Category Archives: Real Estate

Last spring, I was invited to go to Philadelphia and participate in a “real estate bubble” discussion on Ch 8’s “Money Matters Today.” Television reporters, newspapers, and media hype love scaring you to grab your attention. On the TV show, I defended the real estate market. What’s behind all this bubble talk? Before you give any substance to warnings abou......

Online marketing for Professional Realtors Building your Real Estate website with template or, custom solution. Online marketing for Realtors involves the application of many different online tools. As a professional Realtor, the decision as to which of these tools is best for you can be somewhat confusing. Here is a break down and brief explanation of some of the many options available to r......

Ever investor wants to pay as little as possible for single family rental homes. Have you ever stopped to think why you should negotiate for the lowest possible purchase price? Yes, I know every real estate guru talks about no money down or little money down as the correct approach to investing. Yes, but why? Let’s say a home you are interested in buying has a true market value of $1......

So you want to be a landlord without having the problem of repairing faulty roofs and lights? Maybe real estate investment trusts (REIT) are for you. These structures are basically legal structures to allow investors to get access to the rental proceeds via dividends. These rental proceeds are net of property management fees and other legal fees pursuant to the transaction. Developers use th......

This article is part of the Real Estate Investment Success Series and continues fromhttp://www.realestateinvestment101.info/Real_Estate_Financing.html If you ever have been a landlord for residential property, I am sure that you get complaints from tenants about leaking roofs in the middle of the night. But what keeps most people back from investing in commercial real estate is the fear of t......

This article is part of the Real Estate Investment Success Series and continues from http://www.realestateinvestment101.info/commercial_property_investment.html As mentioned in our previous article, like in value investing in stocks as made popular by Benjamin Graham, money is made in the purchase of real estate investment property. You want therefore to purchase property with good rental yi......

For several years now, the hottest industry in North America has been real estate. Homes, business facilities, and property are in increasing demand as our economy and populations grow. You can buy just about any property, anywhere, and realize appreciation in its cost within a relatively short period of time. Chances are that you or someone you know has purchased a home, then sold it severa......

The Rich Richie Indian Real Estate Why Rostow Should Feel Proud Smith would be enthused and Rostow would be proud; Investment is moving parallel to the vision of growth and in India both have meandered and joined at the sea where the withering away of investment is a dream that shall always remain a dream. This is where we usher into; this is where the ‘era of high mass consumption......

When buying a home, it is important that you order an appraisal. This is because real estate appraisers offer reports about the close estimate of a property’s true market value. When buying a mortgage, a lender will require an estimate of the property’s true market vale. This is where lenders base the amount of money to lend you. AppraisersAppraisers are licensed people that will......

Mailing real estate letters is one of the best real estate marketing strategies a new, or even veteran agent for that matter, can employ. Really, is there anything easier than mailing letters? So, it shouldn’t surprise you when I say my success as a real estate sales person was largely due to my letter writing campaigns. But success wasn’t instant. In fact, it took a year or s......