Activities are picking up in these two sectors and the response has been encouraging.

Even if you could afford all cash down so you have no mortgage, you still are left with taxes, utilities, management, maintenance, vacancy loss, and the list of expenses goes on and on.

Make sure this will be enough to afford that new A/C unit next summer ;) (my luck, the AC would go out in the winter, go figure.lol)-if the property is any decent size, maybe 1ac+, i would look for the following: wetalnds/ floodplain, utilities, buildible terrain, etc.

City utilities, or not?

My father and I have been investing in real estate for many years now.He's now just retiring and I'm going to try and pick up where he left off.I own a custom home electronics company out here and I just love everything about real estate.We do all the high end electronic toys that most people dream of.

Okay declaring my own country might be hard but if anyone has played cashflow 101 you pick a dream before you start haha.

The firemen who responded said when they picked up the body, he exploded all over the floor.

The basic numbers I see are usually:Purchase Price- price you pay for the propertySelling Price - amount you will sell the property for (not necessarily what you will list it for)Holding Costs- monthly payments, insurance, utilities, points paid upfrontRE Agent Commission - agent's commission on the sale of the property (commission on the purchase of the property is considered paid by the seller)Rehab costs - total expenses used in rehabbing the property from lawn, paint, permits, property inspection, contractors, supplies, etc.Profit - the amount you must make to take the dealIf you take the selling price and first subtract the purchase price, then subtract the expenses (holding costs, agent commission, rehab) you should have your Profit amount.

hi everyone - if I could pick your expert brains, I'd really appreciate it cuz I am getting mighty frustrated trying to buy an REO property in WI.

Real estate investing strategies are so numerous it's hard to "pick" one.the problem with "picking" a real estate investment strategy is they're not like mutual funds. to be a real estate investor, you've got think like a businessman. a businessman or entrepreneur, is a control freak - they want to figure everything out and have the satisfaction of control.real estate investment strategies do not match the modern-day "investor"...people with 401k's who "pick" a portfolio are not investors. heck, the portfolio managers are not entrepreneurs, they're employees of a HUGE company and they manage these gigantic funds with so many different companies, it's no wonder there's no money in mutual funds.real estate investment strategies involve looking at CASH FLOW.