Realtors
Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | January 23, 2012 
I have a lot of different types of buyers on my buyer’s list. They have come to me from a variety of different sources. Some of my best people I met at my local REIA group. I found a couple of quality rehabbers for my buyer’s list from BiggerPockets. Yet others have come from sources [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Bill & Jackie Patterson | April 22, 2011 
It often appears that real estate investors and Realtors are at odds with each other when it comes to the value and quality of services that are provided in real estate transactions. Can each of these groups conduct their businesses without the other? Sure, but can they be more successful working together? We think they [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | April 3, 2010 
Common sense and proper real estate investment training teach us to preform due diligence before entering into a purchase agreement with a seller. Good real estate investors are taught to determine Loan to Value (LTV), After Repaired Value (ARV), Repair Cost (RC) and Maximum Allowable Offer (MAO). These abbreviations, numbers and percentages allow us to assign an estimated [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Ben Roberts | November 4, 2009 
I’m a marketing director at a real estate firm. If I had to sum up what I do every day in three words it would be, “I generate leads.” It’s both much easier and much harder than you would think. Confused? Let me take you inside and show you why everyone in the real estate [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Tips by Michael Creel | January 18, 2008In the last few years I’ve noticed much of the public has lost respect for [tag]Realtors[/tag] and view them as overpaid “[tag]salespeople[/tag]” that get a lot of money for simply showing a house or two and writing up a simple contract. For some, that perception will never change simply because they see it as a [...]
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 [...]
Housing by Joshua Dorkin | October 2, 2006Pending home sales data for August was just released by the National Association of Realtors. According to the Pending Home Sales Index, “contracts signed in August, rose 4.3 percent to a level of 110.1 from a reading of 105.6 in July, but is 14.1 percent lower than August 2005.” David Lereah, chief economist of the [...]
Housing by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006The National Association of Realtors today reported that the median home price in the US fell in August to $225,000 down 1.7% from August of 2005. This is the first time a year over year decline in median home prices has occured since April 1995. According to The New York Times: “David Lereah, chief economist [...]
Commentary by Joshua Dorkin | August 27, 2006After a long day of rest, I’ve emerged from my sports cocoon to bring you my Sunday wrap up. I’d like to first congratulate Tiger Woods for his 4th straight tournament win, and I want to wish Andre Agassi good luck in the final tournament of his career. Ok . . . back to real [...]
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Why Investors need Realtors and Vice Versa
by Bill & Jackie Patterson | April 22, 2011It often appears that real estate investors and Realtors are at odds with each other when it comes to the value and quality of services that are provided in real estate transactions. Can each of these groups conduct their businesses without the other? Sure, but can they be more successful working together? We think they [...]