April 2011

Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 23 – April 29

by Douglas Lazovick | April 30, 2011

A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of April 23 – April 29, by the numbers: 0.2% – Decline in the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city index in February from January. The index measures home prices in 20 major cities. Nineteen cities saw a decline month-over-month. Ten of those cities – Atlanta, Charlotte, [...]

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Real Estate

How to Raise Money for Green Real Estate Projects

by Jim Simcoe | April 29, 2011

Raising money may be the most invaluable skill for any real estate investor. Without it you”ll spend all of your own money and take all of the risks. Finding money is as important (if not more) than finding deals. [This is probably obvious to everyone reading] Traditionally, investors look in two places for money: Friends [...]

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Commentary

Investors Reject Speakers Marketing at Real Estate Club Meetings

by Joshua Dorkin | April 29, 2011

We conducted a non-scientific poll this week via Facebook to determine how investors felt about the speakers at their local real estate club meetings marketing to them, and the results are pretty clear. We asked, “Should real estate investor clubs allow speakers to market their products during meetings?” Updated 5/1/11: We’ve had a total of [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Riches in Niches: A Real Life Landlord Success Story!

by Peter Giardini | April 28, 2011

Back in March of this year I wrote an article entitled, Riches In Niches: A Guide To Greater Rental Property Cashflow. The focus of this article was to encourage you as a landlord to explore specific market and tenant niches as ways to maximize the positive cashflow on your rentals. The key for many landlords, is [...]

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Real Estate Investing

When Flipping it’s the FHA’s Way or the Highway

by Marty Boardman | April 28, 2011

You’ve heard of the Golden Rule right? Virtually every religion in the world has a version of it. There’s the Bible: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” – Matthew 7:12 And Buddhism: “Hurt not others in ways that [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Have a Potential Buyer but Need more Convincing?

by Kevin Kaczmarek | April 27, 2011

We’ve talked a lot these past few months about how to sell a property on land contract, how to qualify the buyer, and finally how to market and sell the note. All of this is very valuable information and on paper this looks very doable. Yet, often what trips up investors from selling on financing [...]

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Landlord Tenant

How to Deal with Delinquent Tenants

by Ken Corsini | April 27, 2011

If you have ever owned a rental property, chances are you have had to deal with late rent payments. Unfortunately, as a landlord, this simply goes with the territory. As common as this is however, I often see investors caught off guard when they first encounter a tenant who is late with the rent. In [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Knowing What’s What Isn’t Important – It’s Crucial for Retirement

by Jeff Brown | April 26, 2011

Baseball’s been called ‘The American Pastime’ since forever. Most people, even those who barely or never actually played the game, think they understand what’s goin’ on in any particular situation. Take last year’s American League Cy Young award winner, Felix Hernandez. The guy had a pedestrian 13 wins and 12 losses for Heaven’s sake. How [...]

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Real Estate

How to Choose the Best Offer on Your Short Sale

by Melissa Zavala | April 26, 2011

The expression “Cash is king” is often heard throughout the real estate community. But, when it comes to short sales, is cash really king? Does the bank actually care whether the offer is a cash one? Isn’t any purchase a cash purchase at the end of the day? While it has always been true that [...]

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Real Estate Investing

There is No Perfect Deal

by Andrew C. MacDonald | April 25, 2011

When I first started investing in real estate, one of the things that held me back from buying my first property was trying to find the perfect deal. As I looked at more and more properties, I could find reasons to kill just about any deal I was considering. Later I came to realize there [...]

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Housing

Existing Home Sales, Housing Starts, Builder Confidence and more: The Week in Housing

by Ryan Hinricher | April 25, 2011

This was a busy week for housing. Data is in from the NAR on existing home sales, builder confidence, interest rates, housing starts, housing completions, and building permits. Existing Home Sales Rise March gave us a marked improvement in existing home sales. The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes rose 3.7% [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Why I Told Him Not to Wholesale This Deal

by Jason Hanson | April 24, 2011

A friend of mine who’s a newer investor sent me a deal to evaluate for him. The seller was motivated and my friend thought it would be a great wholesale opportunity. He was telling me that his next REIA meeting was coming up and he was excited to be able to go the front of [...]

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Entrepreneurship

The DNA of a Real Estate Trail Blazer: Introducing Rob Grant

by Joe Salcedo | April 23, 2011

LAST WEEK, I had a chance to get to know Rob Grant, one of the biggest real estate domain owners in the world, some of his names include NewYorkrealestate.com, BeverlyHillsrealestate.com, and many more. His recent sale, ParkCityrealestate.com (Utah), was sold for a cool $60,000. What’s interesting to me is he started in “offline” real estate [...]

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Real Estate

Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 16 – April 22

by Douglas Lazovick | April 23, 2011

A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of April 16 – April 22, by the numbers: $51.75 Million – IPO filed by Zillow. The Seattle based internet real estate company had 19.4 million unique visitors on their site and mobile app, year-over-year. Zillow’s revenue of $30.5 Million in 2010 is [...]

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Commentary

Changing the Real Estate Investing Industry One Person at a Time

by Joshua Dorkin | April 22, 2011

Nobody said it would be easy, and it hasn’t been. I remember having conversations with some of my friends in the early days of BiggerPockets, and there was a lot of doubt about creating an online company to serve the real estate investing niche. There were already several established players in the REI online space, [...]

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