April 2011
Real Estate Investing by Ken Corsini | April 13, 2011 
For some, the thought of hard money conjures up notions of loan sharks threatening to break your legs if you don’t pay on time. While not all hard money lenders are ideal business resources, most are knowledgeable, professional and can be used to great advantage in your real estate investing. With the lack of conventional [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Joe Manausa, MBA | April 13, 2011If you see a real estate agent blogging and referencing “appreciation” or “depreciation,” take a close look at how they are deriving their conclusion on the movement of value in the housing market. Often times, you will read sentences that transition from the average home price in an area to depreciation or appreciation, but this [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | April 12, 2011Though I have experience in rehabbing real estate for profit, it’s not my cuppa tea. I harbor deep respect for those who’ve been able to consistently pound out several a year over a long timespan. Regardless of what most of the silly TV shows may imply, it’s a road strewn with potholes and nails even [...]
Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | April 12, 2011 
There are some great deals out there for investors looking to buy distressed properties—foreclosures and even short sales. But, there are a few things that investor buyers need to be aware of when looking to purchase short sales. The investor who is buying a short sale and then plans to ‘flip’ or resell the property [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Andrew C. MacDonald | April 11, 2011Real estate investors often pride themselves on their ability to be creative, and to design win-win deals as an outcome to many different scenarios. The problem then becomes choosing which of the possible win-win scenarios to pursue. Each of us only have so much time, so much energy, and so many resources available to put [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | April 11, 2011This week we cover the big drop in vacancy rates, lower home prices (yes, more bad news), interest rates, and mortgage application activity. Apartment Vacancy Rates Fall Vacancy rates fell in the multi-family sector. REIS reported that apartment vacancy dropped from 6.6% to 6.2% in the first quarter of 2011. This is the biggest drop [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | April 10, 2011If I had to guess, there are a lot of investors out there who’ve lost money on a deal at one time or another. I did. It was early on when I thought getting the deal of a lifetime meant buying a house for 10% less than the asking price. (Go ahead and laugh.) However, [...]
Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | April 9, 2011A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of April 2 – April 8, by the numbers: $1000 – Amount Chicago based Dream Town Realty brokerage will pay out to Buyers or Sellers at closing for purchasing a $25 Groupon voucher. “The voucher is good for one year from the date of [...]
Real Estate by Jim Simcoe | April 8, 2011The world of green real estate investing changes fast. Below are some of the latest trends I’m seeing nationally. Green companies that sell ‘guilt’ (buy this/do this because it’s your responsibility to the planet) are getting crushed. Green companies selling on value are thriving. Customers buy value, not to suppress guilt. Some things don’t change. [...]
Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | April 7, 2011 
His voice was crisp, authoritative. It caught my daughter’s attention immediately. The funny thing is she doesn’t normally listen to talk radio when we’re in the car together. But this time she was paying attention. The man on the FM station told the story of a well-to-do executive that had recently lost his job. He [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Kevin Kaczmarek | April 6, 2011Congratulations You Are a Winner!!… Last week I gave two scenario’s. Your task was to decide which is the better investment for you. The first scenario allows you the investor, to pay cash for a property that needs $10,000 in rehabs. With the best estimate, this would be a $75,000 flip property. That same property [...]
Real Estate by Ken Corsini | April 6, 2011 
In 2009 as I worked to complete my masters degree from Georgia Tech, I undertook a large research project to study the effects of the recession on housing values in Metro Atlanta. The purpose of the research was to identify changes in the demand for certain characteristics of residential properties as the market was falling. [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | April 5, 2011The saying, cash is king is on my A-List of most used and abused phrases in real estate investing. Knowledge is king, and will trump the use of cash pretty much every time out, given time. Yet, in today’s market, one we’ve dealt with several years now, the phrase is repeated as if merely saying [...]
Real Estate Investing by Joe Manausa, MBA | April 5, 2011 
Having been a real estate investor now for over 20 years, I’ve started to examine my methodologies and see what I can do to improve upon the way I conduct my operations. Ironically, this is something I do continuously in my real estate brokerage business, but my real estate investing has often times been “business [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | April 5, 2011 
Is it possible that the time has finally come for investors to buy short sales and get smokin’ deals? Over the past year or two, it has become increasingly more difficult for investors to purchase short sales for cents on the dollar. Banks see the properties listed for short sale as pristine and scarcely want [...]
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