Archives
This archive lists every blog article ever posted on the site, sorted by month. Enjoy!
February 2012
- Motivated Door Knocker has 88% Conversion Rate
- Building a Pipeline of Short Sales
- How the Robo-signing Settlement will Affect You
- Purposefully Planning Your Retirement – What Is Time To You?
- The Evolution of Short Sales
- Response Rates for Direct Mail at Different Times of Year
- Our Real Estate Investing Model in Detail
- So You Want to be a Landlord? Really?
- Property Management: Offense, Defense and Special Teams
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of January 28 – February 3
- Even Note Investing Has Guru Traps
- How We Improved Our Facebook Ad’s CTR by 2,000%
- Real Estate Investment Schools of Thought Vary – As Does Their Mileage
- Bulk Sales of GSE Foreclosures Begin
- Know The Flood Zone Before You Buy
- Foreclosure Update: Happier Days on the Way for Judicial States
- Are Housing Solutions Really Part of the Real Estate Problem?
- Why I’m Getting Sued by a Tenant
- Investment Property Valuation: Residential vs Commercial
January 2012
- What’s Going on in REO World?
- Life Changing Mentors
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of January 21 – January 27
- Make Agents Your Seller Financing Allies
- How to Buy Real Estate after a Strategic Default
- 5 List-Building Strategies For Wholesalers
- 4 Tips for Creating Killer Real Estate Marketing Emails
- Mortgage Notes – A Hard “Land-ing”
- America’s Love/Hate Affair with Investors
- Attention Cash Buyers With Cheap, Free ‘n Clear Rental Homes
- Building the Ideal Real Estate Investor’s Buyer’s List
- Advertising on the top of a cab?
- Pre-Approved Short Sales: Are They Real?
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of January 14 – January 20
- 4 Ways to Build a Strong Real Estate Investing Financial Education Today
- Time to Let Underwater Homeowners Drown
- Appreciation or Cash Flow — Which is Better?
- Will SOPA & PIPA Stifle Online Marketing?
- SFR: Birth of a Category
- What’s the End Game Of Your Investment Plan? Is Your Plan Congruent With It?
- Real Estate Investing is About More Than The ‘Doom & Gloom’ of the Media Headlines
- When Your Short Sale Takes a Detour
- Should You Allow Pets in Your Rental Property?
- The Four Money Buckets That Will Lead You to The Good Life
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of January 7 – January 13
- A Cliché’ Every New Real Estate Investor Should Know
- What is the Reverse Squeeze Page?
- Property Values and Mortgage Notes
- Keys to Getting Started in Multifamily Apartment Investing
- Don’t Get Stuck on Asking Price
- 5 Absolute Rules For Being a Great Landlord
- Can Home Values and Foreclosures Live Happily Ever After?
- Retiring At A Far Reduced Income When Retired Is Simply Not Required
- Goals and Awesomeness
- Does the Short Sale Have a Future?
- Why The Real Estate Guru’s Don’t Want Me Talking
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of December 31 – January 6
- The Formula for Building Wealth and Massive Cash Flow in Real Estate Investing
- What’s in a [Deed] Name? An Exploration of Deeds and Warranties
- The Role of Credit Scores in Mortgage Note Investing
- Real Estate Investors: Who Moved Your Cheese?
- The Secret to Real Estate Investing Success
- Don’t Compromise Your Real Estate Strategy for the Sake of Buying
- If I were designing a Real Estate Investing Course
- Sacrifice – Key to Successful Investing while Holding a Full-Time Job
- 2 Nasty Tax Surprises For Many Real Estate Investors – And They’re Nothing New
- The Best Way To Project Your Future…Create It!
- Real Estate Marketing: The Story of the 109 Year Old Blogger
- Will 2012 Be the Year of the Short Sale?
- The Difference Investors Make
- Importance of Rental Property Maintenance
- Five Reasons Why I Keep My Full Time Job while Investing in Real Estate
- Evolving Focus from Simply Profit to People
- Why You Need to Check on Your Rental Properties
- Mistakes and Lessons Learned; The School of Hard Knocks
- Goals for 2012
December 2011
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of December 24 – December 30
- The Case for Being a Realtor and Investor
- If You’re Going To Be A Landlord . . . Do It Right From Day 1!
- Using Real Estate Investment Strategies – THE Commandment
- The Latest on the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Conference 2012
- Rental Outlook 2012: The Good Times Roll on
- Short Sale Agents Can Be Your Best Pals
- 2011 Investor Wrap Up
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of December 17 – December 23
- Growing Your Real Estate Investing Business
- Who Said Your Real Estate Marketing Videos Had to be Perfect?
- End of Year Bittersweet for this Real Estate Investor
- Turn Likes Into Leads With Facebook Real Estate Marketing
- How To Train A Property Management Company
- 3 Loan Programs to Help Sell Your Investment Property
- Lessons Learned From Hard Times – A Gift
- 6 Tips for Keeping Your Business on Track While Working From Home
- Short Sale Info for Your Christmas Stocking
- Twilight of the Foreclosure Time
- What You Hopefully Opened on Christmas
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of December 10 – December 16
- The Sweet Spot in Mortgage Notes
- Fixing and Flipping: It’s a Numbers Game
- What if Clark Griswold Bought & Sold Real Estate?
- Keeping Your Nose Clean When Flipping Short Sales
- Continuing Your Education is Key for Real Estate Entrepreneurial Success
- The Real Estate Investor Retirement Recovery Window – Two Years Old
- With Short Sales, Is the Lien Holder Part of the Problem?
- How to Make Your Seller Finance Offers FAR More Appealing
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of December 3 – December 9
- Mortgage Notes – Getting to Know the Customer’s Needs
- “Mini-Model” Leasing Strategy will fill Vacancies Fast in Multi-Family Apartment Buildings for Under $200
- When Making Offers on Real Estate, When Does ‘No’ Really Mean NO?
- Dipping Your Toe Into the World of Seller Financing
- How to Setup Foreclosure Based Real Estate Marketing Squeeze Pages
- A Niche In the Short Sale Game
- ‘Customer Service’ is Essential for Real Estate Success
- Still Believe Your 401k Is a Main Cog In Your Retirement Income Plan? Think Again
- Are You a Slacker or A Finisher?
- Musings on the ‘Cash Is King’ Mentality
- What to Get Your Tenants for the Holidays
- Evicting Your Tenants without Using a Forklift
- Look Both Ways Before You Walk
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of November 26 – December 2
- The 4 Big Fix and Flip Mistakes
- Mortgage Notes – Dealing with other loans
- Self-Help Evictions: What You Should NEVER Do as a Landlord
- Spoof: What It’s Like to be a Realtor
- Pricing Your Seller Financed Property
- The Harder you Work the Better Business Gets
- Three Warren Buffett Quotes that I follow in my Real Estate Business
- Learn from our Deal of the Year
- Advice for New Real Estate Investors Just Starting Out
November 2011
- 3 Things I Look For In a Lender
- Turn-Key Real Estate – Who Should and Should Not Buy Turn-Key Properties
- Investors: Lower Your Taxes – Here’s How
- Can I Buy this Short Sale?
- Why Real Estate Investors Pay More for Investments with Lower Returns
- How to Make Sure You Have a Qualified Home Inspector
- The 4 Pillars of Highly Effective Squeeze Pages
- Do More Deals: How Writing Offers is Like Dating
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of November 19 – November 25
- Develop a Long-Term Strategy Before Deciding Where To Invest
- Short Sales – The Clock Is Ticking
- Tips for Negotiating with Motivated Landlord Sellers
- Why Should Your Work with Real Estate Wholesalers?
- Deferred Maintenance – A Silent Cash Flow Killer
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of November 12 – November 18
- Are You A Real Estate Rehab Investor With Too Much Cash?
- Selling Part of a Note: How Partial Notes Work
- Why Note Owners Can Be Motivated Sellers
- The Residential Appraisal Problem
- Realtor Falls Down & Video Goes Totally Viral!
- Increase Cash Flow by Appealing Your Property Taxes
- All I Want for Christmas is a New Investment Property
- Retirement Is 10-20 Years Away – Are You Ready?
- Capitalization Rate – Techniques to Speed Up Your Decision Making, Part III
- A Good Short Sale Listing Agent Will Do Lots of Triage
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of November 5 – November 11
- The New Way to Market to Probates
- My Three Biggest Mistakes as a Real Estate Investor
- Everyone can WIN with Self-Directed IRA Investing
- Protecting Your Mortgage Note
- 24: The Fix and Flip Edition
- Does Google Consider Real Estate SEO Marketing to be Spammy?
- Forget Real Estate Appreciation, Just Call it Recovery
- Gross Rent Multiplier – Techniques to Speed Up Your Decision Making, Part II
- Passively Investing in Real Estate is Critical for Retirement
- Will Equity Investors Save the Economy?
- Fall of a Property Manager: The Rest of the Story
- Why Last Week’s Wholesale Deal Didn’t Close
- Wholesalers: How to Close A Real Estate Deal with an Out of State Seller
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of October 29 – November 4
- Real Estate To 2016 and Beyond
- Rental Property Inspections: 4 Kinds and Why They Are Important
- What is your Real Estate Acquisition Strategy?
- 3 Important Trades Where Licensed Professionals Should Be Used
- The Perfect Craigslist Ad?
- Price per Unit – Techniques to Speed Up Your Decision Making, Part I
- Short Sales With No Cost to Sellers – Is it Possible?
- How to Maximize Retirement Income with Real Estate Through Investment & Tax Strategies
- Evaluating a Real Estate Wholesale Deal: A Deal in Progress
- Baby Boomers are Screwed. Or Are They?
- Can You Pay MORE and Get a Better Deal?
October 2011
- Is There A “Magic Pill” for Real Estate Marketing Success?
- Trick or Treat: Real Estate Investing in 2012
- Real Estate in 2016
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of October 22 – October 28
- Massive Denial Blocks Real Estate Recovery
- Proven 3 Step Process to Improve Sales & Customer Satisfaction
- What’s Your Time Worth?
- Investment Property Location: Don’t Dismiss the #1 Rule in Real Estate
- How to Be a Distinguished Note Owner
- How to Actually Close a Short Sale
- Do-It-Yourselfers Are Excellent At Reproducing Similar Results of Mediocre Pros
- Using Testimonials To Build Your Real Estate Business
- BiggerPockets.com Turns 7 – Happy Birthday!
- The Halloween Deal Finding Real Estate Marketing Plan
- Finding Equity in Mortgage Notes
- Traces of Smoke in Silicon Valley and Other Real Estate News Out Here in the West
- Landlords: How to Deal with a Negligent Property Manager
- Fixing and Flipping Houses is Sexy
- How to Find the Best Commercial Apartment Deals
- Real Estate Syndication with Single Family Properties
- Three Mistakes New Real Estate Investors Make and How to Avoid Them
- Research Reveals That Most Real Estate Marketing Leads Are Lost
- Note Investing: Go Forth and Hypothecate!
- Short Sale Contracts: Keys to Success
- How to Find Real Buyers for Your Wholesale Deals
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of October 8 – October 14
- What Business Are You Really In?
- How to Determine Your Multifamily Capital Expense Budgets and Recurring Replacement Reserves
- Small Multifamily Properties = Big Profits
- Real Estate Notes: Buying, Selling, Discounts, Partial Notes and More
- Highest and Best: Two Words to Loathe and Love
- Using Wholesalers To Acquire Investment Property
- 4 Steps for Using Google AdWords in Your Real Estate Marketing Plan
- Exploring Leverage: All Things Begin Equal – Sorry, But They’re Anything But Equal
- Are Investor Buyers the Key to Economic Recovery?
- The Value of Presale Home Inspections for Real Estate Investors
- How to Wholesale a Property when You’re Starting Out
- What Can Real Estate Investors Learn From Steve Jobs?
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of October 1 – October 7
- Top 7 Answers About Real Estate Notes
- Bandit Signs: The Ugly Way to Advertise Your Real Estate Business
- What to Expect When Bidding on REO Foreclosures
- 2 Reasons Most Real Estate Investors’ Goal of Magnificently Abundant Retirement Will Fall Woefully Short
- Understanding the Opportunity Costs of Real Estate Investing
- Note Brokers: How to Find the Experienced Ones and Avoid the Time Wasters
- Fact or Fiction – Pre-Approved Short Sales
- Landlords: How To Make Extra Rental Income with Late Rent Payments
- Take the Emotion Out of Flipping Houses
- 7 Impacts of Green Real Estate Investing
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of September 24 – September 30
- Ten Tips for Selling a Tenant Occupied House
- Critical Time Management Tips For Landlords and Investors
- Real Estate Investing while Holding a Full Time Job
September 2011
- Ruthless Execution In An Uncertain Market for Real Estate Investors
- Mortgage Notes and Too Big to Fail Banks
- A Glossary for Today’s Real Estate Investor
- Wait for Clear Title Before Spending Money
- Don’t Be Seduced By Real Estate Investment’s Version of Hide the Pea
- Negotiating a Short Sale Is Like Eating a Chocolate Bacon Cupcake
- Understanding Probate Real Estate: Investing Tips, Marketing Advice
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of September 17 – September 23
- The Advantages & Disadvantages of Buying Mortgage Notes
- Why Northern Nevada’s Ripe with Cashflow Profits
- How to Avoid a Haircut on your Note
- If You Can’t Find Real Estate Financing, Find a Partner.
- Real Estate Investing Education in the Information Age
- Principles of Investing Aren’t Always What They Seem
- Short Sales and Strategic Default
- 3 Different Ways to Close a Subject-To Deal
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of September 10 – September 16
- The Value of Real Estate Investors to a Community!
- How a Broken Education System Affects Real Estate
- Boosting Appraisal Values on Green Homes
- The Win-Win Nature of Rent to Own
- Staying Positive as a Real Estate Investor
- In Real Estate Variety Can Be the Spice of Failure
- What is ARV or “After Repair Value”?
- Using Cost Per Square Foot When Evaluating an Investment Property
- Does It Have To Be Real Estate Investors VS Home Inspectors?
- Property Location Quality Is THE Most Disrespected Fundamental
- Why Short Sales Don’t Always Close
- 4 Tips for Surefire Business Success
- Selling Oklahoma
- Interview with Chris Clothier of Memphis Invest: Turn-Key Real Estate Investments & Landlording
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of September 3 – September 9
- Note Investing & Usury Laws: Don’t Get Bit By A Loan Shark!
- How Do You Find a Real Estate Investing Mentor?
- Your 401(k)/IRA VS Half As Much In Your Pocket
- How to Avoid Water and Flooding Damage on your Investment Properties
- Are Real Estate Agent Designations Worth the Money?
- Deciding When to Sell Your Rental Property
- Should You Buy Your Own House or An Investment Property First?
- Is Active Real Estate Investing the “Only” Option?
- A Call To Action…
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of August 27 – September 2
- Are Home Inspections Really Necessary for Real Estate Investors?
- The Golden Year & Economic Highlights from the Past Week
- Private Money: When 18% is Less than 12%
- Can Real Estate Investors Deduct Travel Expenses? Yes, but . . .
- Real Estate Investing and the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
- 5 Things Private Money Lenders Want to Know Before Investing With You!
- What Would You do if You Were Starting to Invest in Real Estate Today?
- Labor Day: Who is Laboring Harder, You or Your Money???
August 2011
- Interview with Commercial Real Estate Investor, Joel Owens on Multifamily & Retail Investments
- The Importance of Having a Capital Expense Budget when Buying a Property
- Retirement Income – Great Results? Compared To What?
- Short Sale Approval Letters and the Issue of Deficiency
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of August 20 – August 26
- The Real Estate Investor’s Realtor: What Should You Expect?
- Government Intervention — and We Landlords are The Targets!
- 3 Important Factors When Considering A Market for Real Estate Investment
- Real Estate Investors: Learn To Take What The Market Is Giving You
- Turning a Non-Performing Note into a Rental Property and a Good Deed
- Scuba Diving Principles for Real Estate Investors – Part 2: The Plan
- Short Sales – Pre-Qualifying the Seller
- Real Estate Preparedness Lessons from the Recent Earthquake
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of August 13 – August 19
- Real Estate Investing in College Towns: Top 10 List Revealed
- Lost in Never-Ending Space
- Dealing in Notes
- Fixing and Flipping vs. Buying and Holding
- Interview with Kevin Kaczmarek on Note Investing, SDIRAs, and Starting Out in Real Estate
- Make Sure your Real Estate Investing Acquisition Strategy is Up to Date
- What 20-Somethings Can Teach Us About Real Estate Investing
- Are Short Sales Getting Easier?
- Using Your Rental Property Neighbors to Protect Your Interests
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of August 6 – August 12
- Are You Getting Ready to Get Ready to Invest in Real Estate?
- Focus, Consistency and Follow-up Equals Your Success As A Real Estate Investor!
- The U.S. Credit Rating – Slip Sliding Away …
- Low Interest Rates Make for Great Long Term Investments
- Banks will not lend! What to Do With Balloon Payments
- The Nordstrom Experience – Real Estate Investor Edition
- Scuba Diving Principles for Real Estate Investors
- Short Sales – Working with Those Who Can
- How to Use The Pay Rent or Quit Notice when the Rent is Late
- Is Your Significant Other On Board With Your Harebrained House Flipping Scheme?
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of July 30 – August 5
- Fixing the USS USA Before It Sinks
- Defining a “True” Real Estate Wholesaler
- The Importance of “Skin in the Game” in Real Estate
- When Seller Financing is Too Much Leverage
- Interview with Jonathan Rivera on Real Estate Investing, Social Media & Marketing
- Location and Age Now VS At Retirement – Game Changers?
- Buying a Short Sale Is Not Like Shopping at the 99 Cents Only Store
- How Sending Cards in the Mail Can Win You More Real Estate Deals
July 2011
- Who is Running Your Real Estate Business?
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of July 23 – July 29
- Stephan Gietl of the mckafka Development Group on the South Florida Real Estate Market
- How to Spot a Wholesale Real Estate Pretender
- Including Principal Pay Down in Your Calculations
- Super Low Price? Double Digit Cap Rates? Hellllo Common Sense
- Getting Clear on Property Management Expectations
- Reading the Title Report Can Save You from a World of Trouble
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of July 16 – July 22
- 6 Suggestions on How to Avoid Being Dominated by Your Tenants
- Real Estate Investing Over the Decades: An Interview with Jeff Brown
- Banks and the Games they Play with their REO Properties
- Seller Financing: Three Kinds Available to You
- A Bumpy Road Ahead for Real Estate
- Using Seller Financing to Acquire Properties Still Works
- 5 Common Mistakes that Beginning Real Estate Investors Make
- It’s Time To Revisit Cash Flow VS Growth – It’s ALL About Timing
- 4 Steps to Determine Your Real Estate Investment Strategy
- Purchasing Bank-Owned Properties – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- How to Survive Termite Problems in a Rental Property
- Paulina Porizkova, Small Towns and Green Money
- Landlords: Are You Protected When You Enter Your Rental Properties?
- The Fix and Flip Fisherman
- Real Estate Note Investing 101: An Interview with Loc Rao
- Is the SAFE ACT an Urban Legend?
- Offering Terms Will Set Your Property Apart
- Your Results Are Solid? OK, But Are They What They Could, Should Be?
- Top 5 Questions About Short Sales
- The Two Types of Rent to Own: Advantages & Disadvantages
- My Leaky AC Unit and How It Got Fixed
- Lazy Doesn’t Buy Houses: Making Offers to Seemingly Unmotivated Sellers
- Getting the Bank to Say Yes! An Interview with Greg Brister
- Insurance and Your Real Estate Note
- Be Careful When Using A Quit Claim Deed
- How Flippers Can Generate A Magnificently Abundant Retirement
- Junior Lien Holders and Short Sales
- Separate Your Real Estate Income
- Declare Your Real Estate Independence
- Did You Take Advantage of the Fourth of July Marketing Opportunity?
- The Week in Housing: Home Prices, Pending Home Sales, and Interest Rates
- Adopt a ‘Why I Shouldn’t do this Real Estate Deal’ Attitude
- The 11 Documents to Use When Getting a Tenant for Your Lease Option Deal
June 2011
- Landlords: 9 Key Clauses to Include in Your Leases
- Turn-Key Property Investing: An Interview with Ken Corsini
- In This Market Only Buy Notes for their Asset Value
- Shop for Real Estate Assets, Not Liabilities
- Creative Financing For Lease Purchase Tenants
- A Flipper’s Retirement – An Oxymoronic Phrase
- Real Estate Investors: Buying a Little Freedom
- The Week in Housing: Existing Home Sales, Interest Rates, and New Home Sales
- Musings on Cash for Keys & Foreclosures
- Real Estate Investors: How to Build an Effective Website
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of June 18 – June 24
- The Double-Dip… It’s Finally Here!
- Lease Options: Gold Mine or Fools Gold?
- Believe What’s Being Sold – OR – Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes
- Interview with House Flipper & Real Estate Rehabber: Tom Tarrant
- Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Title Insurance
- Exit Strategies For Notes That Work: Without Foreclosure
- Manufacturing Equity in Multi-Family Properties with The Rule of 150
- The Week in Housing: New Construction Report, Interest Rates, Builder Confidence
- The 10 Documents You Need for Your Lease Option Deals
- Your In-Depth Lease Option Questions Answered
- Interview with Real Estate Investor: John Fedro on Mobile Homes
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of June 11 – June 17
- ‘Investors’ and Short Sales: Who Owns the Note?
- Green Appraisal Trends for Real Estate Investors
- Three Alternative Marketing Techniques for Leasing Your Property
- Comparative Recessions And The Real Estate Investor
- Interview with Real Estate Investor: Joey Ragona (yep, he’s Canadian!)
- The Week in Housing: Lower Rates, Negative Equity, and Homeowner Confidence
- 3 Steps to Get Your Rental Property to be Rent Ready
- Highest and Best Short Sale Offers – Is there such a thing?
- A Family Recipe for Buying Houses at the Courthouse Steps
- How Not to Turn Into a Turn Key Real Estate Economist
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of June 4 – June 10
- 9 Standards to Help Landlords Approve or Reject Tenants
- Real Estate Day Trading at the Courthouse Steps
- Five Pitfalls To Avoid In Note Investing
- Interview with Hard Money Lender & Real Estate Investor: Kevin Amolsch
- HVCC Regulations & What’s the Deal with Appraisals?
- Time’s Your Friend – Till It’s Not
- The Week in Housing: The Double-Dip; Where do we go from here?
