April 2011
Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | April 30, 2011A 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, [...]
Real Estate 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 [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Joshua Dorkin | April 29, 2011We 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 [...]
Landlord Tenant 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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing 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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing 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 [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant 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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing 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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate 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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing 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 [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | April 25, 2011This 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% [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | April 24, 2011A 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 [...]
Entrepreneurship by Joe Salcedo | April 23, 2011LAST 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 [...]
Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | April 23, 2011A 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 [...]
Commentary 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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Jason Grote
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Brandon Turner
James Vermillion
Sharon Vornholt
Melissa Zavala
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Investors Reject Speakers Marketing at Real Estate Club Meetings
by Joshua Dorkin | April 29, 2011We 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 [...]