The Foreclosure Process
The foreclosure process isnt as mysterious as it may seem. Due to federal and state laws, lenders must follow a specific process in order to foreclose on a property. Understanding the process will help you find investment opportunities.First, youll need to understand when a lender is allowed to ... more...

Was That House A Good Investment? The Answer May Not Be So Obvious
I am surprised how many people dont know the difference between enterprise value, which is the sales price of a home (debt plus equity), and equity value, which is what is left at the end of the day when you sell your home and pay off the mortgage. In determining whether this was a good investment ... more...

Real Estate Investment - When, What and Where?
Like economy and stock market, real estate often runs in cycles of approximately 7-10 years. The value of real estate often goes up for a few years, tops out, keeps flat or goes down for 2-3 years. The availability of low interest rate mortgage and recovery of economy will eventually jump-start a ... more...

Commercial Real Estate Industry - Is the Condo Craze Over, or Just Gaining Steam
Over the last two years there has been so much condo activity that many commercial real estate lenders are starting to express concern over the future stability of condo markets. Some lenders have recently found themselves over allocated in condominiums as a result of the recent activity and have ... more...

Can You Calculate Complex Financial Calculations?
Are you a whiz at calculating financial information? Not the easy personal stuff, like figuring out your monthly mortgage based on a fixed interest rate for x number of years, or how much money you have available each month after all your bills are paid. (You can probably use your fingers to ... more...

1031 Exchange Tax Deferred Benefits Are Hard to Ignore
OVERVIEWSection 1031 in allows you to exchange like-kind investment properties without triggering the payment of capital gains tax. As your property assets appreciate in value you have the ability to upgrade into larger properties with greater cash flow. Section 1031 also gives you the ... more...

The Power of a Home Equity Loan to Pay Down Debt
Households across the country are finding themselves in a similar situation. They lack the financial funds to make the necessary changes to their home and need to find a way to fund upgrades and eliminate debt. A popular way of financing these changes without killing themselves is by taking a home ... more...

Tips on Apartment Building and Multi Family Property Loans
Real estate investment has become an extremely popular way for people to try to make money. Owning an apartment or multi family housing unit can be a way to wealth, however, real estate investing requires a lot of time, knowledge and up-front capital.Apartment building loans are often offered on ... more...

What to Look for in a Real Estate Agent
Real Estate Agents play an essential, critical role in the process of buying and selling a home. You just simply cannot afford to work with an agent that does not exhibit top-scale professional values. Were talking about your primary investment, and the happiness of you and your loved ones.Here ... more...

Real Estate Clubs Hot Among Investors
Six or seven years ago, the stock market was booming, Internet companies that no one had ever heard of were valued at billions of dollars, and anyone and everyone was investing their money in tech stocks. Then, in 2000, the stock market crashed, the Internet companies closed their doors, investors ... more...

How To Find Your Dream Home In Belize
Shopping for property in Belize is not as simple an undertaking as you might initially expect!Firstly, estate agents as we know them are non existent! Real estate brokers that do exist are likely to be unlicensed, unregulated and certainly not trained or insured.Secondly, the majority (and I mean ... more...

How a 1031 Exchange Works
A section 1031 tax deferral allows an investor to sell a property, then reinvest the proceeds in a new property and defer all capital gain taxes. Specific conditions for the exchange state that it must be of like-kind and must take place within 45 days of the close of the sale. To understand more ... more...

Real Estate News
Happy New Year, Make it a better world. "Pay it Forward" as in the movie. If you haven't seen it, do!Welcome,Basically, almost everyone wants to buy a house and honestly everyone of legal age and competent mind can if they have the will and knowledge. Sure you can buy all the get rich schemes on ... more...

A Singles Game of Real Estate
This discussion leans toward answering questions asked most often by our youthful men and women in there early twenties. They often begin to ask themselves the question, Should I consider buying a home, condo/town-home or some other type of real estate that I can call my own? Due to the fact that ... more...