) Do you need a custom Facebook page? If you were to ask Todd Carpenter, he would say no. If you were to ask Mike Mueller he would say [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | May 8, 2010 
I’m helping out a new investor on a property he wants to rehab. And like many investors he knows the simple wholesale/rehab formula which is to buy a house at 65% of the after repair value and then subtract the repairs, etc. However, if that’s where you stop, you’re in big trouble and you might [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | May 7, 2010One of the biggest reasons I love real estate so much is because there are countless ways to make a considerable profit with real estate. The questions really are: How creative are you? How bad do you need a deal? And how motivated are your Sellers to sell or just stop losing money each month? [...]
Real Estate by Jim Simcoe | May 7, 2010What do Porsche and Volvo have in common? They are all the best in their class, have little competition; and sell at a premium. When you think fast, high-performance cars you think Porsche. When you think about the safest car imaginable you probably think Volvo. Quick story- Six years ago when my wife was pregnant [...]
Commentary by Charles Feldman | May 6, 2010The massive financial earthquake brought about by the subprime mortgage debacle is still producing large aftershocks around the globe and today was one of the biggest. For sure, at first glance, it would appear as if the trigger for today’s dramatic–though temporary–drop of the Dow for a brief period of 998.5 points (its biggest ever [...]
Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | May 6, 2010After three years as a full time real estate wholesaler, I’ve pretty much made every mistake in the book, and have learned some valuable lessons in the process. Following are five wholesaling tips that I’ve picked up while out in the trenches: #1) Always collect an earnest money deposit from your end buyer When I [...]
Real Estate Investing by Shae Bynes | May 6, 2010 
When I was a senior in college I had a friend who I considered to be pretty brilliant. He was a few years older than most of my classmates and while he had limited business experience, it was definitely more than I had as a 21 year old at the time (which was pretty much [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Julie Broad | May 5, 2010 
Not long ago there was quite a heated discussion in the comments following a blog post by Florence Foote on investing your money with Wall street vs into real estate. While I agree with Florence that real estate is probably a better place to put your money in the long run, I take a different [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | May 4, 2010What the heck is a kinda sorta case study? It’s one that hasn’t happened yet. I often admit on my own blog that the calls I get from current or wannabe real estate investors are daily fixes, feeding my addictive need to take folks from where they are now, to significantly greener pastures — or [...]
Real Estate Investing by Florence Foote | May 4, 2010Google Labs introduced a nifty set of experimental tools for visualizing data. Although there are a lot of cool ones (government debt in Europe, anyone?), my attention was immediately caught by the U.S. population data set. That data is absolutely fascinating for any real estate investor who is interested in the demand side of the [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Justin McHood | May 4, 2010One of the great benefits for a Vet getting a VA loan is that the Vet is protected somewhat against being overcharged by a loan officer. The official language from the VA is that “The veteran can pay a maximum of reasonable and customary amounts for any or all of the ‘Itemized Fees and Charges’ [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 3, 2010I wanted to verbalize my thoughts on the market and why I believe people looking to invest in real estate should do so but proceed with caution. Last week I wrote an article about why I believe investors should use a blue-chip real estate strategy when investing in today’s market. The focus was on identifying [...]
Commentary by Richard Warren | May 3, 2010 
The new buzzword in real estate is Strategic Default. It’s a phrase that would make political spin doctors proud and has a much nicer sound than many other words for walking away from an obligation. It sounds so very professional. It’s like the corporations that proudly proclaim that they “chose bankruptcy in order to make [...]
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Wall Street “Plunge” Latest AfterShock Of Great Recession Earthquake
by Charles Feldman | May 6, 2010The massive financial earthquake brought about by the subprime mortgage debacle is still producing large aftershocks around the globe and today was one of the biggest. For sure, at first glance, it would appear as if the trigger for today’s dramatic–though temporary–drop of the Dow for a brief period of 998.5 points (its biggest ever [...]