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Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | January 13, 2012 
Writer’s block. It happens to all bloggers from time to time. This morning as I sat staring blankly at my computer screen the phone rang. It was Monty, a BiggerPockets reader. He’s about to retire after 30 years of military service and wants to get into real estate investing. Now this is a really tired [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | January 21, 2011 
This week the USA Today reported that “nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority.” The article went on to state that “after two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by J Scott | June 24, 2010While most of my active real estate efforts go towards rehabbing/flipping houses, I’m a huge fan of investing in apartments. I’ve done some passive investing in the past (invested in other people’s projects) and am always on the looking for great apartment deals to add to my portfolio. Why do I love apartment investing so [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Kyle Koller | November 23, 2009 
One of the many benefits of real estate investing is depreciation—the loss in the value of a building over time due to wear and tear, deterioration and age. Depreciation can only be applied to the building, not to the land. After all, land does not wear out over time. Luckily for real estate investors, building [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Troy Schuricht | October 3, 2008What Make A Good Renter? Is a good renter someone with great credit, or large deposit or maybe high income? The approach landlords take in qualifying their renter could be changing because of the housing crisis and the large number of foreclosures. The main objective of renting your home should be to have a qualified renter that will [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Rob K. Blake | June 23, 2008As a young boy, I was lucky to have some great mentors. My grandmother is one of the best business teachers I’ve ever had and before I get too deep (which I will in future articles) into the financial analysis of real estate investing, mortgage financing, and other “on target” topics, I thought it best [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Deals by Charles Feldman | October 20, 2006Location…Location…Location. The battle cry of real estate brokers. And, location is what a new “landmark” plan for middle-income housing in New York City has: Directly across the river from the United Nations in Queens…24 acres! New York City Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement and, according to Jill Gardiner’s account in The New York Sun, the city [...]
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