real-estate-investors

Real Estate Investors: How to Build an Effective Website

by Joe Salcedo | June 28, 2011

I was recently reading an article on the New York Times, “What would you do if you threw a $41 million party and nobody came? It talks about a group of venture capitalists investing in a start up, color.com While reading I came across venture capitalists behemoths Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital Ventures. If these [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Title Insurance

by Ken Corsini | June 23, 2011

Over the past few years I have been involved in hundreds of real estate transactions but only recently have I given thought to the importance of title insurance. I knew in theory that the possibility existed for an old title issue to crop up and a claim made on the policy, but really never gave [...]

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Commentary

How Not to Turn Into a Turn Key Real Estate Economist

by Joe Salcedo | June 14, 2011

“Confront the brutal facts, but never lose hope that in the end you will prevail” – Jim Stockdale C.S Lewis warned us of the perils of other people’s opinion quietly creeping into our system. How the things we say and believe seldom come from our own original thought analysis. I remembered this stern warning as [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Investors: Should You Get Your Real Estate License?

by J Scott | February 24, 2010

Not a week goes by where I don’t read a thread on BiggerPockets or receive an email asking the question, “Should I get my real estate license?” For anyone planning to become a long-term real estate investor, it’s a tremendously important decision that should be given a lot of thought. And while you can read [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

An Insiders Tale: Why Banks are Tightening on Real Estate Investments

by Peter Giardini | January 28, 2010

I just got off the phone with the commercial lending VP at a small local bank. This bank just survived its first Office of Thrift Supervision audit since the financial meltdown. This audit took the better part of two months — all for a bank with less then $200 million in assets. As I mentioned, they [...]

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BiggerPockets News

CBS News Interviews BiggerPockets Founder Joshua Dorkin About Ongoing Housing Crisis

by Joshua Dorkin | September 2, 2007

Today, CBS Network Radio News out of New York and KNX News Radio 1070 in Los Angeles, the premiere radio news station in Southern California, aired an interview with me, Joshua Dorkin, as founder of BiggerPockets.com, about the ongoing Housing Crisis. I was contacted because of a new report that shows that the mortgage crisis [...]

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