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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 [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Spencer Cullor | August 31, 2011 
One of the biggest mistakes I see investors make when financially evaluating an investment property is that they fail to include a capital expense budget for the property. When acquiring an investment property, it is critical that you have a capital expense budget as well as a recurring replacement reserve factored into the equity you [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Market by Joe Manausa, MBA | March 8, 2011I just finished reading Ryan Hinricher’s article on The Week In Housing, as I typically do every Monday. By show of hands, who else likes to see this report? Ryan provides a nice synopsis of some key housing trends that only takes a few minutes to digest. One of the first thoughts that echoes in [...]
Real Estate by Joe Manausa, MBA | March 1, 2011 
I’m attending a conference of the top relocation professionals in the world (you know, real estate companies that move people from one part of the world to another) and this morning’s featured speaker was the CEO of Realogy, Richard A. Smith. For those of you who don’t know Richard Smith, he is one of the [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Tips by Joe Manausa, MBA | January 25, 2011I am always amazed when I see the typical real estate agent do their one deal of the year. Mostly, their customer is a family member who felt compelled to work with them because after all, “it’s family.” But what about all of the people who just work with the first agent that they find? [...]
Foreclosures by Joe Manausa, MBA | January 18, 2011 
One of the new buzz words to have sprung from the collapse of the housing market is “shadow inventory,” and when most industry “experts” report the numbers, they are referring to distressed properties that have yet to hit the market. Primarily, these are REO properties (homes that have changed ownership from individuals to lenders) and [...]
Read the full article → 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 → Cool Stuff by Joshua Dorkin | February 8, 2008With an economic crisis getting worse and worse, a housing bubble, doom and gloom everywhere, foreclosures, and subprime blowups, find out how you can take advantage and become rich with real estate. Enjoy the video, then pass it on and spread the love!
Real Estate Investing by Michael Creel | December 21, 2007Although the days of getting cash credits towards closing costs are seemingly coming to an end with the tightening of mortgage regulations, there are still viable ways to accomplish that goal. Both Non-Agency and Dual-Agency arrangements can be used for this purpose. Often buyers mistakenly believe Dual-Agency is created when buyers approach a listing agent [...]
Commentary by Jim Watkins | December 16, 2007Last year, I bought a house, rehabbed it and finally sold it. When I got a contract to sell it, the experience I endured was simply gut-wrenching. I got “sand-bagged” just about every way possible until I fought back… And WON! Here is what happened… This house was the first house deal I had done [...]
Learn Real Estate by Jim Watkins | November 8, 2007“Equity” is a word that is used a lot but in my opinion, there are a lot of people who might not understand how it can be very misleading. Having read the responses of the board veterans, I really can’t offer any insight over & above what they have said already. I wanted to relay [...]
Cool Stuff by Joshua Dorkin | January 9, 2007Those crazy guys at Flipper Nation premiered the latest episode of their web comedy. Check out: Flipper Nation: Episode 3: The Flippin’ Fight If you liked this episode, check out Episode 2!
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | November 30, 2006Since we announced the launch of our Real Estate Wiki several days ago, we’ve had quite a few new contributions. I wanted to thank everyone for helping out and I hope that we can continue to build the best and most comprehensive user-generated real estate resource online. If you’ve got anything to add to any [...]
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | November 26, 2006We’ve Just Launched the First TRUE Real Estate Wiki I’m excited to share with everyone the launch of our Real Estate Wiki – http://wiki.biggerpockets.com ! In an effort to continue to bring helpful tools and resources to the real estate community, we thought that a wiki devoted wholy to real estate would be a logical [...]
Foreclosures by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006It looks like pending foreclosures from adjustable rate mortgages are affecting lower income people more then the rich, explains Al Tompkins at Poynter Online. Tompkins looks at recent stories in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida) and Winston-Salem Journal (N.C.) which illustrate this quite clearly. Black homeownership is falling in Louisville, Kentucky according the the US [...]
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by Jim Watkins | December 16, 2007Last year, I bought a house, rehabbed it and finally sold it. When I got a contract to sell it, the experience I endured was simply gut-wrenching. I got “sand-bagged” just about every way possible until I fought back… And WON! Here is what happened… This house was the first house deal I had done [...]