- What Woodward and Bernstein Can Teach Us About Short Sales
- Real Estate Bubbles: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
- How I Structure My Lease Option Deals
- Is Economic Ignorance Bliss for Real Estate Investors?
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of May 28 – June 3
- Home Energy Audits Explained
- Interview with CPA & Real Estate Investor: Charles Perkins
- Real Estate Investors: 5 Things To Know Before Talking To Sellers
- 8 Tips For Screening Out Professional Tenants: Your Worst Nightmare!
- Using Seller Financing for those Fix and Flip Deals
- Interest Rates: A Critically Important Factor for Real Estate Investors
- Knee-Jerk Wisdom Can Be the Most Expensive
- Investors: Here’s Why You Must “Clean” Your Mailing Lists
May 2011
- Interview with New York Investor: Mark Updegraff
- Leaving a Legacy With Real Estate
- A Short Sale Is Like an Everlasting Gobstopper
- The Week in Housing: Pending Home Sales, Interest Rates, Delinquency, and More
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of May 21 – May 27
- Interview with California Investor & Landlord: Michael Zuber
- Add Value to Your Investment Properties with Organic Gardens
- Get Note Pre-Approval Before the Deal
- Are You Willing to Lose in Order to Win?
- More Renters + Increasing Rents = Good Time to Invest
- BiggerPockets Interview with Investor Rob Gillespie
- Retirement Is About Creating Stable/Abundant Cash Flow and Net Worth
- Buying a Short Sale? Caveat Emptor
- A Simple and Free Way to Find Real Estate Deals
- How to Keep Your Momentum with Your Real Estate Marketing
- Where to Find Real Estate Investment Opportunities
- The Week in Housing: Delinquency, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, and more.
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of May 14 – May 21
- Looking for a Good Real Estate Deal? It’s a Numbers Game
- Landlords: How to Proceed when The Rent is Late?
- BiggerPockets Interview with Investor James Vermillion
- Heart Smart Note Investing
- Another Way to Invest IRA Money in Real Estate
- Synergistic Strategies – 15 Years To A Magnificently Abundant Retirement –
- How to Automate Your Real Estate Bookkeeping
- REOs & Short Sales: A Steal or a Deal?
- Negative Equity, CoreLogic’s Home Price Index, Interest Rates, and more: The Week in Housing
- Florida Brings About (Not Enough) Change to its LLC Statute
- 4 Tips on How To Value Green Property Improvements
- Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of May 7 – May 13
- The Call Every Real Estate Investor Will Eventually Get
- Is your Seller Financed Note in RESPA Compliance?
- Mold Shouldn’t Scare Real Estate Investors
- What’s Possible For Many In 15 Short Years? Harnessing Real Synergy
- Are You A Little Too Comfortable?
- Tightening Rental Market, Lower Rates, Home Prices and More: The Week in Housing
- Celebrate Your Wins to Create More Success
- Going Rogue – Is it Worth It?
- Direct Mail Tip: How & Why You Should Track Your Direct Mail Marketing
- Six Steps to Green Any Property
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 30 – May 6
- I Want to be a Hard Money Lender When I Grow Up
- Determining a True Sales Price with Seller Financing
- Not all Investment Properties are Created Equal
- Where Do The Lines Cross? Discounting Price Isn’t The Universal Fix-All
- Local Supply And Demand Trends In Real Estate
- Real Estate Investors: Stay Afloat With Cash Flow
- Pending Home Sales, Home Prices, Vacancy Rates, and more: The Week in Housing
- Murphy’s Law of Short Sales
- Cancel the Wake for Las Vegas Real Estate
- Some Thoughts about Direct Mail and Real Estate Investing
- How Far Away Should You Invest in Property?
April 2011
- How to Raise Money for Green Real Estate Projects
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 23 – April 29
- Riches in Niches: A Real Life Landlord Success Story!
- Investors Reject Speakers Marketing at Real Estate Club Meetings
- When Flipping it’s the FHA’s Way or the Highway
- Have a Potential Buyer but Need more Convincing?
- How to Deal with Delinquent Tenants
- Knowing What’s What Isn’t Important – It’s Crucial for Retirement
- There is No Perfect Deal
- How to Choose the Best Offer on Your Short Sale
- Existing Home Sales, Housing Starts, Builder Confidence and more: The Week in Housing
- The DNA of a Real Estate Trail Blazer: Introducing Rob Grant
- Changing the Real Estate Investing Industry One Person at a Time
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 16 – April 22
- Another Day at the Auction – 3 Houses, 3 Tales – The Rest of the Story
- Investing In Notes Is Not A One-and-Done Commitment
- Five Reasons Why I like Lease Purchases
- Real Estate Is Local: A Tale Of Two Cities
- STOP! Don’t Cut Up Your Credit Cards if You Care About Your Credit
- If Purchasing Park Place Was Really That Easy….
- Think You’ve Seen This Movie Before? Beware The Plot Twist
- Interest Rates Creep Up, a Big Decline in Foreclosures, and more: The Week in Housing
- Why I Told Him Not to Wholesale This Deal
- An Investor’s Search for Intellectual Honesty
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 9 – April 15
- What Colin Powell and Mark Cuban Can Teach You About Green Real Estate Investing
- The Best Real Estate Investing Advice I Ever Got
- A Note Buyers Checklist
- How To Measure Real Estate Appreciation In Your Housing Market
- Flipping Real Estate is Wonderful Till The Thousand Yard Stare Appears
- Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Hard Money
- How To Save Time With Opportunity Filters
- When Buying a Short Sale as an Investment, Remember the Boy Scout Motto
- Vacancy Rates, Price Declines, Interest Rates, and Mortgage Applications: The Week in Housing
- Why You Must Have an Arsenal of Options
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of April 2 – April 8
- Green Real Estate Investing Trends Q2 2011
- Finding Success by Doing the Ordinary in an Extraordinary Way
- Pick the Better Investment: Which Door Did you Choose??
- Hey Real Estate Investors! Are You Acting Like A Business?
- Do Schools Really Affect Property Values?
- Why Investors need Realtors and Vice Versa
- The Real Estate Guru Trap – How It Works & 4 Ways to Avoid It
- Has the Time Come to Get a Smokin’ Hot Deal on a Short Sale?
- Home Prices, Interest Rates, and my Question to Maria Bartiromo: The Week in Housing
- Selling Your Real Estate Because You Want To
- Cash Ain’t Always King – It’s About Timing and Strategy
- How much money do you want to make?
- Green Questions from a Real Estate Investor Like You
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of March 26 – April 1
- Why You Need to Have Cash Reserves
March 2011
- The Ultimate Guide to Screening Tenants
- It Takes a Track Record to Raise Capital for Buying Real Estate
- Pick the Better Investment: Get Interactive on BiggerPockets
- Real Estate Predictions: What’s Up For The Next 5 Years for Investors?
- US Census Has Valuable Information For Real Estate Investors
- Finding Real Estate Financing: 3 Ways to Practice Your Pitch
- Existing Home Sales, New Home Sales, Interest Rates, and more: The Week in Housing
- Top 5 Short Sale Questions Answered
- Marmoleum Green Flooring: Benefits
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of March 19 – March 25
- Real Estate Professional Status: The IRS Has Read Sun Tzu
- How Hanging Ceiling Fans Resurrected My Real Estate Career
- Get your Slice of the Land Contract Pie with a Partial Note
- Are You Willing To Bet Your Retirement On Your Local Market?
- Let Go to Grow: Building Systems to Expand Your Real Estate Business
- Foreclosure Sales Provide Insight Into Housing Recovery
- Short Sales: The Times, They Are A-Changin
- Short Sales – How Investors Can Avoid Perils and Pitfalls
- Successful Traits and Actions of Green Real Estate Investors
- Housing Starts, Builder Confidence, Vacant Homes and more: The Week in Housing
- How to Run Your Real Estate Investing Business on Your Own Terms
- Considerations for April 15, 2011 Tax Deadline
- Landlord’s Guide to Security Deposit Best Practices
- The Time to Accumulate Assets is Now…Wealth is within your Grasp!
- Real Estate Investing Assists In Paying For Your Child’s College
- The Real Estate Investor’s Guide to Understanding Property Inspection Reports
- Learning from Bubbles: A Look at Housing Bubbles Worldwide
- Short Sales: Dealing with Buyers Hanging Out on the Fence
- Home Price Declines (still news?), a Startling Stat from the Fed, and more: The Week in Housing
- The #1 Newspaper Marketing Technique for Real Estate Investors
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of March 5 – March 13
- Riches in Niches: A Guide To Greater Rental Property Cash-flow!
- Now Taking Real Estate Questions from the Class
- Green Real Estate Certifications Explained
- What a Private Mortgage Market Could Mean to You
- All Good Pitchers Throw Strikes — All High Cap Rates?
- Real Estate Is Local (Except When It Isn’t)
- Commentary: Foreclosure – The Human Element
- Are Your Real Estate Files Safe?
- Pending Home Sales, Delinquency, Interest Rates and More: The Week in Housing
- Short Sale Negotiating with Fannie and Freddie
- Targeting Tired Landlords with Subject To Deals
- Las Vegas: Zappos, 500-Foot Ferris Wheels, and…Real Estate?
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of February 26 – March 4
- Green Rebate Links for Real Estate Investors
- Friendly Liens to Hide Equity
- The Incredible Vanishing Bulk REO Seller
- 5 Solutions to the Most Common Mistakes When Raising Private Money
- Installment Sales or Dealer Status: Be on the Right Side of the Fence
- Richard A. Smith – Real Estate’s Nostradamus?
- Finding Fair Market Rents & Vacancy Rates: Boots, Clipboards, And REAL Research
- You May Need More than a Batphone to Call the Short Sale Lien Holder
- Finding Quality Tenants: Winning Through Intimidation
February 2011
- 3 Steps to Make Your First Real Estate Investment
- Home Prices, Interest Rates, and Existing Home Sales: The Week in Housing
- The Benefits of Green Multi-Family
- Landlords: 8 Tips for Hiring the Best Property Manager
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of February 19-25
- Should Real Estate Investors Care About the Case-Shiller Home Price Index?
- Note Lead Generation Sources that Work for You!
- Newbie Wholesalers: READ THIS!
- It’s Really Not Something A Woman Can Do
- How Cash Flow VS Capital Growth Mirrors Bodybuilding VS Weight Lifting
- Writing a Hardship Letter: Questions that Sellers Should Consider
- Flat Builder Confidence, Stabilizing Interest Rates and Falling Delinquency: The Week in Housing
- What to Do When a Tenant Just Leaves Your House
- Real Estate by the Numbers: Week of February 12-18
- Look Ahead with Leading Indicators
- Top 5 Green Real Estate Investor Questions Answered
- Important Considerations for Real Estate Contract Assignments
- Real Estate Investing Outside Your Comfort Zone
- In Real Estate, and Life, Cash is King
- Supercharge your Land Contract Returns
- Makin’ Grandma’s Bread – Yeast – And RESULTS
- Price Declines, Higher Rates, and Foreclosure Numbers: The Week in Housing
- The Why & How of Happy Investment Partners
- How To Become A Buy And Hold Real Estate Investor
- You’d Better Pay Attention to the Short Sale Settlement Statement
- Moving Your Tenants Out: A Security Deposit Mistake to Avoid
- Buying Real Estate with Notes: 2 Examples
- Green Real Estate Data
- Finder’s Fee in Real Estate Investing – Is it Legal?
- 14 Real Estate Stats: Pre-Valentine’s Day Edition
- Peter Zalewski of Condo Vultures on the South Florida Real Estate Market
- Tipping the Scales of Performing and Non-Performing Notes
- Real Estate Investing At The Speed of Opportunity…
- Real Estate Investing – Objectivity – And Jumpin’ Out Of Airplanes
- Real Estate Buy And Hold Case Study
- Renter Nation, Perfect Affordability Conditions, Mortgage Activity Jumps: The Week in Housing
- FTC’s Mortgage Assistance Relief Services: MARS Rule & Short Sales
- Do Short Sales and REOs Affect Local Market Property Values?
- A Short Sale Listing Can Be a Walk in the Park
- Real Estate in the Path of Progress
- How Can I Make Sure my Real Estate Contract is Legal?
- Finding Green Grant Money
- Another Day at the Auction – 3 Houses, 3 Tales
- Living Vicariously Through Others’ Positive Cash-flow
- 10 Real Estate Stats From This Week
- Finding the Missing Pieces in Seller-Financed Notes
- Commercial Real Estate Property Search: Where Do You Start?
- Not So Random Observations – Or Just Payin’ Attention
- What Do Short Sales and Used Cars Have in Common?
- Find a Good Real Estate Partner Using The “5-Deal Test”
- The Return Of The Real Estate Buy And Hold Strategy
January 2011
- Rick Sharga: RealtyTrac’s VP Discusses the Foreclosure Crisis & Offers Foreclosure Investing Tips
- Sliding Home Prices, Higher Interest Rates, and Slow Mortgage Activity: The Week in Housing
- Manufactured Home High Wind Inspection Checklist
- Super Bowl Green Real Estate Game Plan
- Affordability: The Key to a Housing Recovery?
- The IRS Has its Eye on “S” Corporations
- Top 10 Housing Appreciation Markets in 2011
- Seller Financed Notes: Finding a Diamond in the Rough
- Why Use A Commercial Real Estate Broker? 9 Tips To Help You Find The Right One.
- Housing Starts – Loan Limits – Prices – Common Sense
- Housing Starts Slide, Existing Home Sale Gain, Interest Rates & More
- Short Sales: Are You the Weakest Link?
- The Good, The Bad & The Astonishing
- Close More Real Estate Deals with a Contract Guarantee
- How to Appear More Professional with Your Lease Option Tenants
- Joint Ventures with Manufactured Home Communities for Profits
- College, Smart Phones and Goal Setting
- Welcome to the High-Risk Pool: Evolving Down-Payment Rules Could Send Borrower Costs Soaring
- Five Keys to Successfully Marketing a Home with Green Features
- Hugh Kelly on the Shaky State of the Real Estate Industry
- Don’t Let a Balloon Payment Burst Your Bubble
- 5 Key Steps In Hiring A Real Estate Agent
- Utah Courts Grant Home Owners ‘Get Outa Jail Free’ Card In Foreclosure Mess
- Controlling (And Conquering) Your Appraisals
- 8 Most Important Commercial Real Estate Investing Questions Answered.
- Short Sales and the Title Report
- Banks Walking Away From Homes, Record Foreclosures and More: The Week in Housing
- 10 Real Estate Investment Destinations
- Working with Homeowner Associations and Other Boards
- Homeowners Repair Grants and Loans
- Are You Investing in Real Estate with Clear Intentions? Do You Have a Plan?
- Five Reasons To Get Tenant Referrals from Your Neighbors
- Not Holding on to a Tenant’s Abandoned Property Could Cost You!
- Shadow Inventory Larger Than Reported
- Rob Hahn: The Notorious One Shakes Up the Real Estate Industry
- If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Lose Money
- Foreclosures And The Massachusetts Ibanez Case
- Justin Schnettler: Using BiggerPockets to Acquire Over $10 Million in Real Estate in Under 2 Years
- The Myth of “No Rehab” Rehabs
- Declining Cities, Vacancy Rates, and Forecasting Home Prices: The Week in Housing
- Short Sale HUD-1 Approval Is Not Just a Formality
- So You’ve Gotten a Short Sale Approval Letter… Now What?
- How Adversity Can Open Opportunities for your Business
- 10 Real Estate Stats from Last Week
- Demand More From Your Properties
- How to Be Ruthless With Your Deadbeat Tenants
- Buying a House at the Courthouse Steps: High Risk – High Reward
- Raising Money for Your Real Estate Investing in 2011
- Get off to a Fast Green Start
- Good Housekeeping: Keeps You From Throwing Profits In The Trash
- Buying Notes at a Discount: Perfect for Real Estate Investors with Cash
- In Short Sales, Time Is of the Essence
- 4 Real Estate Market Fundamentals for 2011
- Real Estate Optimism in the New Year?
- Home Prices, Interest Rates, Delinquent Loans, and Pending Home Sales – The Week in Housing
- Submitting A Short Sale Package
- Overcoming Sales Objections with your Real Estate “Company Policy”
- What are the Differences Between Manufactured, Modular, and Mobiles Homes
- Military Housing: Get The Best Tenants of All for your Rental Property
December 2010
- Green Real Estate Predictions for 2011
- What do Motorcycles and Real Estate Investing Have in Common?
- Your 2011 Goals, and How You Can Guarantee Their Achievement!
- Ten Bottom Fishing Strategies for Savvy Real Estate Investors
- Negotiating Real Estate: Are You Trying to Win Deals?
- If You’d Just Stop Doin’ This One Thing
- Land Contracts: Could They Be The Most Valuable Tools In Your Toolbox?
- Read Your Short Sale Approval Letters
- 2010 Interest Rates, Existing and New Home Sales UP, and a Look Forward
- 2010 Real Estate Insights
- 5 Mobile Homes Pitfalls to Avoid
- 3 Strategies to Protect Your Personal Residence
- The Massive Coming Shadow Inventory and What to Do About It
- Invest in Real Estate Like a Farmer
- Look Who’s on Santa’s Naughty List This Year
- Are You Settin’ Goals For The New Year? Some Food For Thought
- William Bronchick: On Investing Clubs, Pricing, and Timing Your Investments
- Interest Rates Surge, Housing Starts Up, Mortgage Activity and Home Prices Dip
- The Real Value of a Distressed Property
- Will 2011 be a Phenomenal Year for Housing?
- The Big Commercial Real Estate Bet
- Four Ways Builders Sell Against Your Flip
- Wholesaling Property With Land Trusts
- Is the Real Estate Market Poised to Collapse Again?
- The Massive Passive Income Problem
- Are You Lookin’ Through The Wrong End Of The Telescope?
- Short Sale Drama Can Be Better than Nighttime Television
- Barbara Corcoran: Power Broker to Powerful Motivator
- Government Assistance to Investors, Interest Rates Spike, Purchase Activity Up
- How to Spend Your Real Estate Marketing Dollars
- 12 Days Of Short Sales
- You’ve Identified A Potentially Profitable Short Sale. What Now?
- The $9 Trillion Housing Hole
- The Coming Baby-Boomer Mobile Home Wave
- Six Clauses for Every LLC – Part 2
- Guide to Maximizing your Green Rebate Money
- Free Land? I Don’t Buy It
- Never, Ever, Ever Give Up
- Real Estate Priorities, Processes, and Paydays
- How to Overcome that Foreclosure: Do Not Despair If You Screwed Up!
- Loan Modification, Auctions and the Angry American Homeowner
- Short Term Mindset = Would Coulda Shoulda
- Jay Thompson: Using Technology and Common Sense to Sell Real Estate
- When Postponing Foreclosure Sales, Magic Wands Don’t Always Work
- Why I Liked Last Week
- Short Sale Investor: Not All Real Estate Short Sales Are Created Equal
- Pending Home Sales Surge, Mortgage Purchases UP Despite Interest Rate Rise – The Week in Housing
- Finding Your Next Real Estate Deal: How to Prospect & Farm Your Market
- Landlord Home Inspections: How Thorough Should they Be?
- Learn How Five Real Estate Investors Did their First Investing Deals
- Its Happened Before and It Will Happen Again
- The Hard Money Loan Funding Process: A Guide for Rehabbers
- Six Clauses Essential for Every LLC – Part 1
- Google Gives You Another Reason to Satisfy Your Customers
- Perfect Gifts for a Real Estate Investor this Holiday Season
- Home Prices Continue To Decline; Pity Poor Cleveland
- Could Your Property Manager Rob Rent Money From You?
- Mobile Home Park Analysis
November 2010
- Are You Sabotaging Your Own Retirement? Let Us Count The Ways
- I’m Thankful for Short Sales
- Shadow Supply Leaps, Rates Hold, Purchase Activity Highest Since May
- The Basics of Short Sales: A Discussion
- How Not to Lose Thousands of Dollars in Lost Rent as a Landlord
- Holiday Hustle
- MERS… And The Continuing Saga! Will Chain of Ownership be Whitewashed?
- C Corporation: The Active Real Estate Investor’s Preferred Choice of Entity
- Working with Private Money Lenders: Possible Loan Term Options
- 3 Tips for Building New Construction Homes
- Should we be Thankful for the Housing Meltdown?
- Are You Anchored to List Price? What Really is a Good Deal?
- Some End-Of-The-Year Thoughts For Real Estate Investors
- Today’s Art of the Deal
- Builder Confidence Gains, Delinquencies Down, and Rates Jump
- Defibrillating the Short Sale
- An Interview with Bruce Norris, CEO of The Norris Group: Hard Choices About Hard Money Loans
- We Buy Mobile Homes: Alternative Advertising for Mobile Home Investors
- Green Real Estate Checklist for the Holidays
- How to Find the Best Rental Markets
- A Message to New Investors: Don’t Wait for 2011
- Guaranteed Lease Payments for 6 Years! Wait what?
- The Most Valuable Piece of Real Estate in the World
- Be Dumb Like a Fox By Selling For Less
- Make Friends Not Enemies: Don’t Forget Your Image in Negotiations
- Kampyle: An Awesome Feedback & Lead Generation Tool For Your Website
- A Fannie Freddie Referendum
- Foreclosures Slow, Rates Hit New Lows, Building to Jump 40% in 2011
- How My Partner and I Got Paid $800 to Buy a House
- Green Real Estate Rebates, Incentives, and Tax Credits Explained
- California Real Estate’s Inherent and Long Term Value
- Why the Heck Would You Invest in Finished Lots in This Market?
- An Alternative to The Self Directed IRA
- MERS, The Foreclosure Documentation Mess and The Elephant in the Room!
- Six Helpful Tools Your Virtual Assistant Can Use For Your Real Estate Business
- 5 Steps to Create Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Mortgages
- Going OldSchool – Gettin’ Rich Slowly Probably Won’t Crush Your Spirit
- 5 Best Areas to Add HUGE Value on your Flips
- Decade of Lost Ownership, Interest Rates Drifting Up, Pending Home Sales Slide; A Week in Review
- Triple Shot of Confidence
- How Much Money Should you Put Down on a Wholesale or Sub2 Deal?
- Frozen by Paralysis of Analysis?
- Builder Model Home Sale and Leaseback: Terms | Part 3 of 3
- Will The GOP Wave Wash Away The Real Estate Mess?
