Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

If you’re trying to get into your first home, often the biggest obstacle is the “down payment”. You’re paying rent that exceeds a mortgage but that lump sum (even with an $8000 tax credit program these days) eludes you. If that’s the situation you find yourself in, you might consider a “Rent to Own” or [...]

If it weren’t for the Government intervention promised, the headline that reads The Foreclosure Five would signal where bargains were to be had for pennies on the dollar if you’re into real estate investing if you’re looking for “bargains” – at least in terms of what prices were a few years ago. Though the news [...]

The other day I blogged about a lawyer telling people to demand the original note. It seems that’s becoming the watchword of the day according to the article: Homeowners’ rallying cry: Produce the note Some judges “buy” the argument. Others don’t. But it’s free to try. Here’s a “how to guide” from the Consumer Warning [...]

Real Estate Developers are starting to cater to people who have to or wish to work at home as seen in this article from Canada.com They’re designed to accommodate low traffic home based businesses. The work at home office in these units has it’s own separate entrance and wash room and, best of all, is [...]

This  is from The Tennessean People who can’t obtain credit are “trading” houses. Of course there are already dozens of websites cashing in on the the trend and helping people identify possible peopl to “trade” with. According to the article, depending on your metropolitan area, there could be dozens of potential “trades”. Interestingly, this was [...]

I was talking to someone the other day who delivers pizza. He said he was thinking about getting into real estate because he noticed all the people moving in from other parts of the country who had plenty of money to buy new homes. He’s spent his life here and knows good places for people [...]

MarketWatch warns that those distressed properties might not be such a bargain. This is a helpful article… basically you need to “do the math” before you buy. One question I’d ask after reading it though is… “How do you know you’re at the bottom?” If you could predict that, you’d be a millionaire. The only [...]

Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail [...]

Many home based business people are considering getting into real estate as a part time venture now that they hear the housing market is sinking and it seems possible to “buy low” to later “sell high”. They’re wanting to do like this guy and buy mortgages at steep discounts, sell the homes at a discount [...]

Lots of people will sell you information on making money from foreclosures. This is a good article to read before you buy such information. There are alot of professionals (even traded on the stock market) as a professional market for foreclosures. That doesn’t mean there’s plenty to go around, especially now, but it does mean [...]