agent

Is Your Realtor a GREAT Real Estate Agent?

by J Scott | August 11, 2010

There’s a BiggerPockets forum thread going on this week that addresses the issue of realtors, and whether they are worth their fee when selling your investment property. While I’m not going to address that particular issue in this post (suffice it to say, I believe great agents are worth every penny and not-so-great agents will [...]

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Commentary

Are There Really Other Offers Coming in on this Property?

by Joshua Dorkin | April 28, 2007

I was recently reading a discussion on our forums, where someone asked “How can you know for sure if someone is really making another offer? What if this happens…is there anything you can do?” There were some good responses on the forums, but I wanted to share a little story about a situation I recently [...]

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Commentary

Carnival of Real Estate Investing #4 Advice for Agents and Investors

by Joshua Dorkin | December 11, 2006

Last time we hosted a carnival, it stirred up a bit of controversy. Today, we’re announing the winners of a different Carnival – The Carnival of Real Estate Investing 4th Edition. There were many good submissions that investors and agents will find helpful – here are the best of the best: For Real Estate Investors [...]

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Economy

Snowstorm of Foreclosures Blanket Colorado County-Highest In Nation

by Charles Feldman | October 29, 2006

Not exactly a good time to own a mortgaged home in Weld County,Colorado, especially if you have an adjustable rate mortgage and are now facing escalating payments. CBS News reports that the county is leading the entire country in foreclosures, 1 in every 168 households. That, says CBS, is 700 (that’s seven HUNDRED) percent higher [...]

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Foreclosures

Foreclosures, Census Data, and Tough Times for Real Estate Agents

by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006

It looks like pending foreclosures from adjustable rate mortgages are affecting lower income people more then the rich, explains Al Tompkins at Poynter Online. Tompkins looks at recent stories in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida) and Winston-Salem Journal (N.C.) which illustrate this quite clearly. Black homeownership is falling in Louisville, Kentucky according the the US [...]

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