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Commentary by Michael Zuber | October 31, 2011Happy Halloween! I love Halloween for one simple reason, I get to make lots of people (mostly kids) smile. I love handing out big handfuls of candies to every trick-or-treator. I always buy way too much candy with the sole idea of getting kids to say “Wow!” or “Did you see how much he gave [...]
Real Estate Investing by Alan Noblitt | September 30, 2011 
Mortgage notes and the owner financing market have a relative purity that is difficult to match in the rest of the lending world. A mortgage note (a.k.a. real estate note or deed of trust note) is an arms-length transaction in which a party sells his or her property to a willing buyer on terms to [...]
Read the full article → Financing Real Estate by Spencer Cullor | September 6, 2011If you’ve been investing in real estate for a while, chances are you have considered using private money lenders (investors) to grow your business. Most people fail when reaching out to potential investors because they don’t answer the five critical questions that every private lender must have answered before investing with you (even if they [...]
Economy by Alan Noblitt | August 19, 2011Rarely do I come across something intelligent from any government leader associated with a monetary or economic entity. Below, I note not just one but two brilliant pieces with which I fully agree. The first was a speech by a region president of the Fed – of all places. As many of us who stay [...]
Commentary by Ken Corsini | August 11, 2011If you are one of the lucky ones who happen to be in the process of locking in an interest rate over the last week or two, you probably saw that rates are way down. In fact, rates on 15 year fixed mortgages as well as 5 year ARMs hit record lows last week. As [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Kevin Kaczmarek | August 10, 2011Yesterday was another roller coaster ride on Wall Street and outside of your mutual funds, stock and bonds, what happened yesterday has a major impact on your real estate business. For months now we have been talking about buying and selling properties with seller financing. There was one particular article that now has a greater [...]
Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | June 7, 2011Kevin Amolsch is a real estate investor and hard money lender located in the Denver, Colorado area. In our interview with Kevin (26:54 minutes), we get some great tips about topics such as using owner financing, lease options, wholesaling, building a portfolio, the life of a landlord, tenant screening, building wealth, and hard money loans. [...]
Real Estate News by Dean Ouellette | March 28, 2010 
1 ) Video Is The Future – A longer video that Jim the Realtor does walking through houses, but fast forward to about 3:45 and he starts talking about how we can use video in the future to view houses. 2 ) Discussions about Brokerages wer the talk of the RE.net world this week and does [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Chris Birk | March 19, 2010 
FHA Chief David Stevens didn’t exactly inspire confidence last week when he rebuffed repeated calls to boost the housing program’s minimum down payment. In fact, he might have injected a new degree of concern into the already murky debate over how to reform the increasingly crucial home lending program. As has been covered extensively here [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Peter Giardini | March 18, 2010 
I hope I got your attention? If you have not been paying attention to the changes the leading mortgage lender in the country is up to, you may want to start paying attention now! A little background: For many years FHA has served a specific portion the home buying population that could not obtain mortgages [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Charles Feldman | March 17, 2010All good things must come to an end; especially when that good thing may or may not have been that good to begin with. I’m talking, of course, about the Federal Reserve’s affirmation this week that it plans to go ahead and stop buying mortgage-backed securities by the end of this month. These purchases are [...]
Financing Real Estate by Adam Davis | February 13, 2010 
The cat has been out of the bag for some time now. Surprise – we’re in the midst of what many experts call a “foreclosure crisis.” (thanks talking media heads). It’s as if some people are just waking up to the fact that the house down the street from them just sold at auction. For [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Tom Koziol | February 12, 2010As a general rule of thumb, mortgage payments have been the top bill that has always been paid. However, high unemployment, sliding home prices and other economic kicks in the butt, have a growing number of struggling consumers doing what was once considered unthinkable: paying their credit card bills instead of their mortgages. On the [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Peter Giardini | February 4, 2010 
Last week I wrote about my discussions with a local loan officer for a small bank in my area. This article really touched a nerve not only with the number of comments but also with at least one of my clients. I sent a link to the article out to my clients to ensure they [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Brian Brady | January 29, 2010If you’re a real estate scavenger, who likes to buy foreclosure properties at a deep discount and “flip” them to retail home buyers, the FHA anti-flipping rule has always been a thorn in your side. Come Monday, February 1, 2010, HUD has agreed to suspend that prohibition for a period of 12 months. 123flip.com reports [...]
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by Michael Zuber | October 31, 2011Happy Halloween! I love Halloween for one simple reason, I get to make lots of people (mostly kids) smile. I love handing out big handfuls of candies to every trick-or-treator. I always buy way too much candy with the sole idea of getting kids to say “Wow!” or “Did you see how much he gave [...]