Florida

Florida Brings About (Not Enough) Change to its LLC Statute

by Clint Coons | May 14, 2011

Last Summer the Florida Supreme Court created a legal Tsunami that washed over the legal community when it handed down it’s opinion in Olmstead v. FTC. In that case, the FTC had obtained a judgment for more than $10 million against Olmstead for operating a credit card scam. The FTC obtained an order requiring the [...]

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Real Estate Resources

US Census Has Valuable Information For Real Estate Investors

by Joe Manausa, MBA | March 29, 2011

If you are an active real estate investor, then you most likely are aware of the new information that is being released by the US Census Bureau. Their 2010 Census Website is chock full of useful data regarding population growth and movement trends. But there are some other key data that is also highly important [...]

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Economy

Standard & Poor’s Economist: Housing Stabilized But Prices to Drop 5-6%

by Ryan Hinricher | March 29, 2010

Thursday, I attended Standard & Poor’s Market View of Credit Risk summit here in New York. David Wyss, the Chief Economist of Standard & Poor’s was the keynote speaker giving an economic outlook for the remainder of the year and beyond. Despite him commenting on the overall economy, he spent much of the presentation focused [...]

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Real Estate

Down Go Home Prices! Economy Still Awaits Jolt From Real Estate Market To Begin Recovery

by Charles Feldman | May 13, 2009

So, is it good or bad news that home prices have –as Bloomberg.com puts it–”dropped the most on record in the first quarter from a year earlier?” Depends how you look at it. On the one hand, the lower prices mean that some people who might not have been able to buy homes before can [...]

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Real Estate

Why the Country Needs Investors!

by Joshua Dorkin | April 9, 2009

The following is a guest blog by Matt Milmeister, author of Mastering the Art of Foreclosure Investing. Anytime there is a foreclosure and the bank takes these properties back, they sit vacant. When this happens, the yards and houses further deteriorate and they become eyesores for their neighborhoods. Then property values of perfectly good homes [...]

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