Entrepreneurship

How to Acheive Your Personal and Business Goals in Five Minutes a Day

by Ryan Moeller | November 3, 2009
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If something takes 5 minutes a day, but saves countless hours and drastically improves your success would you do it?  100% of you are saying yes right now . . . now I want you to commit one whole year to doing this before you have the chance to back out.  You will be amazed [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Apartment Vacancy Rate Hits Its Highest Point In Nearly 25 Years

by Christina Inman | November 2, 2009

In what is an interesting phenomenon, apartment vacancies have hit their highest point since 1986 in cities across the country. 
According to Reis Inc., a New York real-estate research firm that tracks vacancies and rents in the top 79 U.S. markets, the vacancy rate reached 7.8% this summer, which is normally a strong period for rentals. [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Getting “The Rent I Need”

by Brendan O'Brien | November 2, 2009

I was astonished to hear these words coming from a seasoned investor – somebody I respect a lot.  “I need to rent the place for at least $1,200,” he said.  “I won’t rent it until I can get at least that.”
The rental unit in question had been sitting vacant for about six months.  It wasn’t [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

Loan Characteristics and Their Effect on Your Prospective Investment Project (Part 1)

by Kyle Koller | November 2, 2009

Most real estate investors acquire income properties by obtaining a loan. As you are probably aware, maximizing loan funds (or OPM—Other People’s Money) maximizes leverage and, thus, maximizes returns. The right loan product can easily make or break a real estate investment deal. As such, exploring various loan characteristics is more than warranted.
Lender Recourse
Regarding lender [...]

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Economy

Real Estate, The Stimulus And…Golf Carts?

by Richard Warren | November 2, 2009
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Government efforts to stimulate the economy and prevent the recession from being as deep as it could have been have met with mixed results and that’s not a big surprise. When you spend $787 Billion on so many different programs you will have some that work, others that are so-so and some that are complete [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How Helping Other Companies Can Make Your Real Estate Business More Money

by Peter Kolat | November 1, 2009

In the last weeks, I wrote part 2 of my short series on 7 different internet marketing strategies for driving a lot of traffic to a real estate website without relying on search engines.  Dozens of people re-tweeted that post and several commented on it.  I wanted to thank you for your support here — [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Trick or Treat Real Estate Marketing! Would you try this?

by J. Lamar Ferren | October 31, 2009
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Ok, there’s something I’ve been thinking about for a very long time that could possibly bring in some good business.
What I’m going to cover here is an offline marketing strategy that has not been tested before.
It’s just something I’ve been thinking about and I want to know how you feel about it.
Before I let you [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Relationships Matter: Lessons from Across the Date Line

by Molly Castelazo | October 30, 2009
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I just got back from a week in China — for business mostly, plus some tourist time at the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, and wandering the hutongs (traditional neighborhood alleyways) of Beijing.  I saw firsthand what I had earlier only read about — the importance of relationships in China.  It got [...]

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Selling Real Estate

Real Estate Auctions: Going Once, Going Twice . . . .

by Tom Koziol | October 30, 2009
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While once never used to sell real estate in the amount and quantity that is business du jour today, this method is becoming ever more popular. I am not talking about the auction process that takes place on the court house steps. I’m talking about auctions that sell homes by the boat load.
Most auctions are [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The Tax Lien Certificate Money Tree

by Justin McClelland | October 29, 2009

The Rundown
Tax Lien certificates can be a very lucrative and safe investment.  A tax lien is a claim against an item by another party, which utilizes that item as security for repayment of a loan or other claim. A tax lien is placed on a piece of property by the government when the owner fails [...]

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Real Estate

Using Leverage to Sell More and Take Your Business to the Next Level

by Christian Russell | October 29, 2009

Why are you in business? It’s an important question. Perhaps the ultimate question! A mentor of mine taught me a long time ago that knowing “why” is one of the most important things when it comes to getting positive results long term in your business.

Are you in business to make money?
Are you in business [...]

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Flipping Houses

How to Use Round Robin Auctions to Sell Your Investment Properties Quickly (Part 2)

by Shae Bynes | October 29, 2009
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Last week, in part 1 of this article,  I gave an overview of the steps to conduct a round robin auction to sell an investment property (particularly beautifully rehabbed homes) quickly. In part 2, I will give you some specific advertising ideas and also answer a possible question/concern you may have: What happens if [...]

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Economy

New Home Sales fall 3.6% for September, First Decline Since March

by Joshua Dorkin | October 28, 2009

The White House keeps telling us that we’re in a recovery, yet anyone watching the economy, housing, foreclosures, unemployment, the stock market, commercial real estate, and dozens of other factors will tell you that they have some rose colored glasses glued on. Of course, if they didn’t, what they would tell us is that [...]

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Commentary

Real Estate Fiasco Seems To Foreclose On Critical Thinking

by Charles Feldman | October 28, 2009
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Think.
That is one word I grant you. But, sadly, something fewer and fewer people seem to be doing when it comes to critical analysis of the near term prospects for the real estate market in the U.S. (And, yes, I know the real estate “market” is a patchwork of many markets dotted across the foreclosed [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

One Killer Creative Idea for Marketing Just About Anything to Just About Anyone in Real Estate

by Ben Roberts | October 28, 2009
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I think we’ve all heard about  Shadow Inventories, the Coming Foreclosure Wave, and the poor health of the real estate market in general lately.  If you haven’t, I’d wonder about your status as a member of the human race.  For the rest of us as investors, agents, and marketers.. we’re all trying to figure out [...]

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