- What to Watch out For in Self Directed IRA Transactions
- How Picking Rental Markets Based on Climate Can Make You More Money
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Rent To Section 8 Tenants
- Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Need Property Managers
- The Evolution of an REDC Auction Deal
- Finding Truth As It Is – OR – Creating Your Own
- Local Real Estate Club Meetings: 7 Reasons to Attend
- Three Ways To Make Money In Real Estate On Purpose
- Appreciation: The Investor’s Great Unknown
- Mixed Home Prices, New and Existing Home Sales Reinforce Recovery
- Why Investors Get Sued and Screwed
- Real Estate’s PhDs and MBAs
October 2010
- What if My Tenants Damage My Mobile Home?
- Choosing a Property Manager: Nobody Watches Your Money Like You Do
- The Series LLC Experiment – Looking for Guinea Pigs
- The Plight of an Accidental Landlord: Tips & Advice
- Buying Your First Rental? Be Sure To Do The Right Math!
- Builder Model Home Sale and Leaseback: Investor Benefits | Part 2 of 3
- Real Estate Investors: What do you stand for?
- Three Ways to Attract Great Tenants to Your Rental Property
- (3) Reasons you should be a Realtor and Real Estate Investor
- “You Think!”–A Mantra For The Age Of Foreclosure
- Lowering Cap Gains Tax Bills Via Property Transaction Structure
- Housing Starts and Builder Confidence Rise Boosting Housing Sentiment
- Working Your Leads: The Art of the Follow-Up
- Real Estate Tax Bomb
- The Best and Worst Strategies for New Real Estate Investors
- Mobile Home Property Tax Yearly Reassessments
- Multi-Family Green Case Study
- The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: You Sold Me Swamp Land – I Want Out!
- How NOT To Negotiate an REO Property
- Numbers Don’t Lie — Theory Isn’t Strategy
- Top Resources for Commercial Real Estate Investors
- Real Estate Marketing: Consistency is the Secret – Don’t Give Up!
- The Foreclosure Circus: Send In The Clowns
- Foreclosures Derail Housing, Interest Rate Drops, and Strength in Mortgage Applications
- Investing in Gold vs. Real Estate: Which is Better?
- Real Estate Networking: Would You Do Business With You?
- Setting Achievable Goals
- Green Real Estate Investing Trends
- Mortgage Rates Return To 1951: If Only We Could!
- Will Your Real Estate Asset Protection Stand up in a Fight
- Investors: It’s OK to Get “Rich” A Little Bit Slower
- How to Avoid Landlord Mistakes and the Dreaded Eviction Process
- Starwood Brings Aloft to Harlem: First Major Hotel Development Since 1967
- 8 Ways to Find Great Areas to Flip Houses & Quick Sale Real Estate Tips
- How to Hire and Manage a Property Manager for Your Rentals
- 4 Different Types of Commercial Real Estate
- Identity of Interest Transactions When Getting An FHA Loan
- Buying Properties For Cash Can Be BIG Mistake – A Hugely Expensive Mistake
- Builder Model Home Sale and Leaseback: The Opportunity | Part 1 of 3
- Robo-Signers and Robo-Foreclosures
- Housing Market Insight – Week of October 11th
- Are You Getting Ripped off on a Home Inspection?
- The Positives in a Real Estate Decline
- Bank of America Halts the Sale of Foreclosures in All 50 States
- Ten Realizations from my First Year as a Landlord
- A Real Estate Investing Disaster: Learn From these Mistakes
- 2010 Small Business Act: You Have Been Drafted by the IRS
- 5 Strategies To Get Early And On-Time Rent Payments
- Unemployment Breakdown by City
- The New Landlord Checklist
- Interest Rates and The Big Lesson To Learn from Japan
- FHA Case Number Transfers
- Commercial Real Estate Vocabulary 101 – Commercial Deal Analysis
- The Paradox Of Our Current Economy – It’s Heaven On Earth
- Charming the Den of Snakes – Where Have the Honest Financial Products Gone?
- Housing Market Insight – Week of October 4th
- Raising Your Own Real Estate Capital – Sure You Want to do That?
- The #2 reason real estate investors don’t become successful (and what to do about it)
- Real Estate Websites – Do You Need A Separate Website For All Your Real Estate Leads?
- 4 Mobile Home Improvements for Landlords That Are Worth Their Weight In Gold
- The Pareto Principle of Green Investing
- Tenants: Customers or Scum?
- 6 Killer WordPress Plug-ins for your Real Estate Blog (Part 2)
- How to Quickly Come up with an Offer Range for a Real Estate Flip
- What Changes Should You Let Your Tenants Make?
- Attaching a Mobile Home to Land
- What to Do About Negative Cash Flow
September 2010
- Land Trust Traps for the Unwary Investor – Part 2
- The What, Where, When and How of Investing in Southern California’s Volatile Real Estate Markets
- Tackling Retirement One House at a Time
- Long Term – Short Term – Real Life Term
- Commercial Real Estate Vocabulary 101 – Part 2
- Housing Market Insight – Week of September 27th
- Are You Getting Great Cash Flow from your Rental Properties?
- Real Estate Investing Has Changed…Have You?
- Mobile Home Insurance
- Are Your Roofs Cool? An Introduction to Cool Roofs.
- 8 Must Have WordPress Plugins for your Real Estate Blog
- 8 Ways to Find Great Real Estate Deals
- Land Trust Traps for the Unwary Investor
- No Problem Is So Big It Cannot be Run Away From
- Feelin’ Trapped In East Toilet Seat With An Equity Goin’ Nowhere?
- What Constitutes Passive Income?
- Commercial Real Estate Vocabulary 101 – Part 1
- Housing Market Insight – Week of September 20th
- How to Make Money Off Halloween
- Value of a Landlord’s Reputation
- So, You Want To Be A Landord?
- The Secret Formula to Green Real Estate Strategy Consulting
- Storytelling is Powerful for your Real Estate Business
- Real Estate Investing Hustle: An Inspirational Story
- Analyzing a Real Life “Rent & Flip” Deal
- Analyzing Pro Forma Data Years Out
- Three Words to Avoid When Selling Your Side of the Deal
- One More Regulation to Cut Into Our Real Estate Profits
- Knowing Exactly Where You Are Now Is Often THE Difference Maker
- 3 Things You Need to Know to Invest in Commercial Real Estate
- Housing Market Insight – Week of September 13th
- How to Avoid Illegal Referral Fees
- Memories of September 11th
- Mobile Home Myths: Fact or Fiction
- Breaking Through the Clutter: Actions to Avoid Disinformation!
- 3 Ways to Create a Follow Up System for Real Estate Seller Leads
- How Does Your Bank Define “Performing Loan”?
- Over 45? Heading For Retirement Or A Life Sentence? Time Ain’t Your Friend
- 3 Things You Need to Focus on Before Getting Started in Commercial Real Estate
- Housing Market Insight – Week of September 6th
- The Professional vs. the Unprofessional Landlord
- Mobile Home Tenant Screening Guide
- Don’t Forget Political Risk
- The SAFE Act: Most Confusing Legislation of 2010?
- Green logic, Bertrand Russell and a Girl Named Meka
- The 4 Most Important Things to Remember When Evaluating Real Estate Deals
- Real Estate Investing Rules from Richard Branson
- Introduction to Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- How You Should Handle the IRS (and how to get an accountant)
- Can Nevada or Wyoming Protect Your Real Estate Investments in Another State
- How to Close a Subject-To Deal with No Money Down
- 6 Ways to Sell a Home FAST!
August 2010
- Real Estate Syndication: 3 Ways You Can Profit
- Walkin’ the Talk – What I Told My Own Daughter To Do
- Housing Market Summary – Week of August 30th
- 3 Categories & 1 Word Reveal The Truth About The Success of Your Real Estate Business
- Negative Equity Declines: Is It Good News?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: August 29, 2010 Edition
- Investing in Ghost Town Real Estate
- Don’t waste your money on these 7 ‘Green’ items
- Positioning Your Real Estate Investing Business For Profits
- Helping Your Motivated – but Not Desparate – Sellers to See the Light
- Google Places: A Free Way to Promote Your Real Estate Business
- The Coming Crash in the Canadian Housing Market
- Recent Tax Court Ruling Denies IRS Sec.121 Gain Exclusion on Sale of a Personal Residence
- 4 Alternative Methods to Finance Your Apartment Investment
- Housing Market Insight – Week of August 23rd
- Fall of a Property Manager – Part III
- Let’s Look Closely At Residential Income Property VS. Commercial
- Turning Your Real Estate Investment Business Green in 5 Steps
- Mobile Home Investors Needed
- Are You Taking Advantage of the Current Real Estate Market Conditions?
- Booming Military Towns Present an Real Estate Opportunity
- Don’t Get Double Taxed! Never Do This with your Corporation
- How Do Heating Systems Impact Home Values?
- Finding Great Deals Given that NOW is the Right Time to be in Real Estate
- Housing Market Insight – Week of August 16th
- How To Use Flickr to Set Up a Real Estate Virtual Property Tour & Share Photos Online
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: August 14, 2010 Edition
- Why I’m Not Closing this Lease Option Deal
- All About Eco-Friendly Green Paint
- Gettin’ Your Property Sold – One Pro’s Thoughts
- Six Essential Items Every Real Estate Investor Should Keep in the Car
- 5 Ways to Find Eager Mobile Home Sellers
- Fall of a Property Manager – Part II
- Is Your Realtor a GREAT Real Estate Agent?
- A Low Money Down Deal Opportunity
- Setting the Record Straight on Florida LLCs
- Back To The Future – Wicked Cool Retirement – OR – “Sorry, We Can’t Afford To Go…”
- Fall of a Property Manager – Part I
- Housing Market Insight – August 9th Edition
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: August 7, 2010 Edition
- One Creative Method for Getting Paid what Money You’re Owed
- Should You Buy a $30,000 Condo?
- Mobile Home Investing: Beware of Hidden Liens
- A Rehabbers Guide to Selling Property
- 3 Reasons Why You Should be Investing in Commercial Real Estate
- Referrals: An Often Overlooked Way to Get Motivated Seller Leads
- The Basics of “Real Estate Professional” Status for Tax Purposes
- Back to Basics on Buy and Hold
- You Don’t Know… What You Don’t Know!
- Are You Safe to Sell Under the SAFE Act?
- Your 401K/IRA ‘Retirement’ Will Disappoint – Gut It – Pay Taxes/Penalty – Do Better
- 5 Methods to Test First and Make Informed Business Decisions
- 5 Simple Steps for Beginner Real Estate Investors
- Housing Market Insight – August 2nd Edition
- More Government Intervention? No, Thanks!
- Want To Super-Size That Rehab?
July 2010
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: July 31, 2010 Edition
- Results of a Green Housing Study Conducted by Rent.com
- More Success With Real Estate Deals
- Simplify Your Craigslist Searches & Marketing With SearchTempest
- Fannie Mae Outlaws Appraisal Cutting
- How Do We Learn Widely Based Complex Disciplines?
- Housing Market Insight – Week of July 26th
- Do You Really Want Real Estate Advice
- 99 Real Estate Leads and No Real Estate Deals?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: July 25, 2010 Edition
- How to Manage Tenants When Your Property Needs Repairs
- Is California a Model for the Real Estate Recovery?
- Green Questions for Real Estate Investors
- Rapid Mobile Home Closings
- Real Estate Investors Trapped in Alice’s Wonderland…
- Tracking and Testing Your Real Estate Direct Mail Campaigns
- Why Caps Rates Are So Valuable
- Canadian Interest Rates Rise – Now What?
- Using An IRA To Save Your House
- Housing Market Insight – July 19th Edition
- 10 Ways to Mitigate Risk and Control the Outcome in Real Estate Investing
- Real Estate Investors – Are You a Bug In Search of a Windshield?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: July 18, 2010 Edition
- What are the most EFFECTIVE strategies for Real Estate Marketing? Dangerous Question?
- Real Estate’s Last Samurai
- An Effective Craigslist Marketing Strategy
- 10 of the Latest Green Trends
- 5 Things To Do When Your Tenants Can’t Pay
- Real Estate Markets and the New Normal!
- Self-directed IRAs: A Great Way To Retire via Real Estate Investing
- 6 Creative Ways to Profit with Lease Options
- The Alternate Ending – A Good Idea for Movies and Investments
- Fact Is – Most Are Diggin’ For Gold In a Silver Mine
- Interest Rates On Jumbo Loans At 2003 Levels
- How to Put Symbols in Craigslist Titles
- Are You Marketing to Foreign Investors?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: July 11, 2010 Edition
- Housing Market Insight – July 12th Edition
- Real Estate Investing In The Face Of a Double-Dip
- Are You Afraid of the Due on Sale Clause?
- Why & How New Investors Should Focus on Specific Target Markets
- North Carolina Foreclosure Law Would Harm, Not Help Military Families
- The 4 Corners of Value in Green Real Estate
- Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling? (Part 2)
- Maybe It’s Time to Invest in Canadian Real Estate
- Green Mortgages: Three Types
- Your Retirement — 19th Century — Back To The Future
- Housing Market Insight – July 5th Edition
- County Ordinance Hurts Las Vegas Foreclosure Investing
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: July 3, 2010 Edition
- How to Create a Profitable New Direct Mail Sales Letter
- Getting Started in Real Estate: Series Conclusion
- Work Smart without Getting Carpal Tunnel: ShortKeys
- Choosing Your Character as a Real Estate Investor
- Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling?
- Wholesale Tips: You Can Wholesale REOs
- Flood Insurance May be a Concern for Rehabbers and Landlords
- Realtors: Here’s 6 Talking Points for Dealing With For Sale By Owners
June 2010
- Short Term Long Term Deep Pockets and Dinghies On Small Docks
- Introduction to Real Estate Investment Deal Analysis
- Housing Market Summary
- FHA Jumbo Loans: Heating Up
- Are Vacant Showings Better?
- Are You Worried About Having Enough Money to Start Investing?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: June 26, 2010 Edition
- When a Real Estate Deal Goes Bad
- Where is the Real Estate Market Headed?
- Green flooring – Cork
- Keep Your Mobile Home Buying Machine Full
- REO Pet Peeves
- 5 Ways to Overcome Analysis Paralysis
- Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 5 – Income Producing Properties
- Apartment Investing and The (Other) Golden Ratio
- Why Lease Options Rule!!
- Tell Me What Your Retirement Looks Like – Are You Smiling?
- The Most Important Tip About Buying A Home As A Vet
- Are You Under House Arrest?
- The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs
- The Value of Quality Customer Service
- Housing Market Summary – Week Ending June 19th
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: June 20, 2010 Edition
- How to Protect Yourself as an Investor with Insurance
- 3 Non-Conventional Ways to Find Real Estate Deals
- Mobile Home Investing: AKA The Moolah Maker
- Latest Green Buyer Trends for Real Estate Investors
- Using Investor Comps to Analyze Your Wholesale Deals
- Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 4 – Rehabbing as an Exit Strategy!
- Why “Little Cash and No Credit” Should Be A Motivator
- The Deal the Realtor Left to Rot
- Sharp fall in Mortgage Applications Shows Housing not ready to recover
- How Not to Lose Real Estate Deals
- My Annual Rant About Do-It-Yourselfers
- Why You Should Do MORE Internet Marketing
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Non-Internet Real Estate Marketing
- Real Estate Investing & Solar Energy
- Mobile Home Investing: Fast-Turned Profits
- Get Private Money on the Internet
- 10 Steps to Starting a Green Real Estate Investment Business
- Using Google Maps to Save Time
- Getting Started In Real Estate: Part 3 – Wholesaling as an Exit Strategy!
- How to Turn Your Time into Money
- Better, Faster, Cheaper
- The Stephen King Economy and the Real Estate Investor With a Purposeful Plan
- Home Buyer Credit Extension Does Its Job, but what’s next?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: June 5, 2010 Edition
- 4 Essential Tech Tools For Real Estate Professionals.
- Is Homeownership Still the American Dream?
- Why You Should Do Almost ZERO Internet Marketing…
- Mobile Home Investing: The 2 Sides of Bird-dogging
- Greening your Mayor (for fun and profit)
- How to Access MLS Listed Properties Without Having a Real Estate License
- Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 2 – Approaches to Finding Profitable Deals
- To Yellow Letter or Not to Yellow Letter? A Marketing Primer
- SUPER SIZED SUCCESS: Donald Trump Strategies for The Every Day Real Estate Investor
- Why Many Wildly Successful Flippers and Wholesalers Will Face Bleak Retirements
- The Secrets of Dominating Your Area
May 2010
- 120-Day Opportunity for Distressed Asset Investors
- Is Now the Time to Invest in Real Estate?
- Las Vegas High-Rise – Good Deal or High Risk?
- PROOF: Why a Gravatar is good for Real Estate Marketing and Growing Your Business
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 29, 2010 Edition
- How to Get a Free, Smart, Deal Finding Bird Dog
- Pain Vs. Pleasure: Evaluating Risk Tolerance in Real Estate
- Using Transactional Funding in Your Real Estate Wholesaling Business
- 3 Words of Advice for New Real Estate Investors
- Getting Started in Real Estate Investing and the Million Dollar Question!
- Are You Sure Your Independent Contractors Really Are?
- The Impact of Rent Control on Landlords: A Commentary
- Rent to Own: What Comes First, the Tenant or the Property?
- Enough Already! Good Folks Are Gettin’ Hurt Readin’ Your Pap
- Have A Property To Sell? Use A Foursquare Special
- Europe’s Bad News Apparently Good News For U.S. Mortgage Rates!
- Ignore Housing Price Volatility and Focus on Fundamentals
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 22, 2010 Edition
- Right Time to Rehab Real Estate?
- Make this Mistake and You’ll Instantly Lose a Deal
- The Risks and Rewards of Real Estate Investing
- The Michael Corleone Method of Green Real Estate
- How I Made 3k in 3 Days Using OPD (Other People’s Deals)
- A Saw Tooth Housing Recovery?
- Finding Your Accountant. How Can a CPA Help Your Real Estate Business?
- The Critical Path to Faster Success
- Makin’ the Case For OldSchool
- Using Advanced Web Tools To Increase Your Social Media IQ
- Real Test of Real Estate Recovery Starts Now
- Supply-Side Real Estate Economics
- How the Ubiquity Concept Can Make You A Famous Real Estate Professional
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 15, 2010 Edition
- This Article Could Save Your Life!
- Underwriting Changes Could Squeeze Out Military Borrowers
- Answers to the Most Common Questions on Green Real Estate Investing
- Rental Scam Alert!
- Three Traits of Successful Real Estate Wholesalers
- With Marketing, the Success is in the Follow Up!
- Is Your Real Estate Business Under Assault?
- Real Estate Investors: It is time to take action!
- Prop 13 – Fixing the Loopholes
- Frank and Marian – A Case Study – Countin’ Down 22 Years
- Strategic Defaults: No Rush In Making The Decision
- Vacancy Rates Still Hover Around Record Highs; How to Protect Yourself
- Review of Real Estate News of the Week – Sunday, May 9, 2010
- Home Buyer Tax Credit Is Dead – Long Live the Tax Credit!
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 8, 2010 Edition
- The Real Way to Evaluate a Real Estate Deal… If You’re a Rehabber
- Partnering With Sellers To Make Even More Money
- Wall Street “Plunge” Latest AfterShock Of Great Recession Earthquake
- Green can ONLY mean more profits…
- Five Real Estate Wholesaling Tips
- Just Another Reason You Shouldn’t Wait to Start Your Real Estate Business
- Watch Your Own Back – Nobody Else Will
- A Case Study – Kinda – Solution To Underperforming Income Property
- VA Loans: What Is “Reasonable and Customary”?
- Future Shock: Demographic Trends Forecast Future Housing Demand
- Proceed with Caution, but Proceed
- Ethics of Real Estate Strategic Default
- Is it Time to Re-Adjust your Real Estate Investment Strategy?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 1, 2010 Edition
- How Much Real Estate Market Research Do You Do?
- A Proven Way to Get Private Money for your Real Estate Deals
April 2010
- Stories About Whether Housing Tax Incentives Will Be Extended Come To An End!
- 5 Ways to Make Money Investing in Mobile Homes
- ‘Green’ formulas to Boost Appraisal Values
- Lessons from Zig Ziglar
- A Little Motivation Goes a Long Way
- Is The Party Over for Investors Now That The Homebuyers Tax Credit is Expiring?
- The 8 Rules for Flipping in 2010
- The Art of War – How To Win The Real Estate Bidding War, That Is
- Is It Time For You to Get Outa Dodge? From Flip to Keep to See Ya!
- USDA Loans: More Funding On The Way?
- Blue-Chip Real Estate Strategy Fits Economic Climate
- Should the Home Buyer Tax Credit Deadline be Extended?
- Creating a Real Estate Partnership That Works
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: April 24, 2010 Edition
- Why I’m foregoing making $22,000 on this deal…
- Mortgage Industry Reform: Cure Worse Than Disease
- FHA Property Inspection Checklist
- I’m Not Just A Number! The Art of Knowing & Understanding a Seller
- Big Benefit, High-Return Green Real Estate Retrofits
- The Cheapest and Easiest Way to Find Buyers for Your Wholesale Deals
- How to Find Real Estate Mentors and My Eureka Moment!
- Special Commission Looking Into Financial Meltdown Hits Moody’s With Subpoena For Not Cooperating
- In Pursuit of the Elusive Yes
- Wall Street v. Real Estate: Which Is More Trustworthy?
- Some Light in the USDA Tunnel?
- The Gold Standard – Who’s Happy To See You Comin’?
- Fannie Mae Reduces Waiting Period for Pre Foreclosure Events
- Why the Home Buyer Tax Credit Won’t Be Extended
- Partnering On a Real Estate Deal
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: April 17, 2010 Edition
- How to Protect Yourself from Negative Thinking
- Green Real Estate Investing Basics – Video Lesson
- Let’s Talk About Success Baby!
- Mobile Home Investing: Clearing up the Misconceptions
- Building Momentum in Your Real Estate Investing Business
- Future Housing Appreciation: Myth or Reality
- REI Strategies: Know What You Want
- Watchdog Panel Finds Fed Anti-Foreclosure Program A Big Flop
- Location is No Excuse
- Small Property Investing in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
- Interest Rates Climb to 8-Month High
- I Can Do That! No, Sorry, You Probably Can’t – Wannabes and Mentorship
- Cash Flow: Real vs. Realtor
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: April 10, 2010 Edition
- Real Estate Marketing Espionage – Part 2
- How to Handle the Biggest Private Money Objection You’ll Ever Face with 99.9% Success
- We’re Sooooo Sorry Says Two Ex Citigroup Execs; So What?
- Mobile Home Financing: A Primer
- MLS Bargain Hunting: Tips and Tricks (Part 3)- The Pending Hijack
- Real Estate Partnerships: Making Them Work!
