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Where to Search for Commercial Real Estate Online

by Ted Karsch | June 12, 2009

Loopnet.com – Loopnet is probably the largest and most well-known commercial real estate listing site. They claim to have over 630,000 active commercial real estate listings on their website. It costs $24.95 a month for visitors to have access to all of the property listings. The free membership for visitors allows full search capability, however, [...]

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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

Buy an Apartment Building Today?

by Ted Karsch | July 22, 2008

Buy an Apartment Building Today?
In today’s turbulent financial markets many investors are looking for ways to grow their money that will offer a steady flow of predictable income and limited market risk. More and more people are buying apartment buildings to help diffuse the effects of inflation on their portfolios. Apartment buildings offer many exceptional [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Investment Team – A Real Investment Team

by Mike Farmer | March 25, 2008

This week I’d like to be both practical and a little futuristic. On Bloodhound Blog, my blog, Bonzai, and several other blogs, such as, A Life That POPS, lately, there has been talk about changes in the real estate field, and one of those changes, the team approach, is a topic I’d like to relate [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Real Estate Investment: Knowledge Sharing

by Mike Farmer | March 4, 2008

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
Benjamin Franklin

As discussed before, information gathering, processing and analyzing is the investing foundation. Knowing as much as possible about land use changes, zoning, transportation and such will put the investor in a position of making an informed decision. Becoming an expert in the area you’ve chosen [...]

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Real Estate Resources

CashflowandEquity.com Simplifies Investing in Turn-Key Real Estate

by Joshua Dorkin | October 26, 2007

CashflowandEquity.com is the website of Cornerstone Investment Group, a company that has gained recognition for its specialty–offering turn-key properties to real estate investors. Simply put, this investment company promises to ease the “headaches of being a landlord.” No simple task, but the company says it can do this by providing properties that are “renovated,rented and [...]

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Blogs

Carnival of Real Estate Investing: Volume 8

by Joshua Dorkin | January 22, 2007

Hi everyone and welcome to Volume 8 of the Carnival of Real Estate Investing. While there are many good submissions this week, only 2 are of any help to real estate investors (I’ve marked them with **). I hope upcoming editions of the carnival have more useful information to help the everyday investor [...]

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BiggerPockets News

Farewell 2006! Thanks to the Audience of BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Investing Guide!

by Joshua Dorkin | December 31, 2006

On this last day of 2006, I just wanted to once again thank everyone for visiting! It has been an amazing year, and we’ve come a long way. We’ve had hundreds of thousands of visitors view many millions of pages!

Photo Taken at Hong Kong Disneyland 11/06

If you’re a reader of this blog, [...]

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Cool Stuff

Don’t Just Buy a Home, Buy an Island!

by Joshua Dorkin | December 13, 2006

Looking for your own place under the sun? Do you want to find a nice home to settle down in? Sick of crowded city-living?
Why just buy a home when you can buy your own private island!

Private Islands Online is a fantastic resource that will let you find your Dream Island!
The site has islands [...]

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Commentary

Birth of a National MLS? Meet Zillow . . .

by Joshua Dorkin | December 9, 2006

Tim Maitski of the Atlanta Report predicts that internet powerhouse Zillow might creep into the national scene to become a replacement for the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) operated by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
According to Maitski:

Zillow has the potential to be the standard national MLS system open and free to anyone and [...]

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Real Estate Market

Real Estate Dispatch – November 28, 2006

by Joshua Dorkin | November 28, 2006

Protecting Your Investment in the Event of an Earthquake

How to make a million in real estate: get your home on This Old House

What is a Loft?

See How Many Homes Before You Buy?

Remodeling Trends: Wrought Iron Elegance

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Blogs

Real Estate Blog Carnival #20 Real Estate Lessons

by Joshua Dorkin | November 27, 2006

After participating in many carnivals in the past, I’m excited to be hosting my first – this week’s edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. It seems that many of the real estate bloggers were busy stuffing themselves with turkey this week — there were not many submissions to the carnival, which is sad [...]

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BiggerPockets News

Launch of the First True Real Estate Wiki

by Joshua Dorkin | November 26, 2006

We’ve Just Launched the First TRUE Real Estate Wiki
I’m excited to share with everyone the launch of our Real Estate Wiki – http://wiki.biggerpockets.com ! In an effort to continue to bring helpful tools and resources to the real estate community, we thought that a wiki devoted wholy to real estate would be a logical next [...]

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Commentary

A Review of GovHomeUSA

by Joshua Dorkin | November 23, 2006

There are tons of great resources out there for real estate investors and I try my hardest to bring the best of the best to you all. I spent some time today exploring GovHomeUSA, a site that lists properties for sale by various agencies in the federal government, including those from HUD [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Zillow Takes Step Towards Democratizing Home Prices

by Joshua Dorkin | September 20, 2006

Starting today, Zillow is allowing its users to get their say in what homes are worth by allowing them to enter their own price estimates alongside the site’s proprietary Zestimates. Apparently the move was in response to feedback from the users of the site.

I’ve heard much debate about the accuracy of the Zestimates, both [...]

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