November 19th, 2009
I’m just arriving back from the National Association of REALTORS Annual Conference in San Diego where I moderated a panel on Distressed Assets where the esteemed panel and most of the audience agreed that today reflects THE investment opportunity of most of our adult lives. Thinking I was going to hop in my car and drive home, as usual, took an unexpected turn, as my car was “dead on arrival.” So as I sit here in the vestibule at Newark Airport at 1:30 a.m. waiting for assistance, I started checking my e-mails and found yet more evidence that the millionaires of tomorrow are being born today, those who get off the fence and invest.
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November 13th, 2009
Seventeen metro areas in the much-watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes saw price increases from July to August, according to Standard & Poor’s.
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November 6th, 2009
[Note: In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we talked about keeping your real estate healthy. In Part 3, we highlighted ways to keep you and your family healthy should relocation enter your lives. Now, in art 4, we offer some tips on protecting your investment from fire.]
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October 27th, 2009
[Note: In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we talked about keeping your real estate healthy. In Part 3, we look at ways to keep you and your family healthy should relocation enter your lives.]
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October 23rd, 2009
Today’s market, simply put, is a GREAT time to invest in real estate if you are blessed with having cash, IRA funds, or 1031 exchange funds that need a home. The best buying real estate market of a lifetime.
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October 13th, 2009
Part 1 of this post focused on the first three principles of healthy housing: dry, clean and ventilated. In Part 2 to help create healthier real estate environments we focus on the final four principles: contaminant-free, pest-free, safe, and maintained.
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October 5th, 2009
Since I began writing this blog, I have tried to present knowledge, most acquired from the very best and brightest in residential and commercial real estate, to help you invest “well” – to stay away from the pitfalls, lures and general untenable promises and claims. This post focuses on new research to help you keep your real estate – and its inhabitants – living “well.”
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September 29th, 2009
For 100 years plus, the REALTOR association on the national, state and local levels has protected the rights of real estate consumers to buy, own and transfer real estate. In fact, its work is emulated globally and many from around the world work with REALTOR leaders to learn about how real estate is transferred here in the U.S. Today, the Association is working to extend the first time home buyer tax credit. Why are they lobbying hard to make this happen?
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September 22nd, 2009
“Do not be scared of notes. They are one of the best opportunities today,” so said Scott Bleazard, Sr. Vice President of Kingston Management Services LLC, a successful bidder of FDIC distressed assets on my radio show at Income Property Investment Talk dot com. He urged, “Don’t let your mind be your biggest hurdle in this investment.
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September 18th, 2009
According to recent research from ForeclosureListings.com, there have been decreases in the number of foreclosure filings in each state and increases in prices in many of those same states. That’s the good news, or is it? Well, it is good news for homeowners but yet another reason for real estate investors searching for a good deal to get ‘off the fence.’ These numbers, coupled with my other blog posts from experts and surveys completed by industry groups over the last few months, the time is now to gobble up deeply discounted assets like mortgage notes, REOs and land, whether for home ownership, vacation home, or as an investment. Read the rest of this entry “
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