- Time Suckers and Energy Vampires
- Multifamily Investing — Is this the Market Bottom?
- The Paper Trail Every Rehabber Should Follow
- 6 Rules for Managing Your Contractors
- Marketing Lessons I Learned From the CIA
- How to Maximize Your Rental Property Appraisal
- Captain Obvious – Old School Fundamentals Matter
- Multigenerational Home Buying Gaining Momemtum
- Investing in “the Ick Factor”
- RE Bar Camp: A Great Way To Learn
- New Investing Mindset in the New Economic Normal
- Starting Out Real Estate Investing: Crossing the Credibility Gap
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: April 3, 2010 Edition
- Real Estate Investing with Functional Obsolescence in Mind
- How Spanish Explorers From 1519 Can Help You in Raising Private Money
- A Lesson in Supply and Demand!
- What do Green Consultants and Brain Surgeons Have in Common?
- MLS Bargain Hunting: Tips and Tricks (Part 2) – Property History
- Commercial Loan Modification – Frequent Objections
- Manslaughter and a Crackhouse: How My Husband Became a Real Estate Investor
March 2010
- Contract Contingencies and 4 Rules for Using Them
- The U.S. Real Estate Market Can Learn From Canada
- HEFI (Home Equity Fractional Interest): A Solution To The Housing Crisis?
- Using the “Old” Media to Market Your Listings
- A Real Estate Investor Without An Exit Plan Is Like a Baseball Team With No Closer
- Standard & Poor’s Economist: Housing Stabilized But Prices to Drop 5-6%
- Should You Hire a Real Estate Consultant?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: March 28, 2010 Edition
- 5 Ways to Fine Tune Your Real Estate Marketing Message!
- Real Estate Investing: Specialize or Die
- How This Note Could Make You Money: Using Your Failures for Success
- The ABC’s to Green up any Investment Property
- The Great Canadian Real Estate Opportunity
- Are Sellers Rejecting All Of Your Offers?
- Double-Dip Used To Be Fun and Exciting…
- MLS Bargain Hunting: Tips and Tricks (Part 1)
- Housing Market Set For Double Dip?
- 7 Tips for Better Negotiation in Real Estate & Everywhere Else
- Hotel Owners in Financial Distress
- FHA 90 Day Flip Rule: Flip Flop
- Understanding How the Stages of Life Should Affect Investment Strategy
- Option Arms – the Big Bang That Didn’t Come (Yet)
- The Shadow Inventory Debate
- Ending Your Real Estate Career
- If you don’t use BCC in your Real Estate Emails, You Might Be a Spammer
- Lessons from Vegas Baby and the 3-Step Investing Formula
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Mar. 20, 2010 Edition
- What Will You do for Success in Real Estate?
- FHA Math: 5% = Disaster
- 7 Lessons from a Profitable Green Wholesaler
- Just Do Something! 5 Baby Steps to Ease New Investor Fears
- FHA Rules Changing Faster Then I Change My Underwear
- Crime Scene Photos: A Surprisingly Effective Marketing Tool
- Federal Mortgage Intervention Ending By End Of Month!
- Calculating Fixed Costs on a Rehab, Flip or Wholesale Real Estate Deal
- Honestly, I’m Not Making This Up: MLS Rants
- USDA Loans: No More Money in 2010?
- Your Retirement – What’s It Look Like and How Ya Gonna Get There?
- When the Fed Stops Buying MBS, How Will Rates Be Affected?
- How To Succeed in Anything in Life – Don’t Do This And You’ll Fail… Every Time!
- A Changing Trend in the Foreclosure Capital?
- Celebrate The Five Year BiggerPockets Blog Anniversary!
- Can SMS Real Estate Marketing Attract more Home Buyers?
- How Long Did It Take You to Get Your First Real Estate Deal?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Mar. 13, 2010 Edition
- What Green and High-Performance Real Estate Have in Common (and why you should care)
- An Unlikely Lead Source: Insurance Agents?
- 5 Ways To Streamline Your Real Estate Investing Business Machine
- Stocks vs. Real Estate: Which is Better?
- Strategy Sessions for Real Estate Investing Success
- When Your Commercial Loan Comes Due
- Higher Foreclosure Sales Expected By 2012
- Determining Maximum Purchase Price (MPP)
- Here’s an Answer to a Major Burning Question When Dealing with Private Investors
- Sex, Lies and the MLS: Why What You See is Not Always What You Get
- The Best Mortgage Program Ever?
- NAR Chief Economist Comments on Housing
- The American People and Hard Times
- Why Never Taking ‘No’ For an Answer Will Make You Wealthy
- Top 3 Real Estate Ads and 3 Powerful Competition Crushing Letters (Part 2)
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Mar. 6, 2010 Edition
- A Tale of Two Real Estate Joint Ventures: Success vs. Failure
- Real Estate Lessons From A Monkey
- Why Smart Investors are Going Green
- How to Sell Your Wholesale Real Estate Deals in 7 Days or Less
- Change is Invetiable… Your Success in Real Estate Is Not!
- What’s ‘Good’ Leverage? Maybe Not What You Thought
- Not Seeing The Foreclosed Forest From The Trees
- Traits of a Great Real Estate Agent
- Jumbo Loans: A General Guide
- Housing Shortage Looms
- A Real Estate Oasis in the Desert Dries Up
- How a Simple Real Estate Video With This Ingredient Can Explode Your Real Estate Business
February 2010
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 27, 2010 Edition
- My Accountant and Retirement Secrets
- Unique Selling Propostion: Which Real Estate Ad Stands Out The Most To You?
- Investing in Real Estate Without Letting Your Emotions Ruin the Deal
- How Would a U.S. Treasury Default Affect You?
- How to Haul in a Bigger Private Money ‘Catch’
- Got Motivation?
- It’s All About The Benjamins, Baby
- A Last Minute Reminder
- Overcome Your Fear to Get Started as a Real Estate Investor
- How Long Before Commercial Real Estate Recovers? Depends
- HUD May Limit SELLER FINANCING!
- Investors: Should You Get Your Real Estate License?
- Monkeying With The Numbers in Ape Country: Tarzana, CA
- Add-On Domain, Intalling WordPress W/Fantastico (YorkPaQuickSale #4)
- Fed Lays Groundwork for Higher Rates with Unexpected Hike
- Why Are There No More Stated Income Loans?
- Worshiping At the Altar of Cap Rates? You Could Be the Next Sacrifice
- Mobile Home Investing: Design on A Dime
- Nevada Gets Federal Foreclosure Aid – Finally!
- Is This Weakness Killing Your Real Estate Deals?
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 20, 2010 Edition
- Being Committed to Being Committed
- IRA Lending Offers Residential Real Estate As Suitable Asset Class
- The Law of Unintended Consequences… OneWest, IndyMac and the FDIC
- Wholesalers: How Bad Do You Want It?
- More Things That Go Bump In The Night: A Look at the Credit Card Act of 2009′s Possible Impacts
- Congressional Oversight Panel on Commercial Real Estate
- Second-hand Smoke Case Against Real Estate Broker Goes Up In Smoke
- Why You Should Keep a Real Estate Investing Journal
- Deadly Disease Outbreak Infects Real Estate Investors!
- What’s in a Contract? Almost Everything You Need to Know About Contractor Contracts
- The Old Normal – A Case Study – No Appreciation Allowed
- Why Too Many Foreclosures Can Lead to Devastation
- FHA Changes Make FHA Loans More Expensive
- Real Estate Economist Sees Opportunity Until 2014
- A Loan Modification Plan That Might Actually Work for Homeowners AND Lenders?
- Do You Have to Lie to Get that First Deal??
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 13, 2010 Edition
- How to Find the Perfect Rent-to-Own Tenant in Today’s Market
- Mobile Home Investing with Creative Strategies
- Contract Law: California Court rules on non-refundable deposits
- A Little Real Estate Humor to Lighten Your Friday: Disaster Edition
- Two Magic Words to Cash in on Foreclosures: Private Money
- The Economic and other Forces Impacting Your Real Estate Business
- 30-Minute Conversations to Real Estate Success
- Wholesaling Real Estate Step by Step
- An Unexpected Paradigm Shift: Is Holding Paper Still a Safe Option?
- One Fifth of Homeowners Underwater
- Pointing Nameservers, Choosing A Host
- Controlling Your Real Estate Deals and Handling Catastrophes
- Foreclosure Alternatives are Gaining Steam
- Fed Leaving Door Open to Extend Mortgage Backed Security Purchases
- Free Video On How To Get On the First Page of Google For Highly Competitive Real Estate Terms
- Those Greedy SOBs!
- How to Handle a Landlord with Multiple Properties for Sale
- Superbowl Commercials 2010 | Why You Should Take Notes
- The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 6, 2010 Edition
- Property Fraud Alert Service – Watch Your Back!
- Where Have All The Houses Gone? Can we Fix the Growing Shadow Inventory Problem?
- How to Fund and Finance Your Real Estate Deals — Without Needing Tranquilizers!
- Three Pitfalls to Avoid When Getting Started as a Wholesaler
- Improve Your Productivity: 4 Great Ways to Clone Yourself While Real Estate Investing
- Walking Away From Your Upside Down Home: The 75% Solution
- Your Signficant Other Hates Real Estate Investing – Now What?
- Recent Important Snippets You May Not Have Seen
- How to Increase Occupancy in Apartment Buildings
- Be a Modern Railroad Baron – Invest in the Path of Progress
- Learn by Doing, Exercise 1 for Real Estate Investors – How to Buy
- REI Lead Generation System- Grabbing A Domain Name (Week 2)
- Last Week’s Ugly Economic News Reveals Bright Spots
- Real Estate Investors Fight HOAs
- FHA Guidelines Scheduled to Change this Spring and Summer
- Grandma Was Right – Especially About the Farmer and His Mare
- Appreciation Rate Isn’t What’s Most Important
January 2010
- Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Sellers
- You don’t have to be a Geeky Web Designer to build a real estate website!
- Marketing for Leads on a $100 Monthly Budget
- An Insiders Tale: Why Banks are Tightening on Real Estate Investments
- Wholesaling Houses: Three Easy Steps to Determining Your Offer Amount
- Simplification Through Complexity: Managing Your Real Estate Portfolio
- The Top Five Signs of More Real Estate Pain to Come
- Outline of a Real Estate Business Plan, the first step to success
- Realtors: Learn How to Market Small Investment Properties To Investors
- So Much For Real, Real Estate Recovery: Enormous Drop In Homes Sales
- FHA 90-Day Flip Rule Suspended: Lenders Hesitant To Change
- Crap, What To Post! How About… “Building A Web Based Real Estate Investor Lead Generation System – Week #1?”
- Housing Permits Up 30% Over April 2009. Will Builders Stifle Recovery?
- How to Tell If You’re Going to Be Successful
- Seven Reasons You Might Suck at Building Relationships
- Rise and Fall of a Real Estate Agent
- Imprudent Use of Leverage: A Contrarian Opinion
- 5 Things Never to Say to Any Seller
- 2010 Real Estate Buzz Word
- Kick Mediocrity To The Curb Today
- Three Easy Ways to Build Your Wholesale Buyers List (Part 2)
- Landlords Beware: Cats Turns Brooklyn Apartment Into Kitty Sex Palace
- Are Lenders Finally Accepting That They Must Unload Their Inventory?
- Using Video To Market High End Properties
- Web Based Bandit Sign Techniques?
- Why Are HUD Homes Becoming Popular Again?
- Avoid Getting Stuck in Real Estate Investing’s Paralysis of Analysis
- Another Way for a New Investor to Build Instant Credibility With Sellers
- Real Estate Thought Leaders at Inman Connect, Comment on Economy
- Answering Questions the Right Way
- A Mixed Bag Transaction – Partial Tax Deferred Exchanges
- HUD Disses Las Vegas in the Housing Stimulus Lottery
- Are You in Sales (psst, the Answer is YES!)?
- How I Bought a Mobile with Land for Only $695.00
- The Most Important Question (that Most of Us Answer Poorly)
- The Associated Press Economic Stress Index Tool
- Four Reasons Wholesaling is a Great Way to Make Money With Real Estate
- Conquering Your Fear When The Phone Rings
- Alternative Financing Options for Commercial Real Estate
- Forced Registration Vs. Free Home Search – Why Not Do Both?
- Here Come The 1099-Cs Turning YOUR Short Sale Into A Big Headache
- Blame California. (But Don’t Be Afraid To Invest Here).
- Will Banks Ever Lend Again, and if so, How To Get Your Deals Funded
- Investigation into Pending Home Sales Reinforces Recovery
- Hook Up Your Distressed Property Video Niche Lead Generation Machine…
- You Can Learn a Lot About Investing in Real Estate by Dusting off Your Old Monopoly Board Game
- A Great Way To Start The Year
- How Remaining Calm Will Help You Close More Real Estate Deals
- A True Story About Why Mobile Homes Are So Forgiving
- Tax Free Income From Your Real Estate Investment Success
- New Year Old News; But Opportunities Exist if You’re Open to Them!
- I’ll Take Manhattan (But Not Staten Island, Too!); Big Apple Real Estate Prices Drop
- They Just Don’t Get It: Is the Mainstream Media Biased Against Real Estate As An Investment?
- How 10 Year Treasuries Will Affect Real Estate Markets, Investors, & the Economy
- One More Way a Real Estate Blog Will Save You Time
- Commercial Loan Modifications: Know Your Options.
- How I Made $50,000 on my First Real Estate Deal Even Though I Did Everything Wrong
- Make Over $150K a Year? Excellent! Here’s a Strategy For You
- If You Can’t Make it in Real Estate Without Money, You Can’t Make it With Money
- How to Research Local Crime Statistics for FREE Before you Purchase that Property
- How to Profit From Your Mistakes of 2009
- 3 Strategic Ways To Keep Your New Year’s Resolution for 2010!
- Turning a Page in the Real Estate Book
- 5 Obviously Simple Reasons to Invest in Mobile Homes in 2010
- New Year’s Resolutions and the Three R’s
- How to Find Real Estate Keywords That Will Help You Rank High In Search Engines
December 2009
- Four Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity in 2010
- 9 Great Ways to Get Over Being Overwhelmed
- Up! Up! And Away! Home Prices Continue To Rise In 20 Cities
- It Was The Best of Times. It Was The Worst of Times. The 2009 Real Estate Year In Review
- How to Pick the Best Contractor for your REO, Foreclosure Rehab, or Other Remodel
- 6 Tips for Investing in Tough Times
- More Pent Up Real Estate Supply? Thank the Accidental Landlords.
- Why Late Fees Are So Important…
- 10 Motivational Quotes to Inspire You for 2010
- Marketing & Making Offers: 5 Ways to Make Persistence Pay in 2010
- National Headlines & Local Realities: Finding Great Real Estate Deals
- Organize your Business with Microsoft Outlook 2007
- 6 Ways to Not Suck in 2010
- Will The Mortgage Foreclosure News Ever Get Better? Maybe. But Not Yet!
- 6 Ways to Build your Buyers List
- Worshipping At the Altar of Cash Flow – II
- Systemetizing Your Facebook Based Lead Generation Effort
- Sure, Walk Away From Your Loan, Why Not?
- Do you always follow the Majority?
- If You Build It, They Will Come. Or Will They?
- These Are The Only Christmas Gifts You Need
- Video Might Not Kill the Blog Star, But It’s Pretty Cool
- When Is Cash Flow NOT the Be All End All?
- Real Estate Marketing is Changing Fast and Furious
- Come New Year, The Ball May Drop, But Mortgage Rates May Rise
- Foreclosures – Looking Through The Eyes Of An Expert
- Wholesaling Houses FAQ
- The Absolute Best Way to Learn Real Estate Investing
- Stop wasting time at your County Recorder’s Office
- How The Long Tail and Hyper Local Content Will Punch a Hole Through the Competition
- Bankers Invited to the Wood Shed by Obama; How to Find Lenders willing to Lend?
- Alternative Financing for Commercial Real Estate
- Will Interest Rates Start to Climb Soon? Time to Get Off the Fence
- 5 Ways to Start with No Money and No Credit?
- Done Trying To Sell Your Home Yourself? Questions To Scare Prospective Listing Agents With In 2010
- Book Review: 2 Years to a Million in Real Estate
- Using Endorsed Letters for More Effective Real Estate Marketing
- Dubai World’s CityCenter Offers Seller Financing on Hi-Rise Condos
- Holiday Season Debate? Should We Stop Marketing or Continue Marketing…
- Bank of America goes to Equator for Short Sales Processing
- Are You Realtors Making This Costly Marketing Mistake?
- Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Put the Noose Around Investors’ Necks with New Lending & Underwriting Policy Changes
- Furnishing Your Home Office on a Shoestring Budget
- Cold truth about the Winterization of REO Investment properties
- Get a Headstart On Your 2010 Real Estate Domination Plan
- REO Wholesaling FAQ
- Can the World Get a Good CRM for Real Estate… Please?
- 2009: The Year Home Prices Stabilized?
- More On Foreclosures: Do Your Homework — Inspect!
- Navigating the Continued Real Estate Market Turbulence
- 6 Tips for Buying Foreclosures Without Losing Your Shirt
- Home Mortgage Cramdown: Part Deux?
- The “Affordable Custom Home” Real Estate Rehabber/Investor Niche?
- How a Simple And Obvious Marketing Concept Will Take Your Real Estate Business To a Whole New Level
- What’s Marketing Got To Do With It?
- The Falling Dollar and Real Estate Investors
- Why I Want You To Stop Marketing Now
- Negotiating 101: You CAN Negotiate Anything!
- Top 5 Ways to Use the Holidays to Get More Real Estate Deals
- Use Adobe Acrobat and Stop Printing Real Estate Contracts
- 4 Key Lessons I Learned From my Rotten Virtual Assistant Experience
- Top 5 Reasons Why the Bank Did Not Accept Your REO Foreclosure Offer!
- Advice for Aspiring Real Estate Investors
- Attention BiggerPockets Community: How Can I Help You?
- Foreclosure Auctions: The Dos and Don’ts
- The Eye of The Storm
- Why Does Every Tenant Have One of These? Buying HDTVs vs. Paying Rent . . .
- Obama to Send Approximately an Additional 34,000 Troops to Afghanistan; Why Not Use Them to Fix Housing Instead?
- Meet Your New Landlord: Uncle Sam (aka Fannie Mae)
- 6 Tips Beginners Must Know Before Investing in Real Estate
- Do You Have a Real Estate USP (Unique Selling Proposition)?
- How To Make Your Real Estate Leads and Google Fall In Love With Your Real Estate Website
November 2009
- Investors: How to show you truly care in 2010; Save a Foreclosure!
- How To Gain Lots of Targeted Traffic, Authority, Exposure and High Search Engine Rankings with 300 words
- 12 Improvements That Didn’t Pay: Learn From These Rehab Mistakes
- Long Island Judge Wipes Out Homeowner Debt. Victory for Consumers? Or Is It?
- 5 Ways Olive Garden Can Enhance Your Real Estate Business
- Why Blogging for Real Estate is Worth the Time
- 10 Questions to Ask Investors Before Adding Them to Your Wholesale Buyers List
- Two Acronyms You Don’t Know
- Have the Credit Markets Dried Up Completely? That Depends Upon Where You Are Looking!
- 5 Ways To Create More Time To Grow Your Real Estate Business
- Inflation Is The Real Estate Investor’s Best Friend.
- This Real Estate Story REALLY Sucks; Now YOU Can Buy The Twilight Vampire’s Home!
- Why All Real Estate Investors Need a Good Mentor
- One Upscale Marketing Idea That Could Launch Your Career in the Luxury Home Market
- Real Estate Depreciation: A Deeper Look
- The Siren’s Song that Led Me Into the Rocks of Rehab Over-Spending
- The Marketing Technique to Use If You’re Broke
- Is Real Estate Investing Your Passion?
- Are You Really A Real Estate Investor? Part II
- What Does Buying a Home “As is” Really Mean??
- Google Street View: Virtual Tours your competitors don’t use
- Foreclosures and Mortgage Delinquencies: A Tale Of Opposites
- Wait! Before You Buy That Real Estate Course or E-book…
- Wholesalers: Three Sure-fire Ways to Alienate Your Real Estate Buyers
- Invest on the Ground Floor
- Home Ownership Below 50%: Is it Possible?
- Lessons From the First Ever Virtual Real Estate Barcamp
- What Realtors Should Put on Their Blog
- Fear, what to do when fear is holding you back
- High End Real Estate: Will The Second Shoe Drop?
- The Hot Real Estate Spots For 2010
- Getting Tenants in Tough Times
- Congress Is Taking a Close Look at Problems with the $8,000 Homebuyer Tax Credit Program
- Rehabbers: Know the Warning Signs of Over-Improvement
- The Early Bird Marketing Secret for Real Estate Investors and Professionals
- Compounding Gains: Optimizing your Money’s Growth
- Are You Really a Real Estate Investor?
- 2 Tools to Embed Real Estate Videos on Your Twitter Stream
- Integrated Marketing – Part II: Maintaining Leads & Drawing New Prospects
- The $8,000 Tax Credit Question: Are We Setting Ourselves Up For An Even Bigger Problem?
- Scout Investor Hotspots with Google Earth and Multiplottr
- Five Tips to Help Pull Yourself Out of a Real Estate Rut
- Use the Power of 100 to Achieve Your Business Goals
- The Importance of Accountability Partners
- How Can Real Estate Investors Profit from the Home Buyers Tax Credit Extension?
- Landlords Beware: Discrimination can cost you Millions!
- The Interest-Only Loan “Extend and Pretend” Strategy
- 5 Reasons Why Real Estate Investors Fail
- A Crucial Lesson About Salesmanship
- The Drake Equation Applied to Real Estate Investing
- Grow Your Real Estate Network; Get Involved Locally
- WHY do YOU Invest in Real Estate?
- Loan Characteristics and Their Effect on Your Prospective Investment Project (Part 2)
- Finding Mortgage Professionals Who ‘Get It’
- 1 + 1 + 1 = 4: The Power of Integrated Marketing, Part I
- Residential Land Development – Part 4: Construction and Marketing
- Wholesaling and Repair Estimates – You Don’t Need to be an Expert!
- Use XFruits to Create Your Personal MLS for FSBOs
- The Health Care Bill and Real Estate Investors / Professionals
- A 7-Day Plan for Aspiring Real Estate Investors
- Has The Housing Bubble Burst Completely?
- Why You Need A Rocking Mission Statement
- Who Does Lead Generation Work For Anyway?
