Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

I’ve mentioned the Penturbia theory before… it’s an attempt to predict where the next boom counties will be. As I look at the book, my rural county is NOT supposed to “boom” but because we have low property taxes and no state income tax, our Local Chamber of Commerce receives 2 to 3 calls per [...]

Apartment Owners are no longer just looking to build and buy local apartments according to Real Estate Journal. Instead they’re looking high and low – or across the country to be more exact – for bargains. Landlords in California, for instance, are moving torrents of money into Arizona, Nevada, Texas and other states. Many Californians [...]

According to this commentary, if you’re in online business you need to realize that Google isn’t the king of click through rates. While Google gets the most volume, some specific areas like Real Estate may be getting better click throughs and more leads generated on Yahoo and MSN.  You need to make sure that you [...]

Could you make a living helping people with lousy credit get homes? Mark Hopkinson did. He got tired of cruching numbers as a bank analyst and wanted to go into real estate. He chose the niche of helping people with bad credit because his mother in law had lost a home to a mortgage foreclosure. He looks for [...]

W. J. Mencarow ‘s ezine predicts a boom in the note business and distressed properties both of which are attractive to folks hoping to work from home. Here’s his reasoning… I believe we are on the verge of a terrific profit opportunity in notes and real estate. As everyone knows, interest rates have bottomed for [...]

From the Creative Real Estate Forum John: Inflation, and health costs are the two big “unknowns” in retire planning. For this reason, I did not count on a fixed percent (5%) for a certain target fund amount ($1,000,000). I watched my dad and his contemporaries plan for retirement, and in the late 1960′s, when some [...]

The IRS has clarified the rules about non profit organizations offering “tax favored” assistance to low income folks needing assistance with buying a home. While this seemed like a useful and legal tool for helping sell stalled real estate, clarifications have been issued which might kill things all together. If you’re in real estate investing, [...]

From the Daily Reckoning Ezine April 10,2006 “Home is where the fraud is,” reads a recent headline on CNNMoney. Everything in nature matures, ages, degrades, degenerates, and deflates – even a real estate bubble. Near the end, the parasites, swindlers, and scammers are in the news. When the tech bubble blew up, for example, the [...]

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From Real Estate Journal Every real-estate investor is a gambler. And over the past few years, just about anyone who bought a single-family home on either coast, where prices have been appreciating at double-digit rates, has been a winner. But single-family homes aren’t likely to keep appreciating at such a blistering pace. Prices of both [...]