investment real estate

Appreciation Rate Isn’t What’s Most Important

by Jeff Brown | February 2, 2010

Lost in the weekend conversation about the current state of your portfolios, beside the fact your steak just cruised past medium rare, is what’s really important. Assuming your main goal is an ever increasing net worth, obsessing on appreciation can sometimes take your eye off the ball. That ball is capital growth. But isn’t appreciation [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The Benefits of a 1031 Tenant in Common Exchange

by Grant Conness | October 31, 2008

A Tenant in Common 1031 Exchange, a (TIC), allows the owner of investment, business or income producing property to exchange it for a fractional ownership in another large commercial property or multiple industrial grade properties. When the IRS requirements for this type of exchange are followed, capital gains and depreciation recapture taxes may be deferred. [...]

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Flipping Houses

Getting Started In Rehab Real Estate

by Richard Warren | February 5, 2008

You want to [tag]rehab[/tag] [tag]houses[/tag], but where do you start? We see the fix-and-[tag]flip[/tag] “reality” shows that, somehow, manage to have no basis in reality. How hard can it be to buy a house, rehab it, sell it, and retire to a life of luxury on the French Riviera? On TV, it all happens in [...]

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