- IRS Eases Restrictions on Commercial Loan Modifications
- U.S. Commercial Real Estate At Death’s Door; Next Shoe Ready To Drop
- How to Acheive Your Personal and Business Goals in Five Minutes a Day
- Real Estate Agents Can Process Short Sales in Seven Easy Steps
- Apartment Vacancy Rate Hits Its Highest Point In Nearly 25 Years
- New Federal Restriction on Prepayment Penalties Won’t Apply to FHA Interest Charge
- Getting “The Rent I Need”
- Real Estate, The Stimulus And…Golf Carts?
- The “Unusual” Way to Boost Your Real Estate Marketing Results
- Loan Characteristics and Their Effect on Your Prospective Investment Project (Part 1)
- Is Fannie Mae Killing the Golden Goose?
- How Helping Other Companies Can Make Your Real Estate Business More Money
October 2009
- Trick or Treat Real Estate Marketing! Would you try this?
- Relationships Matter: Lessons from Across the Date Line
- The Tax Lien Certificate Money Tree
- Using Leverage to Sell More and Take Your Business to the Next Level
- New Home Sales fall 3.6% for September, First Decline Since March
- How to Use Round Robin Auctions to Sell Your Investment Properties Quickly (Part 2)
- Real Estate Fiasco Seems To Foreclose On Critical Thinking
- Real Estate Auctions: Going Once, Going Twice . . . .
- Is The Housing Market Overheating . . . Again?
- One Killer Creative Idea for Marketing Just About Anything to Just About Anyone in Real Estate
- How to come up with your Offer Price on a Real Estate Deal: Do’s and Don’ts
- Persistence is a Virtue. The Story of How I Got My Latest REO Deal.
- The Pros and Cons of Using a Phone Script When Screening Motivated Sellers
- Nevada’s Home Loan Modification Law Ignored
- Residential Land Development – Part 3: Zoning, Design and Financing
- Advantages to Having a Real Estate License When Pursuing Listed Properties
- Learn How to be a Good Real Estate Agent: Gary Shlitz Goes Viral
- Vacancy and Credit Losses: Unlocking a Property’s Potential
- A Quiz You Can’t Fail: How Will You Make Money in Real Estate
- Kennewick, The Stolen Salmon & Why Real Estate Is Booming There
- Deja-Vu… All Over Again! This time in the Commercial Real Estate Market
- How to Use Round Robin Auctions to Sell Your Investment Properties Quickly (Part 1 of 2)
- Bloggers: How to Give Yourself a Raise Today
- Is Active or Passive Investing Right for You?
- Borrowers Should Be Aware of the Effects Foreclosures, Bankruptcies and Shorts Sales Will Have on Their Credit
- New FTC Advertising Guidelines Could Affect Real Estate Professionals!
- 7 Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Real Estate Web Site Without Search Engine Listings – Part 2
- How I’m Closing My Latest Lease Option Deal
- 5 Steps to Calculating the Purchase Price for a Rehab Property
- Mayor Oscar Goodman: Las Vegas’ Biggest Cheerleader
- Investing in Real Estate Overseas: The Really Big Leap
- Are You RICH or Are You POOR?
- The Needle in a Haystack: Shifting Through Income Property Listings
- How to Market Properties without Violating the Fair Housing Act
- Track Your Real Estate Marketing with Google Voice
- 3 Cheap Ways to Market for Motivated Real Estate Sellers
- Foreclosures Jump 5 Percent From Summer; Government Effort To Curtail Foreclosures Sinks Like Lead Duplex
- 8 Tips on Running Your Blog Quickly and Efficiently
- Dolphins And Real Estate
- Residential Land Development – Part 2: Determining Economic Feasibility
- Passive real estate investing tips, become an entrepreneur
- Attorneys for Commercial Loan Modification. What You Need to Know.
- Foreclosure Mitigation Deemed A Flop: Congressional Panel Tells It Like It Is; Administration Plan Fizzles; Foreclosures Rise; More Expected; Don’t Expect Much More Government Help; Forget About The Banks Bailing YOU Out; Don’t Bother Rationalization; Treasury Strategy Derided As Not Long Term Solution; Did I Leave Anything Out???; No, I Didn’t!!
- Do You Know Your Economic ABCs? Or Better, Your UVWs?
- A Good Agent Can Spare Buyers Interested in REO Homes Extra Hassles and Gain a Loyal Client in the Process!
- Real Estate Syndications: A Deeper Look
- Rehabbers, get to know some Real Estate Wholesalers
- Can Cherry Picking Hurt Your Real Estate Business?
- This Marketing Method Has Made Me a Small Fortune
- Déjà vu All Over Again In The Mortgage World
- 7 Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Real Estate Web Site Without Search Engine Listings – Part 1
- Redirected Dollars: Not a Bad Way to Start Investing
- The best time of the year to buy real estate is…
- Right-Brain Marketing: Finding and Comprehending Motivated Sellers
- Residential Land Development – Part 1
- How to Close REO Wholesale Deals (Part 5 of 5): Using a Land Trust
- First Time Home Owner Tax Credit Likely To Stay; But Current Homeowners Still Face Uncertain Future
- Where is the real estate market going?
- Short Sale Relief: Fact or Fiction?
- Can You Have Someone Else Do Your Social Networking for You?
- Maryland and Virginia Real Estate Markets Show Promise
- What is a Real Estate Syndication: The Basics
- Why Exercising Could Make You a Wealthier Investor
- Networking Your Way to Real Estate Success
- Ruining Your Reputation on Twitter: A Step-by-Step Guide
- How Online Classified Ad Syndication Can Help You Sell Your Properties Faster!
- Four-Eyes for Twitter
- Attention Real Estate Investors: “Youth Magnet Cities” Are Pulling You In!!!
- How to Close REO Wholesale Deals (Part 4 of 5): Using an LLC
- Bar Stool Economics
- Developing Real Estate: How to Price Land for Profit
- Top 20 tips for making offers on Freddie Mac/Home Steps REO properties
September 2009
- A Day in the Life of a Mobile Home Park Owner
- The Flood Gates Have To Open Soon…
- 5 Must Haves Before you Quit Your Day Job for Full-Time Real Estate Investing
- Drop that Extra Burden On Your Path to Success
- Why Real Estate Pros Don’t Need Facebook or Any Other Social Media
- How to Increase Traffic to Your Real Estate Website with Backlinks
- Why You Need To Stop Acting Rich…
- Selecting a Realtor in a Small Town
- How is the Washington, DC Real Estate Market?
- If Your Building is 100% Occupied, Your Rents Are Too Low!!!
- How To Make More Money, Even After Closing Your Deals
- 4 Steps to Real Estate Newsletters that Work
- More Bells and Whistles to get it Sold: Using FloorPlanner.com
- The New Real Estate Niche
- How to Close REO Wholesale Deals (Part 3 of 5): The Double Closing
- The Dramatic Increase In Mortgage Fraud: SubPrime Crisis Brings Out The Worst In People; Would The Death Penalty Stop It?
- How to Choose a Commercial Loan Modification Company
- Why Mobile Home Park Rents Can Be Pushed Higher Than Others
- 10 Tips to Start Out in Real Estate Investing
- What’s the difference between you and Sam Zell?
- Mortgage Interest Rates: Where Are They Heading?
- BiggerPockets Hosts The Real Estate Blog Carnival #159
- What Blockbuster Can Teach Us About Real Estate
- How I Choose My Real Estate Partners (and the criteria I use)
- Will Appraisers Stunt the Housing Recovery?
- How’s the Economy? Check Your Underwear
- One Marketing Question That Can Give You Bigger Pockets Every Time!
- Real Estate Marketing Campaigns: Aim Before You Shoot
- How to learn from Junk mail
- How to use Postlets to Improve Your Craigslist Posts
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Will Barnard
- Commercial Real Estate: The Iceberg is Melting Faster!
- How to Close REO Wholesale Deals (Part 2 of 5): Using Quitclaim Deeds
- WannaNetwork To Close its Social Network
- Where to Find Apartment Building Foreclosures
- How to Get Seller Financing for a Mobile Home Park
- How to Generate Private Money, Steps 5 & 6 of 6
- The U.S. Run Housing Market: The Nation’s New Landlord
- How To Make $70,000 Off A Real Estate Wholesale Deal
- Government America vs. “Real” America
- The Perfect Storm Continues for Real Estate and the Economy
- Rehabbers! Know ALL the Costs to Flip that House
- How to Save More Time With Social Networking for Real Estate with Flock
- Las Vegas: Record Sales & Dwindling Supply – So Why Are Prices Still Falling?
- Don’t Pay Taxes on Your Capital Gains (Part 2): 1031 Exchanges
- Real Estate Marketing Strategy: It’s All About the ROI
- How to Embed YouTube Videos in CraigsList
- Our World Has Rolled Over
- How to Close REO Wholesale Deals (Part 1 of 5)
- Strategies for Realtor Success in Today’s Marketplace
- A “New World Order” May NOT Be Good For Real Estate Industry
- Big Institutions Mean (Mostly) Stable Rental Markets
- How to Generate Private Money: Steps 3 & 4 of 6
- Using Census Bureau Data for Real Estate Market Research
- Don’t Pay Taxes on Your Capital Gains: 1031 Exchanges
- Why Appealing to People This Way Will Help You Close More Deals…
- A Tale of Two Real Estate Cities
- Are You Wasting Time With Social Networking for Real Estate?
- Real Estate Marketing Strategy 102: Think Before You Act
- Investment Property Nightmares: How to get rid of that smell!
- Home Prices “Turn Corner;” While Light At End Of Real Estate Tunnel Blinds Us!
- REO Wholesale Deal: Step by Step
- Using Voice Broadcasting through CallFire to Close Real Estate Deals
- Following Up On Leads: the Most Important 15 Minutes You’ll Ever Spend
- The Top Ten Reasons Why Now is a Great Time to Buy an Apartment Building
- How to Generate Private Money: Steps 1 & 2 of 6
- How To Find End Buyers For Your Real Estate Deals On The Internet In REAL TIME!
- How to Organize Your Rental Property Payments To Make Your Life Easier
- High Unemployment & Rising Foreclosure Rates: Yet Homes Sales are Increasing…
August 2009
- Real Estate Blogging Case Study: SEO Benefits of BiggerPockets Blogs
- Increasing the Value of Multi-Families: Vending and Zone Coverage
- My Entrepreneur’s Manifesto
- Can Split Testing Improve Your Real Estate Ad Response Rates?
- Has the Real Estate Supertanker Finally Turned?
- Save Your Sanity, Learn Your Building
- Foreclosure Mediation
- Real Estate Marketing Strategy 101: Think Before You Act Part 1
- How to Generate Quality Real Estate Leads
- Multi-Family Properties: Unconventional Ways to Increase Value
- Property Wholesalers – Know Thy Market!
- First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit needs one of those Modifications
- Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile? Would You Believe, A Real Estate Agent?
- How to Create a Professional and Dynamic Real Estate Website
- Building Value vs. the Bubble Mentality
- How to Protect Yourself for the End of the World
- The Best Real Estate Deal Might be the One You Never Do!
- Social Security And Compound Confusion
- See How Easily You Can Get Motivated Seller Leads Using a Soda Can?
- 4 Steps to Sold: Making AIDA Work for You in Real Estate Marketing
- Lose the pounds not the Deal by Door Knocking
- Starting a Real Estate Club: The Perks and How to Make it Happen
- Network Your Way to Real Estate Success!
- Is It A “U” or “V” Shaped Housing Recovery? Or, Is It Some Other Letter?
- How to Generate Private Money for Real Estate
- Proceed with Caution: Low Prices Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Quality Investment
- What If We Had A Mortgage Mediation Party And Nobody Came?
- Understanding Private Lending – Part 3: How to Find Private Lenders and Get Funded
- Why Deadlines Will Save You Time and Hassles
- How To Get More Leads Without Getting More Traffic To Your Real Estate Website
- 7 Reasons Why Real Estate Investors Should Use Direct Response Marketing
- When Will We Get Real About How To Fix The Foreclosure Problem? Another Record Set!!
- Can you Scratch your Way to Success?
- When You Feel Like Chicken Little: 5 Smart Marketing Moves to Boost Your Business Without Breaking the Bank
- Five Ways to Make Your REO Offers Irresistible to the Bank
- Surfs up! Here comes another foreclosure wave!
- Commercial Loan Modifications for Apartment Building Owners
- How to get tons of great deals, and cherry pick the best ones
- Free Houses and Keeping Your Rental Property Rented?
- What I learned from my trip to Atlantic City
- Landlords: More Details on Transferring Utility Costs
- Pterodactyls, Dodo Birds, & Hard Money Lenders
- Three Easy Ways to Build a Wholesale Buyers List
- Health and Life Insurance: Two Policies – Two Different Needs (slightly off topic of RE)
- More On Developing Your Real Estate Niche
- Let the Buyer Beware! Reducing Risk as a Real Estate Investor
- Executive Summaries for Commercial Real Estate Investors
- Novel Notions To Kick the Real Estate Market Into High Gear
- Which Cities are the Best to Invest in Real Estate?
- How To Use Social Media Marketing: One of The Most Powerful Internet Strategies for Real Estate Ever!
- Understanding Private Lending: Interview with a Private Lender Part 2
- Landlords: This Is One of The Many Benefits of Treating Your Tenants Like Gold…
- Light At The End Of The Tunnel?
- A Simple Test for Entrepreneurial Success
- Your Reputation is at Stake. Will You Trust the Lowest Bidder?
July 2009
- An Investment Alternative To Consider
- Becoming The Investors’ Realtor: The Keys to Agent Success
- Where to Invest in Real Estate?
- New Home Sales Rise: Is This Finally The End Of The Great Recession?
- Is Your Time Worth More Than $15 An Hour?
- How To get Inside Your Potential Real Estate Client’s Mind On The Internet
- Understanding Private Money: An Interview with a Private Lender, Part 1
- What The Yellow Pages Can Tell You About The Economy
- Transferring Utility Costs – Opportunities and Challenges
- Debit Cards Can Be Bad Investments
- Are You Losing Business Because You’re . . . Unreliable?
- Real Estate Investors: How to Find Great Cash Flow Deals
- CIT Group Down The Wire
- They’re Baaaaaaaaack! Subprime Mortgage Lenders Morph Into Alleged Mortgage Modification Cheats
- The Passive Income Deception
- Evaluating This Deal The Wrong Way Could Cost You $16,000…
- A Government Program That Works?
- Commercial Tenants in the Driver’s Seat
- Two Forgotten Words
- 5 Things you must do before purchasing investment real estate
- BiggerPockets Success Story: Two Deals, Three Months, $50k in profits
- How To Get Rid of Crazy Tenants
- The Six Risks of Risk Free Real Estate Investing Techniques
- Collateral Credit Damage
- Michigan: On a Collision Course with Reality
- The Old Credit Scoring Model
- The Great Obama Real Estate Bubble Fix Has Burst
- HUD Raises Limits on Negative Balances for Real Estate Refinance through HARP
- 7 Beginner Real Estate Investing Mistakes to Avoid
- BiggerPockets Solidifies its Position as the Go To Real Estate Social Network
- Five Ways To Get Money Today…
- Municipalities Dealing With Foreclosure Crisis
- We Are So Incredibly Fortunate
- Leveraging Celebrity
- Banks Want Free Field That Could Lead To Another Real Estate Bubble-Burst Cycle
- Is Multifamily Immune from Commercial Real Estate Decline?
June 2009
- The Benefits of Multiple Exit Strategies for Real Estate Investors
- Most People Don’t Take Advantage of Getting Rich Quick…Will You?
- Making Lemonade
- Housing Law – A New Breed Of Cat
- What’s a One-Year Lease Really Worth?
- New Home Sales Vs. Existing Home Sales: Guess Which Is Winning?
- How To Find Your Next Real Estate Client on Google
- Is This the Bottom for Commercial Real Estate Prices?
- Can You Answer These Subject-To Questions?
- Putting it all in Perspective
- Revisiting Your Business Plan
- The Home ATM Went Bust
- “Weeds with Fruit”
- Do You Pay off the Rental Properties You Have or Purchase New Ones?
- Are You a Real Estate Czar?
- Berlin, Boston and the Great Equalizer
- Are We Humble Yet?
- Premature Bank Repayments Mean Less Supervision & Prolonged Real Estate Stress
- Real Estate Gurus, Fake Testimonials, and the Law
- Where to Search for Commercial Real Estate Online
- How To Get More Traffic To Your Real Estate Website Without Marketing
- How to Save Hundreds of Hours of Your Time
- New Numbers Show Hope For Mortgage Brokers
- Jobs Are Key To Real Estate Recovery
- Three Innovative, but Risky Ideas
- The Great American Real Estate/Bank Robbery Continues
- News About The News
- The Four Worst Reasons to Buy an Investment Property
- Commercial Real Estate in a Crystal Ball
- Is your Real Estate Website Committing This Conversion Killer?
- Consumer Confidence Is Up – Why?
May 2009
- Bailout Economy Has Roots In Obscure Law
- The United States of Empty Houses: More On Sale As More Foreclosures Expected
- Here Comes the $8,000 New Home
- Some Old Maxims In Today’s New Real Estate World
- How to Avoid an Eviction
- Are you committing this mistake on your real estate website? Part 2 of 2
- Subscribe to the BiggerPockets Blog, The Real Estate Dispatch on the Amazon Kindle
- Banking Lobby Wants Congress To Kill Off Their Competition
- New BiggerPockets Milestones: 150,000 Forum Posts, 34,000 Members
- On The Road To Recovery – Not…
- Pity The Retail Seller
- The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs Revisited almost 3 Years Later
- Managing the Tenant Screening Process
- This Metal Object Could Make You Rich
- Apartment Building Foreclosures Create a Buyers Market for Apartment Buildings
- Are you committing this mistake on your real estate website? Part 1 of 2
- Congress Not Protecting Mortgage Consumers Any Better
- Escrow: What is it & Where did it come from?
- What Do You Mean Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees?
- Looking at the Orlando Market
- Down Go Home Prices! Economy Still Awaits Jolt From Real Estate Market To Begin Recovery
- There Ain’t No Party Like a Glow Stick Party To Make You Rich
- How To Use Your Social Media Profile To Increase The Search Engine Rankings Of Your Real Estate Website
- An Inflated Appraisal Scheme With A Twist
- Professionalism, from the Magic Kingdom to Your Own
- Announcing TheClozing.com: Doing for Real Estate What TechMeme did for Tech?
- How to Create an Effective Business Social Networking Profile
- Piercing the Veil: Holding Owners Liable for the Acts of the Business
- Social Network Marketing: Can You Have Too Many Profiles?
- Older Americans Month And Scams (Loan Mods, specifically)
- How I Made $3,500 in 22 Days With an Extra $100 Per Month!
- Obama Drops The Ball On Bankruptcy Mortgage Reform; Could Prolong Real Estate Meltdown
- How To Create Your Real Estate Lead Generation Report In The Next 10 Minutes
- Obama’s FHA Commissioner Nominee, David H. Stevens Has Ugly Past
- Builders Lower Prices To Compete With REOs
- TARP, PIPP, TALF, FRB, FDIC, EESA – An Expensive Alphabet
- Notes from the Happiest Blogger on Earth
April 2009
- Scout out the Crime in Your Neighborhood with CrimeMapping.com
- How To Find The Time To Do These 10 Crucial Real Estate Marketing Activities
- Swine Flu & The Housing Crisis: A “Perfect Storm”
- How to Use The Power Of The Internet To Sell Houses on Autopilot
- When A Lender Reneges On A Pre-Approval
- Existing Home Sales Show Recovery Not Here Just Yet
- Squatters Rights: A Frightening Case Study
- Putting a TARP Over Our Economy
- The 10 Question Test Which Will Determine Your Real Estate Success
- A Home Buyer’s “Fair” That Had Much To Reveal–And It Is Not So Good!
- Obama’s Making Home Affordable Plan Update
- Back To Reality, Foreclosure Moratorium Ends
- How To Avoid A Big Real Estate Marketing Mistake To Sell Your Next Property
- Foreclosure Victims Slapped In The Face Again
- Be Proactive with Undemanding Tenants
- The Largest U.S. Property Bankruptcy Filed by General Growth Properties
- Considering a Self Directed IRA? Caveat Emptor
- Cramdown Legislation & Blue Dogs
- How To Solve A Major Lease Option Problem
- Barack Obama: America’s Top Real Estate Broker?
- Heads I Win, Tails you Lose: This Week’s Housing Data and Mortgage Markets
- How You Can Be the First Real Estate Easter Bunny- Interactive Post
- Mortgage and Loan Modification Scammers “Beware” Says Obama Administration
- The Boy Who Cried “Bottom”
- A Note to You Crappy Real Estate Agents Out There
- The Cost – Price – Value Trifecta
- Five Good Ideas, taken at Random
- Why the Country Needs Investors!
- Home Builders Unite: Pulte Homes buys Centex for $1.3B
- Which is the Best Business Structure for Real Estate Investors?
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Buying International Real Estate
- The 3 Types of Real Estate Sellers and How To Deal With Them
- How One Lawmaker Wants To Make It Harder Not Easier For Some To Get A Home
- A Different Take on this Week’s Mortgage Market Data
- How To Find Out Your Buyer’s or Seller’s Biggest Problems Every Time
- Obama’s Economic Adviser, Larry Summers, Too Cozy With Wall Street
- Creating Equity Where There Is None
- Want to Walk with Kings? Be One Yourself
- A Little Bit of Zen: You Own the Business But The Business Is Not You
- Rebuilding Your Home Part 2
- Real Estate Investors: How To Meet With A Seller
March 2009
- Mortgage Rates May Be at Bottom
- Banks Walk Away From Foreclosed Homes; GM CEO Driven Away By “O” Administration
- How To Master Your Time Before The Time Masters You
- Rolling “Craps” in Sin City
- Geithnerism: Institutionalizing “Too Big To Fail” – A Favor To Mega-Banks
- How to Place your Rental Listing for Best Results
- American Ingenuity From A Small Guy
- Stop Paying Useless SEO Companies to Promote Your Website!
- Series LLCs and Real Estate Investing: A Primer – Look Before You Leap, Though!
- How to Find Commercial Real Estate Sellers
- 2 Simple Tools To Help You Plan Your Real Estate Marketing
- Beware “Good” Housing News; May Be A House Of Cards
- Latest Real Estate Market Data Showing a Whisper of a Bottom
- The Top 5 Concerns for Real Estate Investors in 2009
- State Governments Getting Hoodwinked By Home Builder Lobby
- Adding Value To Make The Sale
- Save Time with an Effective ‘For Rent’ Ad
- Apartment Building Investor’s Management Issues
- Real Estate Insurance: Market Value Is Not Replacement Cost
- The Asset Protection Misconception: Why Insurance Alone Isn’t Enough
- How Would You Like $1,200 a Month In Positive Cash Flow?
