October 2011
Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | October 15, 2011A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of October 8 – October 14, by the numbers: May 1980 – The last time consumer’s economic outlook was at as low as it is now according to the new Reuters/University of Michigan poll. 610,337 – Total number of foreclosure filings in the third [...]
Real Estate Investing by Alan Noblitt | October 14, 2011In last week’s blog, I covered some of the main elements of creating and potentially selling a real estate note. In this segment, we’ll go over six other key areas that you should be aware of, particularly if you are considering owner financing. 1. When I called an investor about selling my note, he had [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Jeff Logue | October 13, 2011 
I just had a great conversation with a client today regarding how to use Google Adwords for real estate marketing. For those who haven’t tried using this platform before, it is much more complicated than picking a good set of keywords and driving traffic to your websites. With Google’s intense rules and guidelines, there are [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | October 13, 2011 
Highest and best. If I was competing in the Olympics for a gold medal in pole vaulting then I’d love to hear those two words together. But as a real estate investor when I hear highest and best my blood pressure starts to rise. My face turns red. My jaw tightens. Then I sit down [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Ken Corsini | October 12, 2011 
Last week I wrote a blog about what to expect when bidding on REO properties. For many new investors, bidding on REOs seems like the quickest and easiest way to buy an investment property. However, with competition from other investors on the rise, it has become increasingly difficult to buy an REO at the right [...]
Read the full article → Short Sales by Melissa Zavala | October 11, 2011 
In our local market in North San Diego County, most of the homes listed at the lower end of the financial spectrum receive multiple offers. I frequently get calls from agents asking what they should do with these offers, how they should evaluate them, whether they should write a counter offer and what it should [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | October 11, 2011 
First, let’s talk leverage. Better yet, let’s talk about the real definition. Hint: It’s not about down payment, not even close. In my experience, the vast majority of investors would say that, all things being equal, (A punch line to a bad joke if ever there was one.) a 10% down payment is a far [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | October 10, 2011 
Presale home inspections have been around since the early 1990’s, but have always been somewhat under-utilized in retail transactions. Having been previously in the home inspection business for many years, I can tell you that they were always a hard sell especially in the early days. Even as the years passed, the vast majority of [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Michael Zuber | October 10, 2011 
As a resident of the Silicon Valley my whole life I can tell you this week has been tough for a lot of friends and family. The Valley may produce some healthy competition between companies but all of us respect great leaders, great managers and especially great product guys. Put simply Steve Jobs was “The [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | October 9, 2011 
I’m a pretty strict landlord. When I first meet potential tenants I literally tell them not to fill out the application if they don’t plan on paying their rent on time or if they won’t treat the house with care, because my company will evict them in a heartbeat. There have been a few times [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | October 8, 2011A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of October 1 – October 7, by the numbers: 103,000 – Number of non-farm jobs added in September. It’s greater than the 60,000 economists expected. However, unemployment remained at 9.1% and the number of jobs added is less than the 150,000 economists say are [...]
Real Estate Investing by Alan Noblitt | October 7, 2011 
The economies of the U.S. and other developed countries continue to stumble, the stock market is trending downward and threatening to completely tank, and most literate citizens are slowly waking up to the fact that the governments that created this mess are only making it worse. The banks, seeing all of this happen and having [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | October 6, 2011It didn’t feel right. As I walked out of the print shop with 50 signs I couldn’t help but wonder if this plan would backfire on me. The huge decal on the back window of my Ford Expedition, the cheap little classified ads in the local Super Shopper – and now this. Little white signs [...]
Real Estate Investing by Ken Corsini | October 6, 2011Anybody who has bid on an REO foreclosure in the last year or so probably knows that getting one under contract isn’t what it used to be. A few years ago, buying an REO was a fairly straight forward process; i.e. make lowball bids, get counter offers from the bank and eventually settle on a [...]
Real Estate Investing by Kevin Kaczmarek | October 5, 2011 
Last week we talked about the various discounts you can give a note buyer in order to actually sell your note to an interested party. This week we’re going to talk about actually selling your note. To find a buyer, you either have to have a built-in network of buyers interested in notes or you [...]
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Joshua DorkinMarty Boardman
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Ken Corsini
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Jason HansonKevin Kaczmarek
Douglas Lazovick
Jeff Logue
Sharon Vornholt
Richard WarrenMelissa Zavala
Michael Zuber
