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Economy

Mortgage Rates are at 50 year lows!

by Steve Heideman | December 22, 2008

Mortgage markets improved last week for the second week in row. After the Federal Reserve said it would use “all available tools” to stimulate the economy, traders responded by driving mortgage rates to 50-year lows.
It didn’t last long, however.
After bottoming out early-Wednesday morning, mortgage rates trended higher all the way into Friday’s closing. It was [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Simple Rules for Raising Capital, Part 2 (Now It Gets More Complicated)

by Matt Pitcher | December 5, 2008

In my last blog, “Simple Rules for Raising Capital”, I hit some very basic high points that I think you must follow to become a world class capital raiser. This blog gets into more detail on that subject.
What follows is what I call “The Four As of Capital Raising”
1 – Accredited
This one is pretty simple. [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Adjust for Financing when Pricing Properties

by Anwell Tsai | December 4, 2008

Trying to determine the market value of a piece of property in a stable market is pretty simple.  Just find a few comparable homes in your area to find a probable range of values.  In today’s volatile Real Estate market, adjusting for factors such as property rights, conditions of sale, and market conditions, as well [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Simple Rules for Raising Capital

by Matt Pitcher | November 21, 2008

Piggybacking on my last post, “The Importance of Being Nimble“, I’d like to blog today about something that is absolutely critical to your ongoing investing success: raising capital.
In my opinion, it is a skill you must develop.
Must.
Not should.
Must.
Once you become very very good at raising capital, any amount of capital, you can accomplish anything.
Start any [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Private Money . . . Raise Your Hands if You Need It, Investors.

by Rosie Nieto | November 19, 2008

Well, pretty much everybody raised their hands at my club meeting last week when I asked this question.   Boy you can’t swing a dead cat around without hitting an investor who is looking for private money these days huh?  To be frank – I’m getting kind of bored hearing so many investors tell me this same problem [...]

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Economy

Mortgage Rates, The Economy and You

by Steve Heideman | November 17, 2008

In Frank Sinatra’s famous tune “That’s Life”, he penned the lyrics: “That’s life, that’s what all the people say. You’re riding high in April, Shot down in May” I am going to change them to “You’re riding high at 4:36pm on Tuesday, Shot down at 3pm Thursday” Lame intro–I know–but my point is made. The [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Private Investing in Real Estate Trust Deeds, in Simple English.

by Rosie Nieto | November 11, 2008

Well, that question is what I have spent the last week and half – UNLEARNING.  You see, I am a real estate investor and I, like many other investors, am always working on raising private money to use to close my deals fast (or, in this hellacious market – to close them at all!)  That [...]

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Financing Real Estate

The Top 15 Reason to Own an Apartment Building as an Investment Right Now

by Ted Karsch | October 14, 2008

You control the cash flow. Unlike other, passive, investments such as stocks and bonds, the owner of an apartment building is the CEO. If you need more cash flow and the local market will allow it, the owner can raise rents.

If you don’t want to manage the day to day operations of the apartment complex [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Are Municipal Bonds the Next Big Unknown Unknown?

by Ted Karsch | October 7, 2008

In the financial crisis of today, to use a popular maxim of Donald Rumsfeld’s invention, “there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns.” Some major unknowns have surfaced to become economic hurricanes reeking havoc on financial markets worldwide, such as the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. But what unknown unknowns are still lurking under [...]

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Blogs

The Real Estate Hunt

by Richard Warren | September 8, 2008

Imagine that you are on an African Safari. As you are working your way through the jungle in search of big game, suddenly you are confronted by a lion with a bad attitude. If you were armed like Rambo with a huge gun and lots of ammunition, you would probably come out of the encounter [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Buy an Apartment Building in 4 Steps

by Ted Karsch | August 20, 2008

The first purchase of an apartment building can seem like an overwhelming endeavor for the buyer. There is a lot of information and terminology that is suddenly thrust upon the first time investor and chances are that the new investor doesn’t have the knowledge base to accurately sift through the information to obtain and utilize [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Apartment Investing – A Look at Five Year Investment Returns

by Ted Karsch | August 12, 2008

Let’s take a look at some of the actual returns for a small apartment building investment over a period of five years. Whenever you are making projections into the future concerning investment returns it is always necessary to make some assumptions. In this case we will keep our assumptions very conservative and well in line with historical averages.

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Financing Real Estate

Finding Money for your Borrowers

by Troy Schuricht | August 7, 2008

With the credit crunch in full swing, investors should start to pay attention the the lending options available to their buyers. 
 Most investors and individuals in the real estate profession already know that it has become difficult to finance properties and with daily changing guidelines it is very hard to predict the future, but lets look into the [...]

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Financing Real Estate

4,150 Reasons That I Love Lease Options

by Jason Hanson | August 7, 2008

When I become President and it’s the United States of Jason, I will impose the death penalty on anyone that stops at a yield sign…for heavens’ sake, if you were supposed to stop, there would be a stop sign and not a yield sign. Do you think they put that extra strip of roadway [...]

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Commentary

How to Buy an Apartment Building

by Ted Karsch | August 5, 2008

Apartment buildings are starting to receive a lot of interest from many investors who have little or no experience in the world of commercial real estate. Investors are now attracted to apartment building investments because of their relative security, positive cash flow and growth potential.

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