02
Apr
Housing Market 2015 – this is definitely the year of the real estate recovery. Nine years after the housing bubble reached its highest point and four years after real estate prices bottomed, we are finally seeing a steady recovery. Prices had started to sharply increase towards the end of 2013, but some areas of the country still […]
18
Feb
Online real estate is definitely the “new” way of doing business. Either you are looking for training, or creating a virtual investing platform (where all your business can be run remotely via a computer,) or for up to date training, the trend to online real estate as a creative and time-saving way of expanding your […]
14
Jan
Property search is an essential skill as an investor and the better you get at it, the more successful (and profitable) you will become. There are 2 main components to property search: how to find that ‘golden nugget’ before anyone else does and how to get these properties directly from the source. I always say that […]
11
Nov
Commercial Real Estate Investing is an ever changing and multifaceted investment medium. The same investment strategies, such as short sales, REO or buying notes, gain and lose position in the same manner that stocks or bonds gain or lose their position. For this reason as an investor, in order to thrive in this business, […]
14
Oct
Creative Real Estate Financing implies ways to fund properties by alternative means instead of the standard mortgage. These strategies could be used for long term funding (buy and hold) or short term investing (wholesaling or fix and flip.) Investors have to get creative nowadays to thrive and succeed in real estate investing. After the mortgage and […]
30
Sep
Real estate investing joint ventures are really gaining ground as a strategy to fund and expedite investments. Joint ventures are formed when two or more parties agree to pool their resources for the purpose of buying a property. When it comes to real estate investing, resources do not necessarily include only financial, but also participation in the form […]
02
Sep
MLS Real Estate (also known as Multiple Listing Service) has been around since the late 1800s, when real estate brokers decided to work in a co-operating agreement in selling properties: basically the concept was “help me sell my inventory, and I will help sell yours.” Since the public use of computers, the MLS has taken a […]
28
Aug
If you’ve ever done research on purchasing a house, it may not be a bad idea to look into buying raw land as well. There are certainly drawbacks and benefits to both choices, but if you’ve ever wanted to build a house either for yourself or to resell, then learning how to buy land instead of […]
21
Aug
What is Equity? If you’ve done any research on real estate or the housing market, you’ve probably come across the term ‘equity’ a time or two. The word equity itself can have multiple meanings across the board, depending on the scenario, but in terms of real estate the direct definition is: “The value of a […]
13
Aug
Abandoned houses can be found in any neighborhood. In fact in 2013, out of America’s 133 million housing units, 10.7% of them – that’s more than 14.2 million – were abandoned. So why are there so many abandoned housing units still causing problems for their owners? These problems mostly correlate directly to the collapse of […]