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Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | December 22, 2011 
Roger Ellis was the vice principal of my high school. He was firm, but fair. I know this because I spent a lot of time in his office. Apparently, Mr. Ellis had a problem with me parking in spaces reserved for teachers. This made no sense to me. I took an off-campus class in the [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Jeff Brown | June 22, 2011 
Show of hands, how many of you believe we’re in a general economic recovery as touted by the vast majority of news media? When Mom told you it wasn’t terrible goin’ to the senior prom with your weird cousin, did you believe her too? Or, did you believe what you knew were the facts — [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Joe Salcedo | June 14, 2011“Confront the brutal facts, but never lose hope that in the end you will prevail” – Jim Stockdale C.S Lewis warned us of the perils of other people’s opinion quietly creeping into our system. How the things we say and believe seldom come from our own original thought analysis. I remembered this stern warning as [...]
Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | June 13, 2011Joey Ragona is a real estate investor from Oakville, Ontario (WAY up north – somewhere in a place called Canada). In our interview with Joey (28:08 minutes), we get into topics such as building and running a business without distractions, targeting the most appropriate tenants, investing in single family homes, joint venture partnerships, investing in [...]
Landlord Tenant by Peter Giardini | June 10, 2011 
I was having breakfast this morning with a client and the subject of selecting and approving tenants came up. Our discussion first focused on the need for written standards to be used when approving tenants to ensure that you either approve or decline tenants in a uniform and consistent manner and then of course what those [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | June 7, 2011Kevin Amolsch is a real estate investor and hard money lender located in the Denver, Colorado area. In our interview with Kevin (26:54 minutes), we get some great tips about topics such as using owner financing, lease options, wholesaling, building a portfolio, the life of a landlord, tenant screening, building wealth, and hard money loans. [...]
Economy by Andrew C. MacDonald | June 6, 2011 
The real estate bubble that started at the turn of the millennium was the greatest we’ve seen in the past 120 years. As the saying goes, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” and this is why we’re still seeing the effects today. In hindsight we can shed some perspective on this last bubble [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Jim Simcoe | June 4, 2011 
Over the last several months I’ve talked about the importance of using energy audits in your projects. However, I’ve not (my apologies) ever really explained what they are and what the goals of doing them . . . here goes: The goals of an energy audit Determine the overall efficiency in the energy usage of [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Douglas Lazovick | June 4, 2011A quick rundown of the important real estate news from the week of May 28 – June 3, by the numbers: 15.2% – Jump in population in the Indianapolis-Carmel, IN area between 2000 and 2010, which is #1 on Inman’s list of “10 Best Markets for Real Estate Investors.” “By comparison, the U.S. population as a [...]
Landlord Tenant by Peter Giardini | June 2, 2011 
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article here on the BiggerPockets Blog entitled Landlords… How To Proceed When The Rent is Late! While the article had some good insight regarding actions you should be taking to protect both your rent and property when the rent is late, one of the comments to that [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | May 31, 2011Here’s another fantastic real estate investor interview (22:52 minutes) with Mark Updegraff, a buy and hold investor based in Rochester, NY, who is focused on his local market as well as parts of Pennsylvania. Mark shares his 4 years of experience and covers topics including working with turn-key investment firms, finding and screening tenants, and [...]
Selling Real Estate by Melissa Zavala | May 31, 2011 
Christopher Columbus is known for discovering that the world is, in fact, round. Albert Einstein is known for his Theory of Relativity. Well, I’ve got a theory, too. It’s the theory of the Everlasting Gobstopper. Over the last four years or so, I’ve come to reason that a short sale is kind of like the [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 30, 2011This week we cover the pending home sales release from the National Association of Realtors, new home sales, interest rates, and news on delinquency. Pending Home Sales Hit Skids The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported pending home sales plunged 11.6% in April. Year-over-year pending home sales are down 25.6% when the second home buyer [...]
Commentary by J. Lamar Ferren | August 31, 2010Have you ever wondered why some businesses fail? It’s more than just a business plan or lack thereof. I think its something much deeper than that. You see, in the mist of all this “doom & gloom” in the economy that we keep hearing about, there are businesses out there that are failing but there [...]
Real Estate by Jim Simcoe | June 11, 2010 
After 5 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in mistakes I thought I’d write a post for new investors just starting out. So, if I was going to start a ‘green’ real estate investment company tomorrow here’s what I’d do: Pick a company name, DBA and fill out the appropriate paperwork at your county [...]
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Believe What’s Being Sold – OR – Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes
by Jeff Brown | June 22, 2011Show of hands, how many of you believe we’re in a general economic recovery as touted by the vast majority of news media? When Mom told you it wasn’t terrible goin’ to the senior prom with your weird cousin, did you believe her too? Or, did you believe what you knew were the facts — [...]