Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

As the sub prime mortgage debacle unwinds with talk of soaring mortgage rates and government bail outs, the reality is that the real estate cycle is kicking in. It looks like the next few months will produce a “buyer’s market” as homes go into foreclosure and banks desperate to unload unprofitable properties will make some [...]

Leaving the rat race and moving someplace more livable to run your home based business on the internet? It’s a wonderful idea… lots of people are leaving high priced real estate zones, taking the equity, moving to smaller towns buying an equally big house and putting the balance in savings to get them established in [...]

Here is a great idea for geographical post card marketing that someone sent me today. Some businesses operate by targeting a neighborhood again and again because, odds are, someone there will be in the market to buy another home, move, do home maintenance, etc. Real estate agents call this “farming”. But mortgage brokers do it [...]

As every real estate wannabe knows, “flipping” home is supposed to be one of the tried and true techniques of the business. This report from Reuters blames “investors” and “scammers” for the demise of a once nice neighborhood. “Flipping” though is traditionally though just taking a property bought at discount, sprucing it up and selling [...]

ABC News had a good interview with a mortgage broker. His exact words to his real estate agent clients were “The party is over”. Last year, people were getting 100% mortgages on $600,000 and $700,000 homes even when they couldn’t prove they had any assets or income to guarantee repayment of the loan. If the [...]

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If you’ve been monitoring the financial news, you’ve seen headlines about foreclosure’s being up.  Here’s one about a major southern state… one in every 123 households was in foreclosure! This means that people with money to invest – liquidity – are moving to buy properties that have potential for the future at what they consider [...]

He’s the world’s most hated blogger according to the Sydney Morning Herald. He had tried to make it big in real estate by “flipping homes” and getting fraudulent loans. Now the young Californian is $2.2 million in debt and trying to monetize his blog traffic and notoriety to get on with life in Sydney after [...]

Do you market mortgage loans for a living? Are you tired of “living” or “dying” because of interest rate fluctuations? Are you tired of people stealing your business by quoting a lower rate you know is bogus? There are ways to solve these problems through positioning yourself as an expert instead of another interest rate [...]

Do you need a professional real estate agent to sell your house? The answer to that question has important ramifications for people pursuing real estate as a home based business. According to CNN/Money  Economists conducted a study on whether paying for a real estate agent was worth the money, when having to pay 5 or [...]