June 2011

Landlords: 9 Key Clauses to Include in Your Leases

by Peter Giardini | June 30, 2011

This week has been a forceful reminder for me of the importance of a well written lease when dealing with tenant issues, and I am very grateful that a well written lease has been available when needed. Let me explain… Several months ago I negotiated a commercial lease for one of my clients, where this [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Shop for Real Estate Assets, Not Liabilities

by Marty Boardman | June 30, 2011

It’s time for me to come clean. I love to shop. Not for clothes or jewelry. That would mean immediate revocation of my man card. No, I like to browse for gizmos, gadgets and toys. High tech or low tech, it doesn’t matter. On Sundays I sit at my kitchen table flipping through the slick [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Turn-Key Property Investing: An Interview with Ken Corsini

by Joshua Dorkin | June 29, 2011

Ken Corsini is a real estate investor and founder of Georgia Residential Partners, a Turn-Key property investment firm. In our interview with Ken (12:56 minutes), we get into topics including why to get into turn-key properties, who might consider these investments, the benefits and negatives of a turn-key property investment, what to expect with these [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Creative Financing For Lease Purchase Tenants

by Ken Corsini | June 29, 2011

Whether or not you actively work with lease purchasers, there will probably come a point in your investing career when one of your tenants will want to buy your property from you. As far as I’m concerned, every investment property that I own is for sale. If the price is right I will always entertain [...]

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Real Estate Investing

In This Market Only Buy Notes for their Asset Value

by Kevin Kaczmarek | June 29, 2011

When we talk about being a note investor we have to be very careful not to overpay for the note, and while it might go without saying, if you are just getting started out investing in seller financed notes, only buy the note at its asset value. Using real estate thinking, only buy the note [...]

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Foreclosures

Musings on Cash for Keys & Foreclosures

by Melissa Zavala | June 28, 2011

Agents, homebuyers and individuals facing foreclosure frequently ask me about this thing called ‘cash for keys.’ Somebody’s uncle’s cousin’s sister told someone that they can get ‘cash for keys’ if the property goes to foreclosure, and homeowners generally want to know whether this is true. And, yes, in a nutshell, it’s true. What is Cash [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Real Estate Investors: How to Build an Effective Website

by Joe Salcedo | June 28, 2011

I was recently reading an article on the New York Times, “What would you do if you threw a $41 million party and nobody came? It talks about a group of venture capitalists investing in a start up, color.com While reading I came across venture capitalists behemoths Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital Ventures. If these [...]

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Flipping Houses

A Flipper’s Retirement – An Oxymoronic Phrase

by Jeff Brown | June 28, 2011

Over the years I’ve benefitted by flipping various kinds of real estate. In fact, the only category I haven’t rehabbed for a profit is a house. 2-4 units, small apartment buildings, even a medical building once. In fact, that one was my favorite. I’m not the flipping type, but those who do it well have [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investors: Buying a Little Freedom

by Andrew C. MacDonald | June 27, 2011

If you ask people why they invest in real estate, one of the top answers you’ll get is freedom. Contrary to this driving force of wanting more freedom, many investors self-manage and end up instead limiting their own freedom. Freedom Obstacles In my article Building Your Real Estate Investment Team – Part 7: Selecting a [...]

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Housing

The Week in Housing: Existing Home Sales, Interest Rates, and New Home Sales

by Ryan Hinricher | June 27, 2011

Interest Rates: Flat For two weeks now, interest rates are flat, according to the most recent survey by Freddie Mac. The 30 year fixed mortgage rate was unchanged at 4.5%. Last year at this time the 30 year fixed mortgage rate averaged 4.69%. The 15 year fixed mortgage rate was up slightly this week to [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The 10 Documents You Need for Your Lease Option Deals

by Jason Hanson | June 26, 2011

Real estate investing involves a lot of paperwork, especially if you want to keep yourself out of trouble and make sure you’re thoroughly protected in every deal you do. For instance, in every lease option deal I do, I end up using 10 different documents and I’m going to briefly cover all of those documents [...]

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Real Estate

Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of June 18 – June 24

by Douglas Lazovick | June 25, 2011

A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of June 18 – June 24, by the numbers: 3.8% – Decline in existing home sales in May from the previous month. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million existing home sales in May is down from the 5 million annual rate [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Lease Options: Gold Mine or Fools Gold?

by Marty Boardman | June 24, 2011

Have you heard what an ounce of gold is selling for these days? According to GoldPrice.org it’s around $1,552. That’s a 176-year high. Back in 2007, when the housing market first started its downward spiral, gold was worth approximately $600 an ounce. I’m no financial expert but it appears to me that this gold buying [...]

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Commentary

The Double-Dip… It’s Finally Here!

by Peter Giardini | June 23, 2011

Back in March of 2010 I wrote an article for BiggerPockets, Double-Dip Used To Be Fun and Exciting, discussing the prominent view that the housing market was eventually going to head back into declining values. This new (for those who ever believed that things stabilized) property value decline has been affectionately referred to as a “double-dip”. The focus of [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Title Insurance

by Ken Corsini | June 23, 2011

Over the past few years I have been involved in hundreds of real estate transactions but only recently have I given thought to the importance of title insurance. I knew in theory that the possibility existed for an old title issue to crop up and a claim made on the policy, but really never gave [...]

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