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Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | March 8, 2011The #1 rule governing baseball pitchers is — throw strikes. If they can’t do that consistently, they can have Nolan Ryan’s fastball, Sandy Koufax’s curveball, and a change-up that’d make Trevor Hoffman cry, and they’ll never make it in The Bigs. This truism was hammered home to me as a college umpire. There are a [...]
Commentary by Bryan Hancock | September 19, 2010 
Business school prepares you well to do complicated analysis of projects with cash flow patterns that are irregular. Fancy tools like the internal rate of return (IRR) are often used to decide where to optimally park real estate investment funds. Investors have different time horizons, risk profiles, required returns, etc. and will thus analyze projects [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by J Scott | September 15, 2010I picked up a new house last week…I call it “The Haggle House” due to the extensive negotiation it took to convince the bank to sell me this REO… In this post, I want to walk through the analysis I did to determine whether this property would be a good candidate as a mid-term rental [...]
Real Estate Investing by J Scott | September 2, 2010Today’s Quiz: What is my return on the following investment: I bought my first investment property back in August 2008. I paid $63,500 for the house using my own cash. I spent the next two months rehabbing it with $34,000 of my own cash. It sat for about 5 months before I lease-optioned it for [...]
Real Estate Tips by Tom Koziol | April 10, 2009Image by Getty Images via Daylife I must be in a cost/price/value mindset since my last post dealt with replacement cost should a disaster befall one or more of your properties. Today I will attempt to make the point that cost and/or price doesn’t always equal value. Most of us understand this truism but every [...]
Learn Real Estate by Tom Koziol | January 30, 2009How High Is Up? The answer can be as simple as one flight of stairs. It also can be as grotesque as 300%. Since I’m talking about real estate, I’ll skip the flight of stairs type of answer and concentrate on the 300% side. Unless you’ve been living in a cave in Zimbabwe, you know [...]
Real Estate by Anwell Tsai | January 15, 2009 
Let’s assume you’ve been presented with two outstanding investment properties to purchase. Both can be purchased at a great discount and share similar risk profiles, though property A is significantly more expensive than property B. You’ve spent hours analyzing this to no avail. You have done extensive research in the market area. You know what [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Anwell Tsai | October 29, 2008In a Comparative Market Analysis, adjustments to comparable property oftentimes are made to reflect the motivations of a delineated market area’s typical buyer and seller. Adjustments for conditions of sale reflect the motivations of buyers and sellers when they are not typically motivated and purchases do not reflect arm’s-length transactions. ADJUST FOR SALES BETWEEN RELATIVES/FRIENDS [...]
Learn Real Estate by Troy Schuricht | April 18, 2008Due 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 [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | March 3, 2008Determining the value of an apartment building investment is one of the greatest difficulties that many new commercial real estate investors face. Most people who invest in apartments have some experience investing in other types of real estate, typically residential homes or duplexes and triplexes. The issue that new investors face is the fact that [...]
Real Estate Investing by Richard Warren | November 27, 2007I was having a conversation with someone that had absolutely nothing to do with investing. The conversation was about a different business but he was talking about how difficult it was to work with people who were always trying to cut corners. People often think that they know better than the experts do, or that [...]
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by Bryan Hancock | September 19, 2010Business school prepares you well to do complicated analysis of projects with cash flow patterns that are irregular. Fancy tools like the internal rate of return (IRR) are often used to decide where to optimally park real estate investment funds. Investors have different time horizons, risk profiles, required returns, etc. and will thus analyze projects [...]