May 2011
Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | May 31, 2011Here’s another fantastic real estate investor interview (22:52 minutes) with Mark Updegraff, a buy and hold investor based in Rochester, NY, who is focused on his local market as well as parts of Pennsylvania. Mark shares his 4 years of experience and covers topics including working with turn-key investment firms, finding and screening tenants, and [...]
Selling Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | May 31, 2011 
Christopher Columbus is known for discovering that the world is, in fact, round. Albert Einstein is known for his Theory of Relativity. Well, I’ve got a theory, too. It’s the theory of the Everlasting Gobstopper. Over the last four years or so, I’ve come to reason that a short sale is kind of like the [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Andrew C. MacDonald | May 30, 2011Real estate is a fantastic long term investment which makes it suitable to include as part of your family legacy. Have you ever considered what you would like to pass along to the next generation? In my case, Old MacDonald had a farm and it has been passed along from generation to generation. Passing along [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 30, 2011This week we cover the pending home sales release from the National Association of Realtors, new home sales, interest rates, and news on delinquency. Pending Home Sales Hit Skids The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported pending home sales plunged 11.6% in April. Year-over-year pending home sales are down 25.6% when the second home buyer [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | May 29, 2011I know that putting out bandit signs isn’t a fun activity. Although, I must say that every successful investor I know has gone through the experience of putting out bandit signs at 3am in the freezing cold. I also know that addressing and stuffing several thousand envelopes a month isn’t much fun either. But again, [...]
Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | May 28, 2011A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of May 21 – May 27, by the numbers: $1.695 Million – Sale price of Sarah Palin’s new Scottsdale, AZ home. The house was previously sold last year for $803,650. $1 Billion – Approximate sale price of a portfolio of commercial loans Allied [...]
Commentary by Jim Simcoe | May 27, 2011 
I am about the furthest you can get from being a green thumb. Even as a vegetarian I categorize veggies as ‘green’ or ‘not-green’ colored. I was a meat three times a day guy until I gave it up 10 years ago. Although I’m a green guy I am pretty far from those elitist only-eat-organic-god-forbid-I-have-a-carrot-that-wasn’t-grown-fair-trade-by-Uraguan-farmers-within-10-miles-of-my-house [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | May 26, 2011In this interview with Michael Zuber, a buy and hold investor who is based in San Francisco, but focused in the Fresno and Madera areas of California, we gain some great insight into the mindset of an experienced landlord. Michael shares his 10 years of experience and covers topics including the importance of having a [...]
Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | May 26, 2011 
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan Thomas Edison [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Ken Corsini | May 25, 2011 
Historically low real estate prices aren’t the only reason real estate investing can be so profitable right now and in the years to come. For those investors buying investment properties and planning to hold and rent for several years, the prospects for a strong rental market look good. It probably comes as no surprise that [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Kevin Kaczmarek | May 25, 2011Do you remember going through the process of getting your first mortgage? Sure, it was nice to look at the various houses, and ask the sales price, but, if you were like me, fresh out of college and not making nearly enough for my dream home, I needed a starting place. Someone wisely suggested I [...]
Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | May 24, 2011For the second edition of our real estate investor video interview series, we with an interview with Rob Gillespie aka Rob the House Guy. Rob has been investing for 15 years in Ohio and brings a unique perspective with his philosophy on how to become a success in this business. Rob can also be found [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | May 24, 2011If you don’t agree with the title, this post ain’t for you. You’re makin’ that ‘Huh? What?’ face, but given the actions of so many around the country, you’d think they don’t agree. In last week’s post in which I talked about combining two or more strategies synergistically to turbo charge both retirement income and [...]
Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | May 24, 2011 
I ran into an old acquaintance recently (someone who I hadn’t seen for a number of years), and she was bringing me up to date on the goings on in her life. Some unfortunate things had happened to her, but she also told me how happy she was to be purchasing a short sale in near [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Joe Salcedo | May 23, 2011 
“Productivity growth is a crucial source of growth in living standards. Productivity growth means more value is added in production and this means more income is available to be distributed.” This is the best time to be a real estate investor. Highly efficient systems allow us never-before-seen productivity that, wherever you are in America, in [...]
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by Jim Simcoe | May 27, 2011I am about the furthest you can get from being a green thumb. Even as a vegetarian I categorize veggies as ‘green’ or ‘not-green’ colored. I was a meat three times a day guy until I gave it up 10 years ago. Although I’m a green guy I am pretty far from those elitist only-eat-organic-god-forbid-I-have-a-carrot-that-wasn’t-grown-fair-trade-by-Uraguan-farmers-within-10-miles-of-my-house [...]