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Interest Rates

What Can Investors Negotiate with Mortgage Loan Officers?

by Troy Schuricht | February 29, 2008

Negotiating the terms of your loan can be as important as negotiating the sales price of your new investment property. Interest rates and closing cost a huge part of cash flow and return on investment, with the proper due diligent and negotiations, investors can be rewarded on every real estate transaction.
What can actually be [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Techniques for Covering Closing Costs

by Michael Creel | December 21, 2007

Although the days of getting cash credits towards closing costs are seemingly coming to an end with the tightening of mortgage regulations, there are still viable ways to accomplish that goal. Both Non-Agency and Dual-Agency arrangements can be used for this purpose.
Often buyers mistakenly believe Dual-Agency is created when buyers approach a listing agent and [...]

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Commentary

A Nightmare Closing Saga: Part II

by Jim Watkins | December 20, 2007

(This is the second and final part to the article. Check out Part I)
The next afternoon I got a call from the buyers’ agent. She told me that the buyers refused to switch title companies as I had requested (the closing was set to take place four days later). I asked her when she [...]

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Commentary

A Nightmare Closing Saga – Part I

by Jim Watkins | December 16, 2007

Last year, I bought a house, rehabbed it and finally sold it. When I got a contract to sell it, the experience I endured was simply gut-wrenching. I got “sand-bagged” just about every way possible until I fought back… And WON! Here is what happened…

This house was the first house deal I had done since [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How Real Estate Attorneys Can Save Investors Money. Beware of Legalized Theft!

by Jim Watkins | October 11, 2007

I closed on an investment house in February this year. I was scheduled to close at 4:30pm on a Friday. When it reached 8:00pm and I still had not signed, I told the escrow agent to call me when she “got it right.” The following Monday, I went in after the mess had been cleared [...]

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