December 2010
Real Estate by Jim Simcoe | December 31, 2010In less than 24 hours 2010 will be over and a new year of real estate investment opportunities and challenges will begin. In regards to green real estate, here are my predictions for 2011 (in no order): Green Value will replace Green Hype. 2010 was the last year we’ll see people largely add green elements [...]
Real Estate Law by Clint Coons | December 31, 2010 
What do motorcycles and real estate have in common? Nothing, but when it comes to buying and selling – everything. I used to watch a “reality show” called American Choppers. For those of you unfamiliar with the show it involves a custom designed motorcycle shop and the daily tensions that arise between the father, the [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Peter Giardini | December 30, 2010 
With the New Year just around the corner, your goals for the coming year should be well thought out, committed to paper, and not stuffed into a drawer only to be looked at in the next couple of months. The funny thing about goals is that while most real estate investors understand their importance, very seldom [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Steve Dexter | December 30, 2010 
We are now at Stage One of the five stages of the real estate cycle – “The Bottom” – as I mentioned in my previous post. Below are strategies savvy investors employ to take advantage of market bottoms. During the bottom, you have to take what the market gives you; the correct strategy now is [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Julie Broad | December 29, 2010 
My husband Dave and I just returned from a week of vacation in Mexico. As I tried to use my rusty Spanish with various locals I thought back to a decade earlier when I had spent several months backpacking around Guatemala and Central America. One of my past times during that trip was to practice [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Jeff Brown | December 28, 2010We’ve all done it. I’m a repeat offender — as a real estate brokerage owner, investor, and surely as a raw, young, know-it-all agent. We make the decision to do something for which we’re simply not qualified. I opened a real estate investment firm at 25 — an ignorantly arrogant move if ever there was [...]
Real Estate Investing by Kevin Kaczmarek | December 28, 2010 
Across the country traditional financing has slowed. For real estate investors financing sales on land contract is now a great tool to have in your toolbox. Using a contract to sell your real estate can help open the door to more potential buyers, increase flexibility in negotiations and create cash flow in the process. Not all [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | December 28, 2010 
Sometimes when I visit real estate offices, I notice that real estate agents have lots of unopened envelopes on their desks, pushed up in a corner. I recognize those envelopes because I see them all the time. They are preliminary title reports and zone disclosure reports, and I frequently wonder why agents are not reviewing [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Douglas Lazovick | December 27, 2010It’s that time when we look back and reflect on the events that shaped the year in real estate. But 365 days is a long time. So long that we often forget what happened and when. No problem. Google has a great tool called Google Insights that lets us drill down to when (and where) [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | December 27, 2010As 2010 winds down, we’ll take a look back at the year in interest rates, cover the improvements in existing and new home sales, and take a look forward at 2011. Let’s take a look at the week in housing: Existing Home Sale Show Improvement The National Association of Realtors reported a continued increase in [...]
Commentary by Jason Hanson | December 26, 2010I’ve always tried to surround myself with people who are smarter than me. I’d say that’s one of the biggest secrets to success in life. If you’re in a mastermind group and you’re the smartest person in the room, then you need to find a new group because you’re not learning very much. I bring [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | December 25, 2010 
Once you have closed a few deals you will find it not necessary most of the time to hire inspectors or contractors to inspect your mobile home properties before you purchase them. With their simple shapes and what you see is what you get construction, these homes allow for anyone knowing what to look for, [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Clint Coons | December 24, 2010 
When it comes to asset protection the majority of attention is given to investment real estate with scant advice on how to protect a personal residence. If you are fortunate to live in a state that offers a high homestead exemption, then this is not a concern, but for everyone else the picture is less [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Steve Dexter | December 23, 2010Let’s see….we have 900,000 bank foreclosures happening now according to Realty Trac and 143,000 of these are in California. Only a third of these foreclosures are even listed with a realtor. In my favorite areas to buy and hold real estate-Los Angeles and Orange counties- Realty Trac tells me that 34,000 houses have been taken [...]
Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | December 22, 2010 
Daddy, this is boring – when are they going to talk? The Nutcracker had just started and already my 6 year-old daughter, Audrey, was complaining. Evidently no one had explained to her that there is no dialogue in a ballet. I blame my wife. It is not a Dad’s job to know the storyline of [...]
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Jason Grote
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Douglas Lazovick
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Brandon Turner
James Vermillion
Sharon Vornholt
Melissa Zavala
Michael Zuber
Your 2011 Goals, and How You Can Guarantee Their Achievement!
by Peter Giardini | December 30, 2010With the New Year just around the corner, your goals for the coming year should be well thought out, committed to paper, and not stuffed into a drawer only to be looked at in the next couple of months. The funny thing about goals is that while most real estate investors understand their importance, very seldom [...]