Financing Real Estate by Florence Foote | November 3, 2009 
One study of mortgages during the Great Depression found that almost half of urban, owner-occupied homes (on which there was a mortgage) were in default by 1934. The government’s answer was to sponsor the creation of Fannie Mae in 1938 (or as it is really called, the Federal National Mortgage Association), which was, and still [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Craig Grella | October 23, 2009To recap Residential Land Development Part 2, we discussed the importance of performing an economic feasibility study with cost estimating to determine a max price land offer and whether or not there is enough profit in your potential deal to warrant spending more time on it, or actually developing the land.
Assuming you’ve done that initial research and arrived at the conclusion your numbers look good, you’re ready to go back and do it all over again. This time you’re going to be more exact with your numbers. To do that, you’ll really need to hone in on the potential design of your house, and to do that you need to research what’s possible on your lot. You do that by learning all you can about the zoning codes in your city. These are the third and fourth steps in the residential land development process.
Joshua Dorkin
Inflation Is The Real Estate Investor’s Best Friend.
by Florence Foote | November 24, 2009Actually, if you are investing in stocks and bonds, mutual funds, or just about anything else (except, perhaps, commodities), inflation can be a real killer. The title of this article was adapted from a recent article in Forbes entitled “U.S. Dollar Has A Long Way To Fall“, which posed the question: “[w]hy does the Fed [...]