August 2010

3 Categories & 1 Word Reveal The Truth About The Success of Your Real Estate Business

by J. Lamar Ferren | August 31, 2010

Have you ever wondered why some businesses fail? It’s more than just a business plan or lack thereof. I think its something much deeper than that. You see, in the mist of all this “doom & gloom” in the economy that we keep hearing about, there are businesses out there that are failing but there [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Walkin’ the Talk – What I Told My Own Daughter To Do

by Jeff Brown | August 31, 2010

Sunday morning found me havin’ breakfast with my newlywed daughter and her wicked cool hubby. They’re both anomalies in this economy. Within a reasonable time both of them found jobs completely congruent with their degrees. In a year or so they went from starving students to, “I think we’re gettin’ outa hand with the whole [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Real Estate Syndication: 3 Ways You Can Profit

by Khary Reynolds | August 30, 2010

As a real estate investor it is critical that you have access to readily available capital in order to capitalize on the numerous opportunities that are present in today’s market. One way to do this is by acquiring properties through syndication. Real Estate Syndication is simply the pooling of funds from numerous investors and channeling [...]

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Housing

Housing Market Summary – Week of August 30th

by Ryan Hinricher | August 30, 2010

A busy week of mostly negative news for the macro housing market offers; a look at NAR’s Existing Home Sales report, numbers on new home sales, interest rates, mortgage applications, and the Mortgage Bankers Associations quarterly report on delinquency and foreclosures. Existing Home Sales: Expected Fall The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Investing in Ghost Town Real Estate

by Richard Warren | August 30, 2010

Visitors to Las Vegas and other parts of southern Nevada often take a break from the gaming tables to visit nearby ghost towns. These vestiges of mining booms gone bust are rich in history and folklore. Places like Goldfield, Rhyolite, Calico, and others offer a glimpse into days gone by and while walking among the [...]

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Real Estate

The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: August 29, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | August 29, 2010

1 ) One of the quickest deaths to a short sale transaction is a bad BPO, and it happens way to often. When the BPO is out of the ballpark, you really need to go to work and educate the bank. As Melissa points out the best way may be preventive maintenance and meeting the [...]

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Real Estate News

Negative Equity Declines: Is It Good News?

by Alex Cortez | August 29, 2010

Let’s talk about what the 2Q 2010 negative equity report released by CoreLogic. The amount of homes underwater declined, but is it good news?

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Real Estate Investing

Helping Your Motivated – but Not Desparate – Sellers to See the Light

by John Fedro | August 28, 2010

Today we are going to cover three very effective methods to help convince our prospective sellers to sell their properties to you for a great price or great sale terms. Let us first assume that the sellers you are talking to have equity in their homes; equity that you are trying to capture and profit [...]

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Real Estate

Don’t waste your money on these 7 ‘Green’ items

by Jim Simcoe | August 27, 2010

People want green homes and investors want to give them green homes. The logic is simple, the demand is there and the profits should follow, right? Wrong. The cardinal mistake I see investors make when they attempt to ‘green’ their investments is spending too much. They spend money on things that flat out aren’t worth [...]

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Commentary

Positioning Your Real Estate Investing Business For Profits

by Peter Giardini | August 27, 2010

As real estate investors and business owners one of our biggest jobs is to make sure that we are executing the right strategies and adjusting those strategies to anticipate where the market is headed to maximize our profits. The problem with figuring out if you are doing the right thing is that the information is [...]

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Real Estate Tools

Google Places: A Free Way to Promote Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes | August 26, 2010

Since I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like free advertising, I wanted to encourage all of my fellow real estate entrepreneurs and professionals to take advantage of Google Places. Google Places provides businesses with an online profile that can appear in Google search results for your type of business as well as Google Maps. For [...]

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Real Estate

The Coming Crash in the Canadian Housing Market

by Julie Broad | August 25, 2010

Last week the July numbers were released and Canadian home sales dropped 30% over July of 2009! And prices are slipping along with the sales numbers as fewer buyers are willing to step into this uncertain market. In fact – national home prices dropped nearly 4% from June 2010 to July 2010. Clearly the crash [...]

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Taxes

Recent Tax Court Ruling Denies IRS Sec.121 Gain Exclusion on Sale of a Personal Residence

by Clint Coons | August 24, 2010

Have you ever considered tearing down and remodeling your personal residence? Better be careful because the IRS is watching and what appears on its face as an innocuous event can have serious tax ramifications for you down the road. In a recent tax case the IRS was able to convince the Tax Court (Gates v. [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Let’s Look Closely At Residential Income Property VS. Commercial

by Jeff Brown | August 24, 2010

So far this year I’ve had this particular conversation maybe half a dozen times. I’ll have a few more. It comes with its own script. They either want to explore the acquisition of some sorta retail or office property, or have one and wanna talk about how fast I can get ‘em out of it. [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

4 Alternative Methods to Finance Your Apartment Investment

by Khary Reynolds | August 23, 2010

With the record amount of residential foreclosures in recent years, there poses a great opportunity to profit from rental housing by investing in Apartment Buildings. However, even if you recognize this opportunity, you must know how to go about financing any potential apartment investment that you come across. In today’s turbulent economy the best real [...]

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