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by Spencer Cullor | February 2, 2012

A man and his realtor walk down the street and the man says “Realtor, I want to buy that house,” pointing to a beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath home, “What should I offer?” The realtor responds, “Well, I’ve looked at the comparable sales in the neighborhood and it looks like another 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home [...]

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Real Estate Investment Schools of Thought Vary – As Does Their Mileage

by Jeff Brown | February 2, 2012

Many years ago a guy in his early 40s called for an office appointment. He’d invested in his first small income property, and was troubled by the advice his 70 year old dad had offered. In fact, there was tension between them about what investment strategies the younger man should employ. Dad, we’ll call him [...]

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Real Estate

Know The Flood Zone Before You Buy

by Ken Corsini | February 1, 2012

Today I learned a valuable lesson about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of the flood zone designation from our municipal tax database. I’ve known not to rely on the square footage or even the number of bedrooms listed in the tax assessor’s database, but I’ve always assumed that the flood zone designation was accurate. I have [...]

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Foreclosures

Bulk Sales of GSE Foreclosures Begin

by Steve Cook | February 1, 2012

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today invited investors interested in purchasing pools of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA foreclosures in the nations hardest-hit metropolitan areas with the requirement they rent them for a period of year to pre-qualify. The new bulk sales program, under discussion since August, will begin with a pilot program [...]

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Foreclosures

Foreclosure Update: Happier Days on the Way for Judicial States

by Steve Cook | February 1, 2012

America has become a nation of two foreclosure realities: judicial states, where judicial review is required for every foreclosure, and non-judicial states. Both have their processing problems, but delays in judicial states are setting new records and impacting local real estate economies. December data from Lender Processing Services (LPS) paints a picture of increasingly clogged [...]

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Short Sales

What’s Going on in REO World?

by Melissa Zavala | January 31, 2012

Crazy, crazy, crazy. One of the agents in my office recently got an assignment for an REO. How exciting!. Agents love REO assignments, and this wasn’t his first. Here’s the crazy part: When I was going over the paperwork, I noticed that the property had been foreclosed upon by the lender in 2008. I couldn’t believe it, so [...]

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Real Estate

If I were designing a Real Estate Investing Course

by Michael Zuber | January 31, 2012

Please Note this is just an outline of a sample course and I am not selling or promoting anything. I am simply frustrated by the lack of straight forward, simple to understand real estate investing courses. I was so frustrated that I took some time on my yearly vacation to design an eight-hour program that [...]

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Real Estate

Life Changing Mentors

by Sharon Vornholt | January 30, 2012

I was listening to a program recently and the hosts were talking about mentors; specifically about the people in their lifetime that had actually changed their life. What these folks were talking about in most cases was someone that listened to them, valued them, had given them crucial information or a “chance” at something. They [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Advertising on the top of a cab?

by Jason Hanson | January 29, 2012

I’m a big believer in always testing new marketing ideas. After all, an idea you think is never going to work may turn into a blockbuster method and get you a ton of deals. In fact, just this morning I had a friend of mine email me and tell me that he was in a [...]

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How to Buy Real Estate after a Strategic Default

by Marty Boardman | January 28, 2012

A patent attorney. A certified public accountant. A physical therapist. A Realtor. A retired utility company worker. A mechanical engineer. A doctor. A nurse practitioner. An elementary school psychologist. These are just a handful of people I know that have strategically defaulted on an underwater mortgage. While their backgrounds and occupations are diverse, all are [...]

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Real Estate News by the Numbers: Week of January 21 – January 27

by Douglas Lazovick | January 28, 2012

A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of January 21 – January 27, by the numbers: $25 Million – Listing price for billionaire Tim Headington’s Miami Beach penthouse. The 11,962 square foot unit is located next door to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s unit. 6.2% – Drop in new U.S. homes [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

4 Tips for Creating Killer Real Estate Marketing Emails

by Jeff Logue | January 27, 2012

Did you realize that you could currently be sitting on a mound of cash for your business? Leads that are literally ripe for the picking? And in fact, most of your competition is probably not taking the necessary steps to liquidate this real estate marketing goldmine into consistent closed transactions. What I’m referring to is [...]

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Real Estate

Make Agents Your Seller Financing Allies

by Kevin Kaczmarek | January 27, 2012

It’s a hurdle most real estate investors run into early in their careers…. How to find real estate agents that understand the “unique” offers investors make to seller’s agents. Whether it’s the idea of buying with seller financing or taking an option on a property, most real estate agents have never heard of these transactions [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Mortgage Notes – A Hard “Land-ing”

by Alan Noblitt | January 25, 2012

Yesterday, a guy called me wanting to sell his mortgage on a small piece of land located in a desolate area, far from any population centers. The parcel had access to water (from a well) but no other improvements. He purchased the property last summer for $60K and had just sold it for $110K. Of [...]

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