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Why You Need to Check on Your Rental Properties

by Jason Hanson | January 8, 2012

I just read about a couple in South Carolina who had a rental property up for sale. One day, they received a call from one of their neighbors that it appeared someone was inside the property. Nobody was supposed to be in the house at the time so the couple headed over to their place [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The Real Estate Investor’s Guide to Understanding Property Inspection Reports

by Jeff Brown | March 15, 2011

Everyone has an opinion on pre-purchase property inspections. There is my personal favorite, the Do-It-Yourselfers, who make for comedic fodder on various TV shows. The predictable script finds them full blown into a rehab ‘goldmine’ only to learn their so-called stem to stern inspection missed five figures worth of problems. The Three Stooges act continues [...]

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The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: June 26, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | June 26, 2010

1 ) As an agent, what do you need to tell a client about a property they are interested in? Full disclosure walks you through it. The easy code to live by is just always be honest and you won’t get into trouble. 2 ) So many buyers ask us to let them know when [...]

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Thinking About Skipping the Home Inspection? Learn from the Real Estate Horror Stories!

by Tom Koziol | February 5, 2009

Most of us who have been in real estate for longer than 3 days know a property inspection is an important element in the process. An inspection may be more critical if you are in the foreclosure/short sale real estate arena. I say may be because you may think its import is equal across the [...]

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Five Additional Steps of Due Diligence When Buying a Rental Property

by Troy Schuricht | April 18, 2008

Due diligence is a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person, or the performance of an act with a certain standard of care. It can be a legal obligation, but the term will more commonly apply to voluntary investigations. A common example of [...]

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