- Thank God The Banks Are Recovering! And, Real Estate? Don’t Ask…Okay, Ask
- BiggerPockets Events and BiggerPockets Pro are now Live
- Stock Market Moron – Jim Cramer – Calls For The Destruction of Mortgage Brokers
- When Does A Recession Become A Depression?
- Tenants Are People Too! What Renters need to know about Foreclosure.
- February Foreclosures Up 30% from 2008; Does Obama Own the Crisis Yet?
- Placing a Bet on Las Vegas Real Estate
- BiggerPockets is Featured by CBS 4 Evening News in Denver!
- Land Trusts and Asset Protection, a Primer
- Do You Want To Know The Most Powerful Word In Real Estate Investing?
- Who’ll Save Our Real Estate Market? Would You Believe, The Chinese!!!!
- Credit Score below 620? No Loan for You!
- Bring Back Those Cute “WIN” Buttons!
- Unemployment Now A Driver Of Foreclosures
- 30 Thousand Members and Counting! BiggerPockets.com Reaches Social Networking Milestone.
- Turning America into a Blue State; Bad Idea?
- A Small Potato Gets Fried; Bailout Anyone?
- How Do You Spell Mortgage Relief? How About B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T-C-Y
- Wholesale Real Estate Transactions: Avoiding Dealer Classification
- Business Owners Buy Commercial Real Estate
- How did I reduce the risk on my latest lease option deal?
- Mortgage Interest Deduction in Jeopardy
- Another Financial Crisis Looming?
- Obama Removing Mortgage Interest Deduction – Dumbest Idea Of The Week
February 2009
- Hotel Industry Ravaged by Fear Stoked by Government, Pleads to Congress
- Finding Happiness with Contractors
- Economic Forecasting And Astrology
- Obama’s Not-State of the Union Speech; Comes As Home Prices Plunge; Consumer Confidence Falls Off Cliff
- 67% Say $8,000 Tax Credit is Likely to Incent them to Buy a Home
- Real Estate Investing Returns May Trump Stock Dividends
- I Quit
- Learn the Basics of Short Sales (Video)
- The Crisis of Credit Visualized: How We Got Into the Current Housing Mess
- Servicers Incentivized To Modify Loans Under Obama Plan – Is It Enough?
- The Spin Cycle – What Real Estate Statistics To Believe
- Questions & Risk for Lenders In The New Credit Environment
- Need a Housing Bailout? I Admit it, I’m Unsympathetic to Speculators
- True Bank Nationalization Is Coming; Citi and BofA Probably First Up; Nationalization Means Salvation For The Real Estate Market!
- Foreclosure Glut Clogging Courtrooms; Will Obama Make it Better or Worse?
- Foreclosure Anyone? Obama’s $75 Billion Homeowner Bailout: Some Say Success Is Far From Certain
- Turning Distressed Commercial Properties into a New Business
- 3 Words That Can Make You Rich in Real Estate: Follow the Money
- Obama to Detail Housing Bailout Plan on Wednesday
- Good News for Real Estate Investors Looking for Financing
- Major Banks Announce Halt in Foreclosures for One Month; Await Obama Plan Details
- Mortgage Brokers Get The Final Dagger In The Heart
- A Look At What’s Right With America
- Hype Or Opportunity: Cost Segregation
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Responds to BiggerPockets Article About National GO Zone
- Results And Suggestions from the Energy Audit
- The Obama No Plan Lacks Details; Markets Take A Dive; No Firm Plan To Prevent Foreclosures Announced; Real Estate Caused Global Economic Panic Worsens Daily
- Learn to Master The Telephone as a Real Estate Investor!
- Apartment Investing — Finding Value in Cosmetic Repairs
- Should you Pre-Pay your Mortgage?
- BiggerPockets.com Featured in Today’s Denver Post
- Real Estate Down Payment: Gone in 60 Seconds?
- Will The Feds Nationalize Bank of America?
- Leverage: Friend or Foe?
- Saving Money With a Home Energy Audit
- Geither to Announce Bailout Plan Monday – Will Credit Start Flowing Again Soon?
- How Much Time is 13 Seconds? Enough for Another New Foreclosure
- Thinking About Skipping the Home Inspection? Learn from the Real Estate Horror Stories!
- Another Day, Another Real Estate Scammer Busted: $20M Scam Shut Down!
- Banks & Wall Street Robbing Us Blind; Making Fools Of Us All; Little Relief For Real Estate Industry As Yet
- Real Estate Investing Allows Me to Place $800 on Red or Black!
- The Bailout Rap . . . Brilliant!
- Are we Moving Further and Further from those 4.5% Mortgage Rates we’ve Been Hearing About?
- Real Estate List Building Secrets – Capturing emails and building your real estate list on AutoPilot- Part 2
- What If The Real Estate Market Doesn’t Recover?
- Build Yourself out of Depression
January 2009
- Down Payment Assistance Rears It’s Ugly Head Again
- How High Is Up? A Look at Real Numbers Defined by the Real Estate Collapse
- If Your Tenant Can’t Pay the Rent, What Then?
- Housing Prices, Consumer Mood and The Hope Of A Real Estate Turnaround In The Age Of Obama
- No Money for Real Estate Investors? What Are We Doing About it?
- Mortgage Rates, Geithner, China and You
- Buy an Apartment Building — With Warnings
- Real Estate Investors: Time Is Our Most Valuable Asset – Use the Lock Box!
- 5 of The Scariest Wooden Houses You’ve Ever Seen!
- Seller Financing: Pros and Cons
- New Foreclosure Technique for 2009?
- New HUD Secretary, Shaun Donovan, Confirmed
- 22 Types Of Law that May Affect Real Estate Investors
- “I Can’t Pay The Rent” – A Landlords Take on What to Do
- What Will Make Me The Most Money?
- Builders Now Getting Screwed By Banks; Obama Must Deal With Plight Of Home Owners and Builders At Same Time
- Real Estate List Building Secrets – How to capture emails and build your real estate list automatically- Part 1
- Outsized Economic Stimulus Packages can Cause Long Term Harm to Mortgage Rates
- Buy Apartment Buildings — Find Sellers in Public Records
- Governments Around the World Explore ‘Creeping Nationalization’
- What’s the Value of Your Home?
- Getting Back to Basics
- Bedtime for Bonzo: The Bush Era Ends
- Fed Research Sheds Light On Reluctance Of Subprime Lenders To Modify Loans
- Landlords: Don’t Get Axed By Your Tenants
- BiggerPockets Adds Sophisticated Targeting to Real Estate Network
- Creative Real Estate Investing: “They Pay You” Subject-To
- Which Property to Buy?
- A Land Called Oz? Nope-A City Called Villa Park Where Real Estate Is HOT, HOT, HOT
- Investing in Apartments — How Location Effects Market Rents
- How are Mortgage Markets Responding to the Largest Job Loss since 1945?
- BiggerPockets Launches Real Estate Company Index: Free Profiles for Real Estate Companies
- How Far Down Can My Savings Go for a Down Payment?
- The BiggerPockets Real Estate Show (sort of): Episode 4 – Countrywide Rant
- A National GO Zone?
- Shame on Barney Frank – Democrats No Help To Foreclosure Victims Either
- Madoff Scandal Fallout: Do Investors Care?
- My Wish For You In 2009
- Is Private Lending Right For You?
- 10 Economic Indicators You Should Know
- Mortgage/Housing Crisis Hits Latinos: The Press Spins it Again!
- How Speculators (Investors?) Dominate Real Estate Sales, and May be Blamed for Further Crashes
- The Most In-Depth Real Estate Case Study-Part Cinco
- Real Estate / Financial Crisis Turns Deadly; Crisis-Related Suicides Expected To Rise
- Great Job Markets Usually Mean Great Housing Markets,
- Mortgage Markets In Review : January 5, 2008
- More on Good Habits for Success in 2009
- First-Time Homebuyer Credit – Is It Really a Free Lunch?
- Lay offs . . . where? I still can’t find a parking spot!
- The BiggerPockets Real Estate Show (sort of): Episode 3
- IndyMac Bought for $13.9 Billion – A Fishy Deal If You Ask Me!
- BiggerPockets Founder Joshua Dorkin Does Newsday, US News & World Report, more
- A Look At 2009 From The Inside: Real Estate, Credit, and Debt
- Smart Goals and Good Habits Make For a Successful 2009
- 6 Must Reads for New Real Estate Investors
December 2008
- The Most In-Depth Case Study-Part Quatro
- Not So Happy New Year As Financial Crisis & Pain Grow; Home Prices & Consumer Confidence Down Dramatically; Will 2010 Be Better?
- Buy an Apartment Building With a Tool Chest of Knowledge
- The TV News and Negative People are No Bueno!
- For Real Estate Investors, Finding Good Loans Is Tougher Than Finding Good Deals
- How to Find a Real Estate Investing Club – Avoiding the Bad Clubs and Succeeding With the Good Ones
- Are You Glad You Did, Or Do You Wish You Had?
- Questions to Ask a Property Manager: Part 3 of 3
- Mortgage Brokers Getting All Time Low Of Origination Market Share
- 6 Easy Ways to Boost Your Productivity in Real Estate
- And on the 5th Day, He Rested; Happy Holidays
- Happy Holidays from BiggerPockets.com!
- 5 Great Ways to Market Your Property
- Newspaper Ads: Free and Easy Real Estate Prospecting
- Don’t get me wrong! You need to Invest in Real Estate Education!
- New Data: Housing Crisis Gets Worse; Many Modified Mortgages Still Delinquent!
- Fortune Magazine’s 10 Worst Real Estate Markets for 2009.
- Mortgage Rates are at 50 year lows!
- The BiggerPockets Real Estate Show (sort of): Episode 2
- Would I, Could I, in a House?
- The Greatest Ponzi Scheme of All
- President Bush Orders Auto Maker Bailout…As Predicted Here!
- It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
- Real Estate Gurus: Be a Healthy Skeptic, Not a Curmudgeon
- Selecting A Qualified Intermediary for a 1031 Exchange
- “The State of the Economy: Pain Management or Redemptive Suffering?”
- Gas Prices Alter Housing Values
- Buying Your Home Like an Investor (part tres)
- 8 Steps to Starting Out In Real Estate Investing
- Santa Plunges In Real Estate Debacle; Bailout for Claus? No Way Says Congress
- Tales From The Pacific
- In Case You Missed It: Dick and Rich – A Real Estate Success Story
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Rich Weese
- Can Hank Paulson Use TARP Funds To Bail Out Auto-Makers?
- Appraise This: An Examination of Real Estate Appraisals
- Is Now the Time to Buy A Foreclosure?
- In Real Estate, Knowledge is King
- BiggerPockets Hits the 25,000 Member Milestone!
- The Most In-Depth Real Estate Case Study Ever-Numero Dos
- Online Real Estate Marketing: Making it Happen with PPC and SEO!
- Santa Faces Foreclosure; Victim Of Subprime Debacle; Seeks Christmas Government Bailout
- Don’t be hypnotized by the “Guru of the Week”!
- Starting Out in Real Estate Investing: Who Can You Trust?
- Is Dubai’s Genie Back in the Bottle?
- Well, it’s official – it’s a Recession!! What does it mean for Mortgage Rates?
- 8 Essential Reasons Why You Should Join Twitter for Marketing Your Real Estate Business
- The Latest Dynamic Duo Disaster In The Making
- 1031 Exchange into Oil and Gas Royalties
- Bailout Mania! How to Spend Ourselves to Prosperity to Save the Economy (with Fred Thompson)
- Simple Rules for Raising Capital, Part 2 (Now It Gets More Complicated)
- 1 Penny = 1 Billion Dollars
- The First Rule of Real Estate Blogging
- More Interview Questions For A Property Manager (And Some Answers)
- Adjust for Financing when Pricing Properties
- Commercial Retail Space Vs. Apartment Building Rentals — Common Myths
- How To Get Billions–Yes, Billions–To Head Off Foreclosure & Buy That Flat Screen Deluxe Home Entertainment System, Too
- The Most In-Depth Case Study Ever!
- My Investing New Years Resolution starts in December!
- How to Identify Abandoned Houses for Investing
- How To Build Your Real Estate Investing Business Using the Internet
- Rehabbing To Flip
- Rental Property Rehab
November 2008
- Hard Money Buying Worksheet
- Upside/Downside Advice for Investors
- Why You Should Host Your Real Estate Blog on Your Own Domain
- Some Questions To Ask A Property Manager
- Investors, Do You Count Your Many Blessings?
- The $7,800,000,000,000.00 Bailout! That’s $7.8 Trillion So Far, Folks!
- Massive New Bailout For Real Estate—Or Is It Really For Banks?
- The Financial Crisis in Pictures
- Top 5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Apartment Building
- So You Want to Be a Real Estate Investor?
- The Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) Continues to Gain Popularity as an Alternative Investment Vehicle for Savvy Real Estate Investors
- How Technology Can Help Your Real Estate Business
- Steer Clear of Loan Modification or Foreclosure Rescue Practices
- Investors & Landlords: What Kind of Car Should You Drive?
- A Tax Free Retirement
- Simple Rules for Raising Capital
- Community Reinvestment Act NOT Source of Subprime Mess
- Uncertainty vs Risk in Real Estate
- How to Raise Private Money for Real Estate Deals: 3 Basic Steps
- Builders’ Confidence Drops Like An Elevator With A Snapped Cable; “Crisis” May Hand Obama A Golden Opportunity
- How To Overcome Your Fear of The Telephone!
- BiggerPockets Announces New Improved Navigation DASHBOARD
- Keep Your Apartment Building Vacancies Low
- Mortgage Rates, The Economy and You
- Getting Your Start In Rehab Real Estate
- Better Investment Than Real Estate – At Least For Now
- Commercial Real Estate: Opportunities Exist for the Strong Investor
- When The Bill Collector Calls
- A TIPS Tip
- The Importance of Being Nimble
- The Mechanics of an UPREIT: A 1031 – 721 Exchange
- Does Every Dog Have Its Day?
- Real Estate Investors: Should This Be Your Most Important Task of 2009?
- Conflicting Housing Market Data?
- It’s The Mortgages, Stupid! Negative Equity Flu Spreads; Whole Town Falls Ill
- Private Investing in Real Estate Trust Deeds, in Simple English.
- Where to Find an Apartment Building to Buy
- Mortgage Market Snapshot Week of 11/10/2008
- Reverse Mortgage Malarkey – When Equity Equals Inheritance Who’s Looking Out For Who?
- Investing In Real Estate Too Risky Now – Must Hit Bottom First!
- Taxes: Blood From A Stone
- Double the Tenants, Same Rent
- When Your Tenant Wants a Roommate
- Pertinent Tidbits on Burning Mortgages and Hiring Service People
- Ten Rules For A Successful 1031 Exchange
- The Ultimate 3 Step Real estate Investing Marketing System
- Which Housing Stats to Trust?
- Barack Obama and The Housing Crisis — Yours, Not His
- Retaining Your Apartment Building Tenants on the Cheap
- Homeowners Delusional On Values – More Dangerous Than Banking Crisis?
- A New Buzzword: Deleveraging
- Assessing Distressed Debt Opportunities
October 2008
- Landlords: Learn How to Find Average Market Rents for your Area
- What Can Barack Obama Teach You About Real Estate Investing?
- Cold-Weather Landlords – Get Ready For Snow Removal
- Real Estate Guru Pitch Fest Seminars… You Bring it Upon Yourselves.
- Why You Must Adjust for Conditions of Sale in a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)
- Real Estate Investors: Invest In Yourself First
- New Homes Sales UP! Begining Of End For Financial Crisis? Nope. But We Can Dream!
- The Benefits of a 1031 Tenant in Common Exchange
- Commercial Real Estate – Developing an Investment Criteria
- Another Ray Of Hope?
- World Wide Government and Central Bank Tinkering Will Do More Harm Than Good
- Is Utah still in a Real Estate Bubble?
- Foreclosure And Social Policy
- The State of Lending: Trader Uncertainty Anyone?
- Pair Data Analysis, an Investors Best Friend
- Commercial Real Estate To Take A Pounding. Maybe We Can Bail Them Out,Too?
- Being a Real Estate Investor vs. Being a Real Estate Investing Business
- Investing in Main Street Versus Investing in Wall Street
- 7 Steps to Postcard Marketing Riches for Real Estate Investors!
- On Bailouts: History Speaks To Us, One More Time
- Wow! A Great Plan To Rescue Homeowners Facing Foreclosure. REALLY!
- Dead Cat Bounce or Buying Opportunity?
- Bank Takeover Artists Benefit From TARP Loophole
- Current Market Conditions and Rental Cash Flow
- Do You Want to Know How I Can Tell If You’re Going To Be Successful in Real Estate?
- The Top 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Short Sale as a Residence
- Where to Invest Now?
- Is Making 100K in One Day Selling Real Estate Guru Product Bad for Business?
- Landlords: We Have to Police our Own Business!
- The Top 15 Reason to Own an Apartment Building as an Investment Right Now
- We Buy Banks; Markets Rejoice; Where’s The Rescue Plan For Homeowners?
- Foreclosure Investing, Is It Still Alive?
- Interesting Times At The Real Estate Club
- What Is The Real Reason For The $700 Billion Bailout?
- BREAKING: Black Friday? International Leaders to Shut Down Global Markets?
- Keeping Sex Offenders From Your Business and Tenants
- Monkey Business
- BIG Problems Need Simple Solutions; A Bailout Plan that Works
- Who is Left to Invest in Real Estate?
- Does the 4-Hour Workweek Really Exist?
- Real Estate Fundamental Analysis: Four Basic Steps
- A Solution That Works
- Global Economy Melts & Takes Focus Away From Foreclosure Debacle
- Are Municipal Bonds the Next Big Unknown Unknown?
- Real Estate Gurus Promoting Other Guru Courses and Events – a Scam?
- They saw it coming…
- Skating On A Frozen (Credit) Pond
- Losing Your Home to Foreclosure? Shoot Yourself and All Will be Forgiven by Fannie Mae?
- The $700 Billion Banking Bailout Bill Passes – Will It Work?
- By Request, Here are my Tenant Rules!
- Wells Fargo, Wachovia Set to Merge?
- Top 3 Tips for Qualifying Your Renter / Tenant
- Real Estate Blogger? Introducing BiggerPockets Blogs!
- Investing in Mixed Use Commercial Property
- The October Revolution: America’s $700 Billion Bailout Plan Would Make Lenin Proud
- Super-Important Clauses for Your Subject-To Contract
September 2008
- Paulson didn’t see this Meltdown Coming? Huh?
- 700 Billion: Can we handle the truth?
- A Bad Bank: I Laughed All The Way Home
- A Bag Of Money To Buy A Loaf Of Bread?
- Paulson Rescue Plan: What’s In It & What Dissenters Want In It
- Landlords: Here’s a Long, Long List of Tenant Rules
- Housing Bailout Quotes of the Day. What Real People think of the Bailout.
- The Shrinking HELOC
- Are You A One Trick Pony? How to Profit in Today’s Real Estate Environment.
- More Mortgage Fraud? FBI Investigates Bailout Firms: CNN
- Apartment Building Investors Versus Apartment Building Speculators
- Theories on Liquidity
- Government To Steal $15,000 From Every American Household To Bailout Big Banks and Lenders
- The Beauty of a Level Three Real Estate Business
- Paulson Seeks Congressional Authority To Spend $700B
- Dogs & Cats: The Silent Victims of Foreclosure – Introducing Help Foreclosure Pets
- That Fateful Day – November 12, 1999
- Planning Ahead: Greed is Good – Just Be Prepared!
- Introducing Myself: Landlord and Tenant Specialist
- I Robbed a Bank for $8,500 (Kinda)
- Congrats: You Now Own AIG Insurance! Socialized Business Comes To America, Comrades
- BREAKING: Fed Rescues AIG with $85 Billion Loan (bailout) for 80% Ownership Stake
- Newspeak or Bankspeak?
- Who Needs Regulators: Banks Establish $70 Billion Loan Program to Protect Liquidity
- Gambling at the Foreclosure Auction: High Stakes
- Feds Will Not Freeze Foreclosures
- Frustration In An Upside Down Real Estate World
- 2008 Election and the Implications on Housing and the Fannie/Freddie Bailout
- BiggerPockets Groups is a Huge Success!
- Joining This Cult Will Make You Rich!
- Commercial Real Investing Versus Investing in Stocks
- The Sad Saga of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: BAILOUT! Conventional Wisdom Failed
- How to Complete Your First Real Estate Deal in 30 Days
- Promote Your BiggerPockets Real Estate Profile with New Badges!
- The Real Estate Hunt
- Bond Giant Bill Gross Tells Treasury To Get Out Their Checkbook
- 9 Documents Needed For Your Tenant/Buyer
- BREAKING: Announcing BiggerPockets Bulletin – Social Real Estate News Site
- Nonresidential Building Sinks: Fears Banks Will Cut Back Loans For Nonresidential Projects
- Landlords: Keeping the Tenants Happy
- The Good Rental Property And Its Evil Twin
August 2008
- Taking Back the People’s Money with PMS – “People’s Money System”
- “Doom and Gloom” Media Good For Real Estate Investors
- Who is Better for the Real Estate Market: McCain or Obama?
- 9 Crucial Items That Should Be On Your Lease Option Checklist
- New Home Sales Up; New Home Sales Down: A Real Estate Economy In Flux Makes Trends Hard To Define
- Impact of the Imminent Failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the Decline in Availability of Rental Properties on Apartment Building Investors
- Do I Really Need A Home Inspection?
- Warren Buffet Says The “Game Is Over” for Fannie and Freddie
- The United States’ Foreclosure Problem – Solved with PMS!
- The 10 Documents You Must Use When Doing a Lease Option
- Say Again: A JUMP In Home Sales?
- Buy an Apartment Building in 4 Steps
- Greenspan Gives Guidance on Housing Market
- Municipal Building Inspector: Friend or Foe?
- Ramifications of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- Finding the Poison Ivy Real Estate of Your Investment Dreams
- Housing Market: Happy Days Are Here Again?
- Apartment Investing – A Look at Five Year Investment Returns
- Bond Insurers – The Hidden Conspirators of the Mortgage Meltdown
- BiggerPockets Gets An Upgrade!
- Real Estate Investing in a Small Town
- On the Brink of Rebellion: National Priorities and the Housing Crisis
- Finding Money for your Borrowers
- 4,150 Reasons That I Love Lease Options
- How to Buy an Apartment Building
- The Mortgage Crisis: Watch Out For The BIG Wave
- BiggerPockets is Being Upgraded
- New Housing Law Makes Costly Tax Changes For Real Estate Investors
- $4.8 Billion Las Vegas Project Halted
- BiggerPockets is 20,000 Members Strong and Growing!
- Who are Investors Going to Sell Homes to Now?
- How Not to Market Your Real Estate Business or Properties – A Look At Email Marketing Laws
July 2008
- Housing Rescue Bailout and the Future of Lending
- The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Negotiating With A Seller!
- Can YOU Help Fix The Mortgage Mess? Yes you can!
- How to Increase the Value of an Apartment Building Investment
- New Housing Bill Will Not Stabalize Home Prices
- How Three Commercial Mortgage Brokers Saved My Backside!
- Bubble, Bubble, Oil & Trouble
- Commentary: How to Really Handle the Foreclosure Problem
- The Good News of Recession
- Do You Want To Be Cheap Or Do You Want To Be Rich?
- The Neediest Get Hurt The Most In Mortgage Crisis
- Another One Bites the Dust: Wachovia Shuts Mortgage Unit
- Buy an Apartment Building Today?
- Falling, Falling, Falling: Citigroup Head Predicts Two Year Slide
- Hedging The Real Estate Market A Must For Investors
- Investing in Real Estate? Be Sure to Plan Your Exit Strategy!
- An Analysis of the Fed’s Plan to "Curb Shady Mortgage Practices"
- Real Estate Investors – Learn Where to find Portfolio Lenders
- Real Estate Investors: Learn How A Puppy Dog Can Make You Rich!
- A Storm Cloud Named Bernanke: The Real Estate Skies Have Just Darkened
- Apartment Building Cost Segregation Analysis
- FEDS BAIL OUT FANNIE AND FREDDIE; EMERGENCY MEASURES TAKEN
- Are Mortgage Brokers An Endangered Species?
- Where is the Fat Lady? She needs to start singing!
- A Tale of Two Real Estate Gurus
- BREAKING: IndyMac Bank is Shut Down and Taken Over by Feds
- Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: What Will The Feds Do?
- Online Chat Room Helps Save Foreclosure Homeowner
- History Warnings of Today’s Political Decisions – A Look at the Fed’s Protection of Homebuyers
- Why Portfolio Lenders are Important to Investors
- Feds Come Out Of Coma; Say Mortgage Crisis Worse Than They Thought
- Real Estate Marketing Tips: Do 50 Of These a Day and Watch the Money Pour In!
- Real Estate’s Perfect Storm – Are you ready?
- Seeking Real Estate’s Magic Bullet
- HAPPY JULY 4th!
- The Sky is Falling . . . We’re Watching and We’re Not Going to Do Anything About It
- How To Close More Deals Instantly . . . The Power Of “Yes”
- July 4th Foreclosures: Congress Celebrates, Homeowners Vacate
- Secrets To Overcoming The “Moron” Label
June 2008
- Buy an Apartment Building — How to Structure Your Offer
- Sink or Swim – Tips For Getting Started In Real Estate Investing
- Foreclosure Eviction: Tricked as Tenant “Fleas”
- Getting the Most From Your Real Estate Club
- The Underbelly of the Failing Real Estate Economy
- Real Estate: Flip or Rent?
- If you are not getting “yelled at” then you are not doing enough!
- Even At An Auction, You Need to Slow Things Down
- The Senate & The Housing Rescue Plan: Christmas in July?
- Oh, Those Scary Unknowns in Real Estate Investing
- Apartment Building Investment “What Ifs”
- What Grandma Taught Me About Real Estate
- Top Five Ways To Fail As A Commercial Real Estate Investor In The Coming Economic Storm
- BiggerPockets.com Undergoes a Major Facelift Complete with New Property Directory!
- The Tragic Dance of Mortgage Lenders and Borrowers
- The Future Of Foreclosure Actions???
- Financing Foreclosures
- You Gotta Have a Big “Pair” to Use This Type of Direct Mail Letter
- Declining Home Value + Increased Cost Of Gas = Major Headache
- To Over-Do or To Under-Do? – That Is The Real Estate Investment Question
- Is Commercial Real Estate Investing Risky? Yes It Is! But It’s Not What You Think
- You Know That You’re a Real Estate Investor When . . .
- Information and its Relevance: An Inside Look at the Current Housing Mess
- Adapting To A Changing Real Estate Market
- Bullets in the Stucco: An Investor’s Tale
- Should Investors Stay Away from Condos
- Sex and Food Are The Way To A Man’s Heart, But Are They The Way To a Seller’s Heart?
- Home Equity Credit Lines Cut. How You Get Screwed Two Different Ways
- You Don’t Have To Be A Professional Real Estate Investor
- Apartment Buildings Beat Inflation With Rising Rents
- Commercial Real Estate Investing – The Refinance Nightmare
- Through The Looking Glass: A Future Look at the Real Estate Marketplace.
- Do Valuations Continue to Slide for Years? What’s The Answer? – PART 2
- Lender Guideline Changes That Effect All Investors
- Learn To Network The “Right” Way, Or Your Business Card Will End Up In The Trash!
- Real Estate Optimism or Foolishness? A Move Toward “Buyer Education”
- Elementary Investment Suggestions
- Sign of the Times: Buy One Home Get One Free
- Apartment Building Management Tips
- BiggerPockets Featured in The Orlando Sentinel
- Ripples In A Pond
May 2008
- Do Valuations Continue to Slide for Years? What’s The Answer?
- Mortgages That Attract Homebuyers
- Good News, Bad News: Home Prices Fall Off A Cliff; Big AntiTrust Case May Help Home Buyers
- Breaking Down the HUD-1 Settlement Statement
- Financing the Investment Project: Leaving Nothing To Chance
- Cities Working Against Themselves in the Battle Against Foreclosures
- Just Imagine the Mortgage Paid by Lakshmi Mittal on the World’s Most Expensive House
- Foreclosure And Its Effect On Non-Foreclosure Homes
- Is Las Vegas Real Estate Showing Signs Of Life?
- From Pre-Foreclosure to Pre-Trial Hearings
- Why Buy a FourPlex?
- Turning the Real Estate Ship Around: Why It Hasn’t And How It Can
- Utilizing a network of real estate agents to invest in a down market
- Alt-A Loans: The Crisis Yet To Come?
- Apartment Building Loans — Should You Do It Yourself?
- Will We Know When The Market Turns?
- Politics & Real Estate – Strange Bedfellows
- Real Estate Investing? Be Patient!
- The Housing Crisis: How Low Can It Get? Pretty Low!
- Title Insurance: The Basics
- Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village
- Finance Apartment Building Purchase with a Limited Partnership?
- The Part-Time Real Estate Investor
- The Lazy Man’s Way To Real Estate Investing
- The Real Estate Investor Buying Process
- Real Estate Lessons Learned Or Lost?
- BiggerPockets.com Mentioned in U.S.News & World Report: Six Secrets of Internet Home Buying
- Bigger Pockets if you Wholesale to Owner Occupants
- Buy an Apartment Building with No Guru Included
- Creating a Mortgage Fraud Law with Some Bite – A Thought Experiment
- A Walkaway Joe
- Real Estate Foreclosure and a Ground Breaking Court Decision
- Welcome to Blog Contributor, Tom Koizol
- The Longest Real Estate Closing Ever?!?! Finally – Resolution!
April 2008
- Everything Is Getting Better: A Real Estate Fairy Tale
- Real Estate Investment based on how the market IS, not its up-ness or down-ness (aka Timing)
- Apartment Building Location, Location, Location.
- Carnival of Real Estate Investing: It’s Back, 88 Times Over!
- Overcoming the Objections from "Subject to" Sellers
- A Real Estate Investor’s Nightmare: Meet The “Rat House”
- The Power of Networking
- Construction Loans? When And Why To Use Them
- “And, The Debate Goes On”: To Invest Or Not To Invest In An Upside Down Real Estate World
- A Flex-ible Real Estate Investment . . . The Trend Towards Increased Warehousing
- Apartment Buildings Verse Single Family Homes — An Investment Property Comparison
- Finding Your Niche In Real Estate
- Five Additional Steps of Due Diligence When Buying a Rental Property
- Global Economic Picture Darkens; Is it a Good or Bad Time To Invest In Real Estate?
- Is the Time Right to Invest in Real Estate? Chicken Little vs. PollyAnna
- A Realtor’s Road to Baghdad
- Real Estate Investors With a Good Attitude: Smile and Get’er Done!
- Under Analysis…the Latest from the Real Estate Investment Style of Investorino
- Apartment Building Investment and the Time Value of Money
- Three Factors that Limit Real Estate Appreciation
- Brave New (Real Estate) World
- Five reasons to start investing in real estate again
- Why People Who Think Real Estate Mess Will Soon Improve Are Wrong
- Foreign Real Estate Investment: Will It Spread To Your Town?
- Why Do You Think It Is So Hard to Win the Championship Twice?
- So You Want To Be A Real Estate Wholesaler?
- Texas: The Next Real Estate Boom?
- Benefits of Buying a Bank Owned Property (REO)
- Fuels Costs, High Gas Prices and the Real Estate Investor
- U.S. Financial Crisis May Be Moderating Some Experts Say!
- How to Find an Commercial Apartment Building Loan Professional
- Real Estate Investment Vision: Economic Conversion
March 2008
- Introducing the World’s Tallest Building: Mile-High Tower in Saudi Arabia
- If An Economy Crashed In The Woods And No One Cared, Would It Make A Sound?
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Christian Malesic
- Selling a Home???? Make your buyers first 6 months payments!
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina…Build and Buy Real Estate in Panama
- Is America Going Broke?
- Now is the Time to Press . . . Don’t Listen to the Spectators!
- Consumers Worried; Home Prices Down; Trillions in Losses; Any Good News? Well…
- Investment Team – A Real Investment Team
- Choosing a Commercial Realtor
- The Not So "Lucky" Wanna-Be Tycoon
- How to Be a Successful Real Estate Investor. The Story of One Valuable Pre-Foreclosure Lead.
- Why Chain of Title is important to your investment property purchase
- California "Mortgage Fraud Scam" May Be Tip Of The Iceberg, Says State Attorney General Jerry Brown
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor and Landlord, Tom Cmunt
- Fed Rate Cut – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- Real Estate Investment Economics
- Apartment Building Forced Appreciation – Commercial Real Estate Investors: Turbo Boost Your Bottom Line
- FHA Flexibility May Not Be Worth the Time!!!
- Fighting Foreclosure: How One Homeowner Fought the Trustee For Time and Won!
- "Lucky" The Wanna-Be Tycoon
- Are They Serious? Fed Takes Mortgage Debt as Collateral, Bear Stearns Gets Bailout, and President Bush is Confident in the Economy!
- 3 Years and Counting: Celebrating 3 Years of Real Estate Blogging
- Financing a Fourplex Real Estate Investment Property
- Real Estate Crisis Worsens and Takes the Rest of the Economy Down with it!
- The Farce of Foreclosure Rescue (scams)
- The Importance of Real Estate Inspections: Be A Detective when Buying Property
- Apartment Building Investments – Understanding Debt Service Coverage Ratio
- Economy Continues To Take A Beating From Housing Crisis Fallout
- You Found A Great Rehab Deal. Now, How Do You Fund It?
- Landlords: What to do When Your Rental Property is Used as a Meth Lab
- The Transformation of Stated Income Loans
- It’s The Principal, Stupid! Fed Chair Bernanke Wants Lenders To Slash Their Loans
- Understanding the Keys to Commercial Leases
- Real Estate Investment: Knowledge Sharing
- Investing in America, as The American Dream Crumbles.
- Determining the Value of an Apartment Building Investment Using Cap Rates
- Sunday Real Estate Wrap-Up – March 2, 2008
- It’s the economy stupid! Or is it the stupid economy?
- Buying "Subject to" Existing Financing – Subject to Foreclosure
February 2008
- U.S. Senate Plans to Consider "Foreclosure Rescue Scam" Legislation. Its Time to Speak Up, Investors!
- International Real Estate and FSBOs
- What Can Investors Negotiate with Mortgage Loan Officers?
- Viva La’ Revolution! Investing in Green Real Estate
- US Real Estate Crisis Causing Record Economic Distress
- Every Short Sale Opportunity isn’t Worth Chasing – More Time – Bigger Checks
- Information Is To Investors As Yin Is To Yang
- Real Estate Mail Marketing: Pull the Right Strings
- Sunday Real Estate Wrap-Up
- What Happened To The Stigma?
- Why You Don’t Need a Realtor
- 10 Questions on Hard Money Loans
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis Draining Wealth From African-Americans
- First Time Real Estate Investing – The Contract Phase
- A Mothers Nature: A Force to Reckon With When It Comes to Mold and the Home
- Managing Tenants Part Four: The Home Office (a thing of beauty and a joy forevermore)
- The Most Dangerous Game: Rehabbing to Flip
- Bigger Loans, Bigger Buyers!
- Investors, Say Hello to Fannie & Freddie
- Small Target Areas and Huge Profits for Your Real Estate Investing Business in DC, Maryland, Virginia, Dallas or Anywhere
- Evidence Shows Mortgage Crisis Rapidly Spreading To All Areas of US Economy
- Due Diligence and Real Estate
- Tips for Navigating the Short Sale Process
- Haunted Rehab?
- What is Home Staging?
- BiggerPockets Highlighted in Los Angeles Times Article About Real Estate Blogs
- Rehabbing A Rental Property
- Managing Tenants Part Three: Written Criteria for Tenant Selection
- How Does a Dick Become Rich? A Real Estate Success Story
- What Do Home Buyers Want?
- How investors can take advantage of the Feds rate reduction!
- First Time Real Estate Investors’ Excitement and Fear
- A Disgruntled Developer Tries to Get Back Commissions Already Paid to Agents
- The Perils of Being a Realtor
- Mortgage Fiasco Credit Crunch Spreads To Best Borrowers
- Getting Started In Rehab Real Estate
- New York Rental Rates Fall! When Was The Last Time You Saw That Headline?
- Managing Tenants, Part Two: Steering Clear of the Fair Housing Act
- Homeowner Bankruptcy: When Lenders Hope for it
January 2008
- How I can fix the mortgage mess
- Short-Term Fix, Long-Term Worry?
- BREAKING: Subprime Debacle Goes Criminal. FBI Investigates 14 Companies
- How to Score Big! The Truth Behind Credit Reports and Your Credit Score.
- Foreclosures Way Up In 2007. A Time For Professional Advice
- Real Estate Closing Costs and Good Faith Estimates
- Managing Tenants, Part One: 5 Favorite Lease Clauses
- Getting Your Own House in Order
- The Real Estate Storm: Who is it hurting and why is it here?
- Beware of Fraud Peddling Real Estate Scam Artists, Consultants, and So Called Experts
- Real Estate Agents: Are Litigious Clients Out to Get YOU?
- Asian Stock Markets Collapse for Second Day. Interest Rates Slashed
- 5 Reasons Why You Need a Real Estate Attorney
- Why Interest Rate Drops May NOT Be a Good Thing
- Lipstick on a Pig
- The Mortgage Crisis Has a Silver Lining (…and other truths you won’t hear on cable news this week)
- Earning Your Keep: What Makes a Good Real Estate Agent
- Here’s How You Write a Real Estate Ad
- New BP Review: BiggerPockets Goes Wild!
- The Grass is Green Right Here!
- BiggerPockets Becomes a Killer Startup!
- Why Real Estate Social Networking Has Never Been So Important
- Weak Retail Sales As Mortgage Crisis Puts Freeze On Consumers
- Goodbye Pentagon: Introducing the Newest World’s Largest Building
- Some New Publicity for the New BiggerPockets Real Estate Social Network
- Mortgage Crisis Punishes Citigroup; Middle East and Singapore To The Rescue?
- Issues To Consider When Buying/Selling Multi-Unit Residential Income Property
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis Puts Brakes On Consumer Spending
- Investment Theory for an Uncertain Market
- Bank of America Buys The United States – Or Close To It!
- Great Review of the New BiggerPockets
- What Makes a Kitchen Gourmet?
- “Dumb Luck”
- Should Real Estate Rehabbers DIY or Hire a Professional Contractor?
- Landlords: The Importance of Investigating Outstanding Violations
- Bush Discovers Mortgage Crisis: Says He Is Watching
- The Mortgage Crisis and The 08 Presidential Candidates of Change
- The Rehabber’s Eye
- Mortgage Crisis:The Knee Bone’s Connected To The Leg Bone
- It’s Here
- Victim of Foreclosure: Who is to Blame?
- Money Out the Window?
- Do You Recognize the Early Signs of Seller Success?
- 2008-Year of The Implosion?
- BiggerPockets Version 2.0 Preview – See the Tour
- Dreams to Reality
December 2007
- Happy New Year!
- Carpet or Tile? Rehab Decision Making for Nervous Newbies
- On the Fence with Landlording? A Rental with Bite!
- Home Prices Plunge. Steepest Decline Since WWII !
- Selling Points: Setting a Home Apart
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis Helps Bring Down An Airline
- Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from BiggerPockets
- A Home for the Holidays
- A Nightmare Closing Saga: Part II
- Investing in a Green Home
- That’s Too Risky! Overcoming a Poverty-Mindset
- The Federal Reserve Has A Movement
- A Contractor’s Failure to Properly Register was a Crime Under New Jersey Law
- The “Ick” Factor
- Techniques for Covering Closing Costs
- A Nightmare Closing Saga – Part I
- Avoiding Landlord Stereotypes
- Using a Homes For Sale By Owner (FSBO) Company
- The Fed Gets New Glasses: Sees What’s In Front Of It’s Nose
- Home Sick? An Eye Opener on Toxic Homes
- Help Rehab the Mississippi Gulf Coast this Holiday Season
- Foreclosure Options Abound for Distressed Homeowners and Investors
- Sign of the Times: Bankruptcies, Foreclosures, Chaos
- That First Rehab
- BiggerPockets Holiday Advertising Sale
- How To Buy a Home With No Money Down
- Welcome to Our New Blog Contributors: Connie Brzowski & Michael Creel
- Loose Lips Sink Ships (or The Strategy of Silence in REI)
- Playing Dirty in a Buyers’ Market
- Flip Flop
- No Way In Norway – As U.S. Mortgage Crisis Creates Deep Freeze
- The Perils of Going Condo
- New Foreclosure Resources at BiggerPockets! State by State Foreclosure Law Summaries
- Is This a Good Time for Rehabbing?
- Targeting Terrific Tenants
November 2007
- Sad Story of a Family in Foreclosure: Some things You Hate to See
- Foreclosures Matter! How Foreclosures have affected homeowners, investors and the economy
- Marketing Your Home
- You Can’t “Trick the Deal”
- The Dark At The End Of The Tunnel: Subprime Fallout Hits Global Proportions
- Landlord Security Deposit Laws: Use, Refund & Restrictions
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Investor, Landlord and Rehabber Connie Brzowski
- Investor War Stories: A Fishy Abandoned House Tale
- Thanksgiving
- Giving Thanks & Giving Back
- First Time Homebuyer? Heres what you need to know . . .
- How FSBO is Stimulating a Tired Market
- Renters Driven From Foreclosed Homes; While Cars Sales Skid
- Buying at the Foreclosure Auction: Beware of Occupied Homes – A Horror Story that Could be YOU!
- Paralysis by Analysis
- UFO’s And The Great American Mortgage Disaster
- Real Estate Agent = Middle Man
- Important Points to Consider when Obtaining Homeowner’s Insurance
- Reasons People Fear FSBOs
- Housing Crisis Hits California Economy Like Ton Of Bricks
- We’re On The Eve Of Destruction: US Mortgage Crisis Ignites
- A Tale of Two Markets: A Look at the Sin City Real Estate Market
- Examining the Muthler Case: How Real Estate Mistakes Can Really Add Up and How Justice Was Served
- True Equity – In the Real Estate Sense
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis Brings Citigroup CEO Down In Flames
- 10,000 Forum Members and Counting at BiggerPockets.com
- Getting Problem Tenants to Leave Without Trashing Your Rentals
- Some Tips for Getting Attention to Your Real Estate Listings
- Ranks of the Homeless Grows
October 2007
- Breaking: Home Prices in US Down Again – Eight Months in a Row
- Halloween Sign of the Times: Half-Trillion Dollar Beasts and Google Monsters
- The Economic Trickle Down Effect
- Buying New Construction? Don’t let those builders push you around!!
- Refinance pitches: Lessons Not Yet Learned
- Real Estate Headlines: Mortgage and Economic Stories Worth Reading for Friday, October 26
- Investors Working on Foreclosure Deals: Avoid Fraud Suspicion – Disclose!
- CashflowandEquity.com Simplifies Investing in Turn-Key Real Estate
- U.S. Economy Melting Like Oz Witch
- Breaking News: Existing Home Sales Fall by Largest Amount Ever!
- Growth vs. Value Investing
- Real Estate Sellers: Be Aware of Property Disclosure Laws
- The Richest Real Estate Billionaires in America Should Check Out Hinsdale, Illinois
- Real Estate Headlines: Stories Worth Reading for Sunday, October 21
- How the Housing Crisis is Affecting Lenders and the Economy as a Whole
- Treasury Secretary Awakens From Coma: Finally Realizes Housing Bubble Exists
- Sign of the Times: Southern California home sales down 30 pct in September
- 50,000 Posts at the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Forums
- Fortress Manhattan: No Real Estate “Crisis” There
- The Road Not Taken
- A Primer on Escrowed Funds
- Introducing Richard Warren, Rehabber and Landlord
- How Real Estate Attorneys Can Save Investors Money. Beware of Legalized Theft!
- Is Investing in Real Estate in Other States a Good Idea?
- Buyer Beware: You Don’t Have to Use the Mortgage and Title Companies Affiliated with your Real Estate Broker. Make Sure You Shop Around!
- Introducing Joshua Marks, Real Estate Attorney
- When Lenders Mess Up, Everyone Suffers!
- House Flipping Reality TV Shows: Good or Bad for Newbie Investors and Flippers?
- Where to Find Information on Abandoned Homes and Other Properties. Skiptracking and other Techniques.
- Thinking of Refinancing? Consider holding out for Rate Drop
September 2007
- Signs of a Weak US Economy: Gold Screams, Dollar Falls, Euro to the Mainstream?
