February 2011

14 Real Estate Stats: Pre-Valentine’s Day Edition

by Douglas Lazovick | February 11, 2011

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I will up the number of real estate stats this week to 14 from the customary 10 I usually provide: 1% – The percentage decrease from December to January of homes that received initial default notices. The number of homes that received initial default notices was also the lowest in 3 [...]

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Real Estate

Green Real Estate Data

by Jim Simcoe | February 11, 2011

One of the keys to any successful real estate investor is knowing what your target market wants or at least what they are thinking about. Green real estate is no different. With that said, here are a few of the latest green real estate statistics highlighting home buyers (and renters) purchasing decisions. According to a [...]

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Real Estate Law

Finder’s Fee in Real Estate Investing – Is it Legal?

by Clint Coons | February 10, 2011

This week I received an inquiry from a real estate investor so fresh from an investment seminar that I could feel the weight of the credit card debt he racked during the event. The investor, like a gladiator looking to win his freedom with one last fight, was ready to tackle wholesaling property and make [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing At The Speed of Opportunity…

by Peter Giardini | February 10, 2011

I am always struck by the number of individuals who want desperately to get into real estate investing but for a variety of reasons, they just don’t get going. The article I wrote last week for the BiggerPockets Blog sharing the success story of one investor in Baltimore Maryland, provided some insights into an investors [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Tipping the Scales of Performing and Non-Performing Notes

by Kevin Kaczmarek | February 9, 2011

Not all things are created equal — a great concept to remember when beginning to evaluate the value of a note. Knowing that, let me get right into it this week. Imagine a property purchased for $25,000 cash in Anytown, USA. That same property is sold on seller financed terms for $50,000 with 10% down, [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Buy And Hold Case Study

by Joe Manausa, MBA | February 8, 2011

Today’s blog is a follow-up to last week’s post (The Return Of The Real Estate Buy And Hold Strategy) in which I promised to show a case-study of this principle. I have chosen to do this in two-parts. This week will show a real-world “already done” investment where a property was purchased during a buy [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing – Objectivity – And Jumpin’ Out Of Airplanes

by Jeff Brown | February 8, 2011

In the many conversations I have with experienced real estate investors and those wantin’ to get started, the subject of strategy is virtually sure to come up. Leverage, assumptions used in analysis, where to invest, financing decisions and the like, become pieces in your own personal game of Monopoly. Once finding themselves honest to goodness real [...]

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Real Estate

A Short Sale Listing Can Be a Walk in the Park

by Melissa Zavala | February 8, 2011

One day several years back, I woke up and realized that I had an epiphany. Not a religious epiphany but a business epiphany—if there is such a thing. I suddenly saw short sales for what they really are—a perfect opportunity to become a master listing agent. Every real estate coach and presenter says, “If you [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate in the Path of Progress

by Richard Warren | February 7, 2011

I remember going to my first major league baseball game. I was ten-years-old when I went to see the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. That ballpark was located in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by auto salvage yards in the borough of Queens. It seems like stadiums of that time were located on whatever [...]

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Real Estate

Do Short Sales and REOs Affect Local Market Property Values?

by Bill & Jackie Patterson | February 7, 2011

You had better believe it! We all know that there are different values for distressed properties and a normal retail property. The problem is, that the distressed REO or Short Sale property does have an effect on your local and neighborhood housing values and appraisals. You can have a well kept up home that has [...]

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Housing

Renter Nation, Perfect Affordability Conditions, Mortgage Activity Jumps: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | February 7, 2011

Home-ownership seems out of vogue. Does that mean the American dream is dead? Also we’ll get an update on mortgage purchase applications, interest rates, and thoughts on home affordability. Home-ownership Declines: Renter Nation is Back The Census Bureau reported that home-ownership continues to decline. It’s estimated now that home-ownership has declined to 66.5%, down from [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Find a Good Real Estate Partner Using The “5-Deal Test”

by Jason Hanson | February 6, 2011

When it comes to real estate investing, I definitely think you should have partners. However, there are many caveats. First off, I believe that you should only do partnerships on a house by house basis; in other words, I would never add someone to your LLC, because then they’re a 50% partner in your entire [...]

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Real Estate

10 Real Estate Stats From This Week

by Douglas Lazovick | February 5, 2011

Busy week planning your Super Bowl party? Not enough time to catch up on this week’s real estate articles? No worries, I’ve compiled some real estate stats I ran across this week: 18.4 Million – The number of U.S. homes vacant in the 4th quarter of 2010. Of the nearly 131 homes in the U.S., [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Living Vicariously Through Others’ Positive Cash-flow

by Peter Giardini | February 4, 2011

I absolutely love success stories. Especially those stories which demonstrate that it is possible to be successful as a real estate investor, yes even in today’s market, and live the American DREAM! Let me share one such story with you… a story I hope you are currently aspiring to. The story goes something like this… The [...]

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Real Estate

Finding Green Grant Money

by Jim Simcoe | February 4, 2011

Like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and a good pizza in San Diego, grants for real estate investors are hard to find. Unlike good pizza in San Diego, they DO exist. Unfortunately there is a huge gap between what’s available and what most investors need to know to get it. Savvy investors get their rebates [...]

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