Cool Stuff by Charles Feldman | November 25, 2009 
At a time when banks have been sucking blood dry from homeowners, forcing countless of them into foreclosure, isn’t it nice to know that you can turn the tables and buy a chunk of real estate that banks will not mess with. If they know what’s good for them, anyway. For a paltry $3.3 million [...]
Read the full article → Cool Stuff by Joshua Dorkin | September 21, 2009
It’s been a while since we last hosted the Carnival of Real Estate . . . with 29 submissions, this one required a bit more work than last time. That said, I’m puzzled why there aren’t hundreds or even thousands of submissions. With all the people in real estate who are blogging, I can’t imagine why more people aren’t taking the two minutes a week it takes to participate in the carnival.
Here are my pics for this week’s Carnival of Real Estate:
- Is Buying a Rental Property Worth it? from Alex. This post grabbed me for one reason – it was the tale of someone struggling as a landlord; someone willing to let everyone else in on his problems. He tells of his mass of evictions, vacancies, and more. My advice to Alex is to take some time and start reading the forums, articles, and this blog here on BiggerPockets before he does anything else in real estate. I don’t know much about him, but it sounds like he needs some help and the support of other successful landlords. I’d like to personally invite Alex to join us and I hope the rest of the community will do their best to help him turn his struggling landlording venture around!
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Just Imagine the Mortgage Paid by Lakshmi Mittal on the World’s Most Expensive House
by Joshua Dorkin | May 23, 2008The World’s Most Expensive House London’s paper, The Sun, today shares with us the rumored sale of the Most Expensive House in the World. The home is located on “Billionaires Row” in London and is set to sell for a WHOPPING £117million or approximately $232 million to Lakshmi Mittal, the steel Tycoon, and one of [...]