- Down Sales Market? Think Outside the Box
- Business
- Housing Crisis Quote of the Day from Alan Greenspan
- Real Estate Professionals: Advertise Your Real Estate Service Locally on BiggerPockets.com!
- Signs of a Weak US Economy: Canadian Dollar Equal in Value to US Dollar
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate Investor Jim Watkins
- Fed Takes Huge Step to Stop Bleeding – Announces Major Rate Cut
- How Failures from the Maestro, Alan Greenspan, Lead to the Mortgage Crisis
- Wacky Real Estate News: Housing Bubbles & Prostitutes
- Pre-Foreclosures: You have 3 shots
- San Francisco Fed President – Economic Outlook Risky
- Nation’s Largest Lender to Slash 12,000 Jobs
- Mortgage Crunch Hits Job Market and Stock Market
- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Abandon Lenders and Investors
- BiggerPockets In Development. A Real Estate Widget is Born!
- CBS News Interviews BiggerPockets Founder Joshua Dorkin About Ongoing Housing Crisis
August 2007
- Welcome to Miami’s Condo Bust
- Introducing Jim Watkins, the DFW Mentor
- Be Smart: Don’t Listen to the Media Hype
- BiggerPockets User Demographics Survey
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Real Estate Author & Landlord Michael Rossi
- The State of the US Economy and Housing Market and Tips for Future Real Estate Investments
- 8-15-07 BiggerPockets Crash
- California Dominates National Foreclosure Scene. A Look at the Top 10 Foreclosure Cities.
- Housing Doom has Arrived! Prepare to Protect Yourself instead of being a Victim of the Financial Crisis.
- Whitener & Flynn Properties LLC Payback
July 2007
- Meet the Investor: Interview with Full-Time Investor, Landlord and Realtor – Scott Ficek
- The Whitener & Flynn Hostage Crisis – Day 19 – Who is Gateway Select Properties?
- The Whitener & Flynn Properties Management Saga Continues
- Income Real Estate Investors: Learn How to Analyze a Property before you Get Burned!
- Property Lien Search: How to Find out if there are Liens on a Property
- Massachusetts Senate Proposes Mortgage Fraud Protection
- Whitener & Flynn Properties LLC Management Shutdown – New Discussion Forum for Former Clients
- Marshall Reddick Real Estate Network Sued for Fraudulent Home Sale Investment Enterprise
- A Rental Property Management SNAFU Story – Part II
- Making Offers on REO – Real Estate Owned – Foreclosure Properties
- Property Manager Interviewing Tips and Interview Worksheet
- A Rental Property Management SNAFU Story
June 2007
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Mid-Term Report
- Getting to Know Your Market and Evaluating Properties Within It
- BiggerPockets June Advertising Sale
- Be Careful Having Trust In The Real Estate Business
May 2007
- Analysis: The Real Estate Investment Club Meeting From Hell
- What’s the difference between ROI and CAP Rate?
- Real Estate Investing Store Open For Business
- How to Determine Your Net Worth: Is it High, Low or Average?
- Now Seeking Real Estate Articles
- How to Prevent a Real Estate Deal From Falling Apart Because of Inspection Issues
- Top 5 Mistakes Made By Real Estate Investors During the Housing Bubble
- ReviewMe: agentBOOST Can Save Real Estate Buyer’s & Seller’s Commissions
- Ready to Get Ripped Off? Bid on this Real Estate website
- Stop Being the Scourge of the Neighborhood! Don’t Let Weeds Overwhealm Your Property
- End of An Era: Death of The First Real Estate Wiki
- ReviewMe: Dubai Property from LatticeWerks
- The Most Popular Real Estate Sites by Number of Del.icio.us Bookmarks
- Real Estate Investing For Real Blog Re-Design
- Real Estate Dispatch: Today’s Real Estate News 4-4-07
- New Free Real Estate Forms at BiggerPockets®
- How to Protect Your Identity: Stop Giving Out the Last 4 Numbers of your Social Security Number
April 2007
- One Day of Blog Silence
- Are There Really Other Offers Coming in on this Property?
- Arizona House of Representatives Gets Zillow Off the Hook
- Announcing: BiggerPockets News Update 4-20-07
- What was your biggest fear or concern in starting real estate investing?
- Zillow Banned in Arizona by Regulators. Is the Novelty Wearing Off?
- Looking to Advertise Real Estate Effectively? Stop Being Like Everyone Else. Be Different!
- Introducing Virtual City – More Website Technology to Help Sell Real Estate?
- Meet the Investor: Real Estate Investing Interview with Rehabber Richard Warren
- BiggerPockets Easter Holiday Server Crash 4/7/07
- Weird & Interesting Real Estate Stories: Old, Green, Fixers
- Establishing a Partnership for a Real Estate Deal
- Interesting Real Estate News & Notes April 3, 2007
- Real Estate Investing and Baseball Bringing Hope to New Investors
March 2007
- Can Real Estate Agents Charge a Retainer? Don’t ask the National Association of Realtors!
- Why Pets Are Better Tenants than Children
- Focus on Foreclosures, 3-29-07
- Taking a Day Off in Boulder, Colorado
- Upsurge in Foreclosures Due to Rising Mortgage Payments . . . it took top Fed officials to figure that out!
- Real Estate Dispatch: Today in Real Estate – Focus on Foreclosures, 3-27-07
- Carnival of Real Estate Investing | Investor’s Edition
- Renters: Beware of the Fake Real Estate Agent Scam (video)
- A Few Lessons Learned on Working with Property Managers
- Another Case of Flip this House Syndrome | A Little Help Flipping Houses
- Alternative to Eviction: Rent Increases?
- Meet the Investor: Real Estate Investing Interview with Ryan Waggoner
- Awesome Networking Article on Bigger Pockets! Thanks National Networker!
- Ever Wonder Why People Move to Denver?
- RE Dispatch: Today in Real Estate, 3-16-07
- Meet the Investor: Real Estate Investing Interview with Chris Clement
- Shock and Awe: The Collapse of Housing and Sanity
- Meet the Investor: Real Estate Investing Interview with Eric Medemar
- Meet the Investor: Real Estate Investing Interview with Ryan Webber
- Looking for Real Estate Investors to Interview
- A Few (really crappy) Real Estate Domains You Could have Had
- Housing Bubble Leaving Scattered Carcasses of All Income Levels
- New Look . . . thoughts?
- Sub-Prime Lenders Get Crushed. Is Economy Set to Implode?
- Are You a Full-Time Real Estate Investor? Maybe not.
February 2007
- Real Estate Spam – First Edition
- Automate Your Colorado Home Search
- Conserve Energy, Recycle, Go Green! Congrats to An Inconvenient Truth!
- Vacant Rental Property or Bad Tenants?
- Think You’re In Trouble? Look at the Sacramento Real Estate Market
- Maine Legislature Drafting Bill on Predatory Lending
- Colorado No Longer the Foreclosure Capital of the USA!!
- Real Estate Dispatch – 2/15/07
- The Great BiggerPockets Crash of February 9, 2007
- Return on Investment (ROI) Versus Cash on Cash Return (CCR)
January 2007
- BiggerPockets is Packing Up and Moving!
- Real Estate Agent Steals $3 million and Keeps Her Real Estate License
- Carnival of Real Estate Investing: Volume 8
- 20,000 Plus Reasons for Congratulations to BiggerPockets
- Protecting Yourself During Winter Storm Season
- What is a Structured Sale? – PART 2
- What is a Structured Sale? – PART 1
- Finale of the 2007 Real Estate Goals Group Writing Project
- Now We Can’t Even Trust Our Real Estate Lawyers?
- The Emergence of the Selfless Real Estate Agent
- Looking for Some Deals? Scoop Up Over 350 Foreclosed Homes at Auction, Starting at Only $5000
- News Shocker! Economist Actually Gets It. Why Existing Homes Fell in ’06
- More Honors Bestowed Upon Us During Blogging Award Season
- Episode 3 of Flipper Nation: The Flippin’ Fight
- Advantages of Buying REO Properties – Real Estate Owned Properties -
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Group Writing Project Finale! Guest Goals Post Teresa Boardman
- Horray for Smart Online Real Estate Marketing: Vote for BiggerPockets!
- Real Estate Dispatch – 1/3/07
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: 2007 Submissions
December 2006
- Farewell 2006! Thanks to the Audience of BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Investing Guide!
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: 12/31 Submissions
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: 12/30 Submissions
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: 12/29 Submissions
- The 14 Coolest Real Estate Stories of 2006
- 2007 Real Estate Goals: Group Writing Project Extended Until January 5!
- Is There Really A Down Time Of The Year for Real Estate?
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: Complete List of Submissions
- 2007 Real Estate Goals Group Writing Project Update
- Real Estate Dispatch – Christmas Eve Edition – 12/24/06
- What Are Your Real Estate Goals for 2007? – Group Writing Project
- Here’s to Everyone Looking for BiggerPockets This Holiday Season!
- SubPrime Loans and Foreclosures: Looks Like There is a Connection!
- Real Estate Dispatch – 12/19/06
- Congratulations, Wall Street (and NY real estate brokers)!
- Keeping Your Tenants Happy During the Holidays
- Why Are We in a Real Estate Freeze?
- Good Landlords vs. Bad Tenants? Let the Lawsuits Begin!
- Don’t Just Buy a Home, Buy an Island!
- Where In The World? Unusual Architecture
- Carnival of Real Estate Investing #4 Advice for Agents and Investors
- Real Estate Dispatch – 12/10/06
- Birth of a National MLS? Meet Zillow . . .
- Lenders Taking Steps to Improve Image Problems
- Episode 2 of Flipper Nation Debuts
- We’re Hosting This Week’s Carnival of Real Estate Investing
- Refinance Before Making Late Mortgage Payments
- What is Hard Money and How Does it Work?
- Living Among Celebrities in New York
- Real Estate Dispatch – 12/1/06
November 2006
- Growth of the Real Estate Wiki
- Feng Shui Maniac
- Real Estate Dispatch – November 28, 2006
- BiggerPockets SPAM-Bombed About “Free” Seminar from Consumer Advocate Website
- Real Estate Blog Carnival #20 Real Estate Lessons
- Launch of the First True Real Estate Wiki
- Wholesaling Real Estate Basics
- A Review of GovHomeUSA
- A Glut in New Constructions in New York?
- Landlording Tip: Screen Your Tenants
- Going Carnival Crazy!
- Interesting Web Marketing Technique – OverHype
- Real Estate Bubble Popping, Housing Starts and Building Permits Tumble
- Real Estate Partnership Questions
- New Twist on the Dilemma of City vs. Suburbs
- Real Estate News Bubble Briefs
- Top 10 Real Estate Lies of 2006
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk Breaks Sales Record
- BiggerPockets Helps Homeowner Supposedly in Foreclosure
- New Contributor to Real Estate Investing for Real
- Greetings from New York!
- Why You Should or Shouldn’t Put Coin-Op Laundry Machines in Your Rental Property
- Real Estate Speedlinking
- Get Out And Vote
- Finding Home Improvement Coupons at DealCatcher
- Real Estate Investing Videos: Investing Basics
- Breaking Down Real Estate AdSpeak – Funny Definitions for Real Estate Jargon
- Politics, Housing Markets, and Foreclosure Rescue
- Back from Thailand and Hong Kong Honeymoon
- Housing Slump Brings U.S. Economy Down;Manufacturing Stalls
October 2006
- Foreclosure Auctions Return To Colorado
- What Falling Prices? Asks San Fran Real Estate Pros, Says Report
- Snowstorm of Foreclosures Blanket Colorado County-Highest In Nation
- Housing Slumps; U.S. Economy Catches Cold
- Biggest Drop In New Home Prices In More Than 30 Years
- California “Dream” Goes Bad For Thousounds Of Homeowners
- Could It Be:Real Estate Bargains?
- When It Comes To Foreclosures, Keep It Local!
- U.S. Housing Boom: The World Wants To Know, What Next?
- Hello from Chiang Mai, Thailand
- An Unexpected Rise In Housing Starts;Some Say Slump May Be Near Bottom
- Boomers Have BiggerPockets For Real Estate-New Study Says
- Risky Business-How Much For Lenders, How Much For Homeowners?
- Largest Housing Plan For Middle-Income New Yorkers In Three Decades
- “I Left My Home In San Francisco”;Bay Area Foreclosures Increase
- 2007-A Year Of Declining CA Housing Prices?
- Good News For Washington ,D.C. As Foreclosures Drop
- Biggest Real Estate Deal Ever-We’re Talking Billions!
- Record Real Estate Deal–We’re Talking BILLIONS!
- Off to Thailand
- BiggerPockets Helps “Victims” of Real Estate Scandals
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Charges Pinnacle Development Partners, LLC With Fraud
- Foreclosures Jump in September
- Find Comparable Rents With Rentometer
- Getting Married!
- The House of the Future – A Tech Lovers Dream
- Monster List of Real Estate Blogs
- Foreclosures, Census Data, and Tough Times for Real Estate Agents
- Pending Housing Sales Index Up In August
- Are Lawns on the Way Out?
September 2006
- Really Creative Financing For That Vacation Home You Always Wanted
- Beware of Fake Credit Report Sites
- Stock & Housing Market Update
- Beware of Real Estate Scammers Rushing You to Sign
- The 10 Least and Most Affordable US Housing Markets
- 1,000,000 Page Views This Month
- Under the Investing Carnival Big Top
- Median Home Prices Fall First Time in 11 Years
- Real Estate Vocabulary: Adverse Posession
- More Blogging Carnivals for Real Estate Investing for Real
- Time for the Carnival of Real Estate
- BREAKING NEWS: Pinnacle Development Partners LLC Under Investigation
- Zillow Takes Step Towards Democratizing Home Prices
- Housing Starts to Fall to 3 Year Lows
- BiggerPockets.com Turns 3,000!
- Sunday Real Estate Speedlinking
- Successful Real Estate Blogging Follow Up: St.Paul Real Estate Blog
- Using Blogs to Build Your Real Estate Related Business
- Mid-September National Foreclosure Update
- Senate Hearing: The Housing Bubble and its Implications for the Economy
- New York Times Blog “The Walk Through” Shuts Down
- The Top Housing Bubble Blogs
- BiggerPockets Exclusive: Sneak Preview of Real Estate Website Realivent
- Problem Free Housing Rental & For Sale Posting to Online Classified Sites
- Another Edition of Real Estate Speedlinking: Friday News Briefs
- How to Make Money With Rural Properties: An Interview with Allen Shannon
- Real Estate Vocabulary: Economic Obsolescence
- US Metros With Highest & Lowest Rates of Price Appreciation
- U.S. Home Prices in Sharpest Decline on Record
- One More Time . . . the Real Estate Carnival
- Are Californians Getting Poorer?
- Toxic Mortgages, The Map of Misery, and Option ARM Hell
- Seattle Rain City Guide Real Estate Blog HACKED!
- Web 2.0 + Rental Property Management = RentYield.com
- Why You Should Always Inspect Foreclosures Before Auction
- Introducing the 0.25% Mortgage Loan
- How to Find Foreclosure and Pre-Foreclosure Listings
August 2006
- More Real Estate Speedlinking
- Irrational Exuberance, the Real Estate Bubble and the Weakening of the US Economy
- Real Estate Speedlinking
- Tips on Timeshares
- Understanding The Foreclosure Process
- House Values Looks to Motivate Real Estate Professionals
- Real Estate Investor Optimism Sinking
- Another Carnival of Real Estate
- Sunday Real Estate Wrap Up
- How to Find Money for a Down Payment
- Will Sell Crack for Food
- Can Internet Behavior Predict the Real Estate Market?
- Disappointment with Prosper.com
- 4 Ideas for Selling Real Estate in a Slowing Market
- Top 35 Real Estate Blogs
- Will the Soft Housing Market Cause Online Real Estate Sites to Crash & Burn
- Where is The US Housing Market Going?
- An Innovative Solution for Unaffordable Housing
- Congress Investigating High Foreclosure Rates in Ohio
- What Are Real Estate Deals and What Aren’t Deals
- Easy Pickings for Foreclosures
- BusinessWeek’s 10 Healthiest Housing Markets
- Investing in College Real Estate
- BiggerPockets Integrates Real Estate Valuation Tool from Zillow.com
- The Importance of Keeping a Routine
- After Several Failures, A Successful Website Launch
- $2 Million in Development Funds Up For Grabs in Upstate New York
- 10 Easy Ways to an Environmentally Friendly Home
- Top 10 Places to Live
- Attracting Tenants with Incentives or Gifts
- Carnival of Real Estate
- Cool Tool for Finding Market Rents – RentSlicer
- What Are Condo Hotels or Condotels? An Interview with Joel Greene – Part 2
- 10 Ways to Make Money in Real Estate
- What Are Condo Hotels or Condotels? A Primer
- Finding Mortgage Limits on FHA Loans
- How To Lose Money And Get Your Rental Property Trashed By Your Tenants
- Housing Scandal – An Empire Created, An Empire Destroyed
- Light Things Up With Solar-Powered Sun Bricks
- Its Press Time Again For BiggerPockets
- Cash Required at Foreclosure Auctions
July 2006
- Pro-Home Saving Homeowners from Foreclosure
- How to Post Your Property for Rent on Craigslist
- The Coolest Architectural Projects in the Middle East
- The End of The National Association of Realtors’ MLS Monopoly?
- Free Websites for Real Estate Agents
- Interesting Real Estate Tidbits
- 7 Creative Ways to Market Your Property in a Cold Housing Market
- Looking for a Logo
- Beware of Real Estate Ripoffs
- Top 10 Real Estate Investing Questions
- We’re looking for bloggers!
- Think You Have What it Takes to Rehab Houses?
- Yahoo Launches Home Valuation Tool – Zillow look out?!?
- Most Expensive House in America: For Sale!
- Finding real estate bargains with government foreclosed properties
- What to do when you can’t sell a property?
May 2006
- Real Estate Investing Podcasts
- Happy Mother’s Day
- The End For The Ultimate Apprentice
- Buffett Calls for Real Estate Slowdown
- You Think Your Apartment is Small?
- Louis Rukeyser, host of Wall Street Week, Dies
- Cost of Remodeling a Bathroom
April 2006
- Hot Demographic News – Hispanics to Buy 3 Million Homes
- Top 7 Coolest Real Estate Web 2.0 Sites
- What Exactly Does it Mean to Own Real Property?
- Australia looking to take over the US Real Estate Market
March 2006
- How to Successfully Market to Homes in Pre-Foreclosure
- Advice for a real estate flipping newbie
- The Battle for the World’s Skies
- Who has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation?
- Sweet Site of the Day
- Assembling your Real Estate Investing Team
- Learn from the Maine Solar House
- A Bit More About Flip this House’s Trademark Properties
- Rule #1 of Real Estate Investing – Caveat Emptor
- Indoor Beaches and Man-made Islands
- No Go at the Real Estate Expo
- Finding, Borrowing and Loaning Money with Prosper.com
- Meet the recycled house
- An investor’s experience at foreclosure auction
February 2006
- Foreclosures up 45% in January
- Property Management Survey
- Real Estate Scams to Look out For
- New Home Construction at Fastest Pace in Decades
- Tax Incentives for Energy Efficiency
- Single Women are Done with Renting
- How much real estate can you get for $1
- CashFlow Clubs at BiggerPockets
- Advertising on BiggerPockets.com
- Up and Running Strong!
January 2006
December 2005
- Section 8 Success Story
- How to determine if a commmunity is worth investing in
- Taking Time off to Play Games
- National Real Estate MLS Directory
- Slow times at the Real Estate Blog
November 2005
October 2005
- New York Trump Real Estate Expo – PART 1
- This Weekend: Reporting from Trump Real Estate Expo
- Two Easy Strategies to Help You Become a Millionaire
- Street, Satellite, Topo and Hazard Maps
- Cool Tool for People Planning a Move
- Things to Consider when Interviewing Property Management Companies
- Hot housing markets starting to slow down
- Banks Will Suffer in Housing Decline
- A new way to find properties at Trulia
September 2005
- Real Estate Speculators Invade the Gulf Coast after Katrina
- Calculating your way to Wealth
- Gauging the Real Estate Market using GDP as an Indicator
- Free Credit Reports Now Available in All 50 States
- Finding Properties Under Fair Market Price
- Existing Home Sales Hit 2nd Highest Level Ever
- Yes, Housing Prices Can and DO Decline
- Real Estate Booming Outside Katrina’s Wrath
- Katrina and the Impact on the Real Estate Market
- Housing Market Starting to Turn in Hottest Cities
- Launch of a New Property Analysis Tool!
- Spotlight on Bakersfield, CA – HOT MARKET ALERT
- Housing showing signs of cooling
- Factors Driving housing Prices
- Should Real Estate Investors get their Real Estate License
- Real Estate Boom as indicated by Books and Amazon.com
August 2005
- The biggest mistake in real estate investing
- Lamest Excuses for Late Rent by Tenants
- Fair market rental value
- Mortgage Rates up 6 Weeks in a Row
- Flat Fee or Full Commission Real Estate?
- Confronting Foreclosure instead of Hiding from it
July 2005
- Buying that Pink House for Nothing
- NEW Tallest Building in US Coming to Chicago
- Rich Dad’s Kiyosaki Dumping Real Estate
- Real estate booms don’t always lead to busts
- Real Estate Investing & REITs
- FICO Scores and your credit makeup
- Five Key Risks of Today’s Real Estate Market
- Finding a “legit” real estate investing club
- Finding the Owner of a Property
June 2005
May 2005
- Real Estate Clubs Booming! – Stock Clubs Busting?
- Investors Who Do vs. Investors Who Don’t
- U.S. plans antitrust suit over real-estate listings
April 2005
- Real Estate Forms & Contracts
- Feds Probes RE Agents For Anticompetitive Practices
- How People Get Rich
- New Real Estate Chatroom
- Getting Started in REI for Under $400
- Upcoming Real Estate Crash Will Lead to Recession
- Traditional Brokerages Battling Internet and Discount Realtors
- Greenspan and the real estate bubble
- Average Price of Manhattan Apartment Tops $1.2 Mln
March 2005
- New Lessons from Donald Trump
- Real estate investors see few 2005 worries-survey
- Foreigners buying up U.S. property
- Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms
- How to play a slowdown in real estate
- Real estate foreclosures up in latest survey
- Real estate speculation can be a risky investment
- Senators Introduce Legislation to Extend Popular Real Estate Tax Provisions
- Economist describes positive outlook for real estate
- Real Estate Wealth Expo Coming
- Real estate house-romp row boils
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- Harlem’s New Rush: Booming Real Estate
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