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How To Use The Internet To Perform Due Diligence On Real Property

Thomas J. Lucier — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:03:47 +0000

As far as I'm concerned, the Internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time, and ranks right up there with flush toilets, sliced bread and basketball! For real estate investors, the Internet is the single best property due diligence research tool available. Especially for investors who are located in counties where property tax rolls are online. [...] Related posts:

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How to Negotiate the Best Deal for Yourself

Thomas J. Lucier — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:41:35 +0000

To me, real estate negotiations are about two things and two things only: Price and terms. And that’s why your objective during negotiations, should always be to obtain a purchase or sale price and terms, which will give you the best possible deal. By “best possible deal,” I mean a price and terms that an [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

2011 Real Estate Market Expected to Show Some Improvement

Dennis Norman — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:09:47 +0000

Ah, it is so much fun to be able to write something positive about the real estate market!

According to an economic outlook report just issued by Fannie Mae, our country’s economy should “kick into higher gear” by the second quarter of 2011. This positive outlook is the result of improvements in consumer spending, consumer [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Buyers of distressed properties in third quarter reaped largest discount in five years

Dennis Norman — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:10:02 +0000

According to a report released by RealtyTrac, foreclosure homes accounted for 25 percent of all U.S. residential sales in the third quarter of 2010 and that the average sales price of properties that sold while in some stage of foreclosure was more than 32 percent below the average sales price of properties not in [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Owning real estate within an IRA

Jay Peroni — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:32:31 +0000

Can I own real estate within my IRA?

With investment property priced to move, some IRA owners are buying actual real estate properties. Did you know you could do that? Most people don’t. Not everyone can do it; not everyone should do it. However, some people are doing it – particularly high net worth IRA [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Fannie Mae expands first look initiative; Investors must wait 15 days to buy foreclosure

Dennis Norman — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:18:20 +0000

Dennis Norman

Fannie Mae announced this week that it is expanding the Freddie Mac First Look Initiative so any home shopper can buy a HomeSteps® home as their primary residence during the first 15 days of the property’s listing without competition from investors. HomeSteps is the real estate sales unit of Freddie Mac and [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

10 Quick Ways to Find Motivated Sellers

Shae Bynes — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:53:18 +0000

Shae Bynes, GoodFaithInvesting

Happy Tuesday folks! Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. This week we’ll be doing a bit of follow up with leads from our calls last week, so I’m looking to have some great updates soon. In the meantime, one of my new blog readers Britanny (Hi Britanny!) asked a great question which prompted [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Private Money Momentum

Shae Bynes — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:22:57 +0000

Shae Bynes, GoodFaithInvesting.Com

It’s really interesting how much more confidence you have when you’ve already done something successfully. It seems that I’m finding it even easier to talk to people about opportunities to invest with us now that we’ve secured our first private lender. In fact, it looks like we have a second potential [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Private Money and Self-directed IRAs

Shae Bynes — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:05:01 +0000

Shae Bynes, GoodFaithInvesting.Com

Happy Friday everyone! Can I just tell you that I am simply floored (almost overwhelmed) by all of the support, encouragement, and advice I received the past couple days from my post about leaving my nearly 11-year career in corporate America? You all are so awesome – thank you!

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Record Short Sales and Foreclosures Here to Stay

Dennis Norman — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:17:35 +0000

Over 11 million homeowners in the US have Negative Equity

Dennis Norman

According to a report released by First American CoreLogic estimating that the typical U.S. homeowner whis is currently in a negative equity position will not see positive equity in their homes until late 2015 to 2016. Furthermore, in some depressed markets, the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.