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.

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you who have sat through one of my Spokesperson Training seminars, you know I am a big proponent of “3’s,” that as ...

One of the things that I spent a lot of time on at my recent Investor Discovery Day Event was the change of investment models. ...

By now, you have heard, read or listened to the “buzz” around the ‘investment opportunity of a lifetime:’ the potential to purchase FDIC distressed assets. ...

I am hearing from quite a few of our members about the losses that they have taken on many of their investments.  Actually some of ...

Some of you that have been around me for years know of this story but many of your have not been with me for years, ...

One of the most asked questions I have had over the last few months has to do with raising rents.  Many owners are wanting to ...

Despite media reports and expert commentary to the contrary, the federal government is trying to stabilize the nation’s capital markets. Its approach has been to ...

"Darin, if you are going to invest your money make sure your investment is working as hard as it can, every day.  Our time is ...

Many investors are looking to jump into the world of commercial real estate after having success on the residential side, but don't have experience, knowledge, ...

It may sound hard to believe, but, when it comes to where and what kind of apartment or commercial property you should be looking at ...

Whether it be challenging financial and economic times, like today, or the ‘best of times’ in real estate, predicting potential trends and marketplace returns is ...

Abandoned Houses are one of, if not the most overlooked, yet profitable niches in residential real estate investing. These days, people are abandoning their houses ...

Whenever I hear about "the real estate market" on the news I hear all kinds of interesting predictions. Prognostications abound in the news industry these ...

Up until recently, REO properties were somewhat of a waste of time. The banks simply weren't willing to negotiate. It hadn't gotten "bad enough". However, the ...

My daughters both play soccer on traveling teams. They are solid players. Neither one is Ronaldinho, Renaldo or Messi, but they both are integral parts ...

I am wondering if you are going to participate in something that it seems most everyone else has chosen to participate in. Before ...

One of the things that I like to do is see what other apartment property owners are doing not only in terms of having good ...

Unless you have been living in a lead cave OR have not been seeing or reading anything that I have been doing over the last ...

I mentioned the results of not doing a good job by really taking a look at and analyzing your financial statement. The worst thing ...

I just finished a transaction that made the buyer a lot of money. The bottom line is the buyer bought the property and made ...

When you sit down and analyze successful folks, in this case successful investors, you usually come up with the usual ones like: