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Combine Two Properties In One Mortgage?
June 18, 2001 "My condo has appreciated greatly in value, and I am about to buy a house which will be my permanent residence. I will rent the condo. Is it possible to use my equity in the condo as the down payment on my house by combining the 2 properties into one ... more...

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Vacation Home
Vacation Home Vacation home is a seasonally occupied property that is not the primary residence of the owner. Such residences are usually found in areas with substantial opportunities for recreation or tourist activity. Vacation Home As Investment When market is ... more...

Second Home, Vacation Home
Second Home Second home is a seasonally occupied property that is not the primary residence of the owner. Such residences are usually found in areas with substantial opportunities for recreation or tourist activity. Second Home As Investment However, when market is ... more...

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Real Estate Investing - So You Want to be a Landlord!
Is landlording the way to go if you are starting into real estate investing today?Receiving cash flow from rental residuals is an exciting idea. If the rental housing is congregated in large apartments within a focused area, the costs of management and maintenance are more economical. Rentals are ... more...

What is a Bridge Loan?
A bridge loan, which can also be called a hard money loan, is a short-term loan that is used until a person or company can secure permanent financing. Basically, they "bridge" the gap between today's need for immediate cash to pay bills and the final closing of a pending investment deal or ... more...

Best Buy to Let Mortgages
Are you looking for the best buy to let mortgages with the lowest rates payable? Need to calculate repayments on-line? Not sure how much you can borrow? These are all questions that you may well be asking yourself if you are looking for the best buy to let mortgages.Finding the right buy to let ... more...

Commercially Viable Commercial Mortgages
Commercial mortgages are similar to residential mortgages. Usually taken by businesses, commercial mortgages are secured against business property.Businesses have to make an important decision regarding the premises where the operations are to be carried. It is a buy or rent decision. By acquiring ... more...

Free Real Estate Investing Course
So you know you have what it takes to make a healthy living in the investment real estate market but you dont know where to get started? This FREE real estate investing course will show you the process used by some of the biggest names in the industry and how they got started in the industry ( you ... more...

So You are Unemployed and Want to Become a Real Estate Investor Right Now
These techniques should work in any country, city or area. The trick is to simply find the real deals. Let me tell you the quickest way you could start making money in real estate right away.Call all the We buy houses classified ads and signs you see around your area and tell them that you are ... more...

How I made $122,000 and lost $132,000 - A lesson in Assets vs Liabilities
This is a true story from my own experience that illustrates how buying assets for wealth creation works.Just over 3 years ago I found myself with $75,000 to spend or invest. My wife and I needed a new car as the old one was 8 years old and not as reliable as it used to be, so we spent $40,000 on ... more...

Industrial Income Property Financing: Part 3 of 3
Financial ConcernsOf the three types of income property, industrial property requires the greatest degree of technical expertise and experience. Likewise, financing the acquisition of an industrial income property can be, at best, very risky without adequate planning and know-how.The first thing to ... more...

Real Estate Investing - Makeovers vs. Flipping
Please dont call it "flipping."Some real estate investors who practice the technique of buying property for immediate fixup and resale call it "flipping houses." I have never liked this term, for it strikes me as reference to a gimmick. It seems "flippant!" It sounds like crude tagging of a very ... more...

How To Become a Mortgage Broker
The mortgage industry accounted for $1,815,949,279,000 in loan transactions in 2004. That's one trillion, eight hundred and fifteen billion, nine hundred and forty-nine million, two hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars... in one year!Mortgage brokers average better than 1% commission on every ... more...

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