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The 10 Documents You Must Use When Doing a Lease Option

by Jason Hanson | August 21, 2008

I’m still training for my marathon and I still want to shoot myself as I jog through the summer heat in my Bill Clinton shorts (maybe I’d be having more fun if I had an intern?). Anyway, I’m in this marathon mess because of a promise I made to a friend. So, I [...]

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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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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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Commercial Real Estate

How to Increase the Value of an Apartment Building Investment

by Ted Karsch | July 29, 2008

One of the great aspects of being an apartment building owner is the ability the owner has to increase value in a variety of different ways. All of these methods for increasing value will not apply to every apartment building, however, I would venture to propose that there is not one apartment building in any [...]

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Commentary

How Three Commercial Mortgage Brokers Saved My Backside!

by Rob Powell | July 26, 2008

Greetings from a jam-packed airplane headed North. I am on my way to go Walleye fishing in South Dakota. I am not an avid fisherman by any means and I have no idea how to fish for Walleye….but off I go to make new friends and to reconnect with another.
Anyways….
As [...]

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Blogs

Investing in Real Estate? Be Sure to Plan Your Exit Strategy!

by Richard Warren | July 21, 2008

In his landmark book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey calls the second habit: Begin With The End In Mind. Nowhere is that more true than in today’s real estate market. When investing in real estate, the End in Mind is your exit strategy. Unless you just like to wander aimlessly [...]

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Blogs

A Tale of Two Real Estate Gurus

by Richard Warren | July 14, 2008

Those who run real estate investment clubs have a big challenge in lining up speakers for each meeting.  Clubs do not usually have the kind of budget that would allow them to pay for speakers, therefore they need to do their best to locate those that will speak for free.  This invariably results in the [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Buy an Apartment Building — How to Structure Your Offer

by Ted Karsch | June 30, 2008

As I stress time and time again to new apartment building investors, before making an offer on any apartment building real estate property be sure that the investment will be a profitable one. Banks and commercial mortgage lenders will only lend money on an apartment building that has a Debt Service Coverage Ratio of [...]

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Getting the Most From Your Real Estate Club

by Richard Warren | June 30, 2008

One piece of advice that is frequently offered to those wishing to invest in real estate is to join a local real estate investment club.  Okay, now what?  While taking that first step to actually attend a club meeting is great, it is only the beginning. To make it a worthwhile endeavor requires some effort on [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Sink or Swim – Tips For Getting Started In Real Estate Investing

by Rob K. Blake | June 29, 2008

I love reading other folks’ stories discovering how they got into real estate investing. Everybody’s path is unique and entertaining. Reading the BiggerPockets forum this week, there was a thread on exactly that and it gave me the idea for this article. In the vein of “still getting to know each other”, [...]

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Learn Real Estate

Elementary Investment Suggestions

by Mike Farmer | June 3, 2008

Basic Real Estate Project Planning and Management
This will be elementary to seasoned investors, but I’m assuming many investors using BiggerPockets are beginning and collecting information, so I thought it might be useful to go over basic project planning and management. I have learned these things from experience, but mainly through knowing smart investors.
When considering [...]

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Commentary

Do Valuations Continue to Slide for Years? What’s The Answer?

by Tom Koziol | May 30, 2008
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Financing Real Estate

My Advice? Buy a FourPlex

by Troy Schuricht | May 22, 2008

Community First Financial talks to many of investors every day and there are some thoughts I would like to share with you on our experiences with investors, particularly first time investors.
One of the top questions I hear from investors is, What would you do?
If I could start my investing life all over again [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Real Estate Investing? Be Patient!

by Troy Schuricht | May 15, 2008

I talk to hundreds of investors every month and there are some thoughts I would like to share with you on my experiences with investors, particularly first time investors.
The question I hear the most for our investors is, How do I to get ready to start investing?
The answer for me is two parts.

Are you ready [...]

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Learn Real Estate

Title Insurance: The Basics

by Joshua M. Marks, Esq. | May 13, 2008

I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with their real estate agent, they don’t seem to understand its purpose or function–only that it will be an additional expense on the settlement sheet for which they are [...]

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