Real Estate Investing by Mark Saunders | November 12, 2010Opportunity, perhaps. Some call it a decade of lost ownership and others call it the biggest housing bust since the great depression – investors call it big time opportunity. Finished lots are less costly than developing new: Over the course of the last couple years, investors have been buying finished lots on the cheap as [...]
Real Estate by Clint Coons | November 11, 2010 
Last week I discussed some of the prohibited transaction rules concerning retirement accounts. The point of my post was to make readers aware of the minefields that exist when investing in real estate in these accounts. These rules apply to all forms of retirement accounts, i.e., IRA, 401(k), ROTH IRA, Defined Benefit Plans, ESOP, 401(a), [...]
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Triple Shot of Confidence
by Douglas Lazovick | November 8, 2010I wonder if we will look back in a few years and view the week of November 1-5 2010, as when the US economy finally turned the corner. Last week, the market received a triple shot of encouraging news. On Tuesday, voters put the Republicans in charge of the House; on Wednesday, the Fed announced [...]