Archive for February, 2010

Selling a home in 21 days

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 28th, 2010 under Real Estate Investing Tags: , , ,  •  9 Comments

I have just reviewed an interesting training package written for Realtors and home owners who want to speed up the sale of a property in this slow market. I found it quite interesting and I want to tell tyou about it in this post. First of all it is compiled by home owner who tried [...]

Selling commercial properties for visas

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 27th, 2010 under International Real Estate Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

Commercial real estate is going to be the next wave of massive foreclosures and that it will provide investment opportunities for international investors as well as domestic investors. The difference is that commercial real estate is more risky than residential because it is not just enough to get a very strong discount on the price, [...]

The biggest international deal

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 26th, 2010 under International Real Estate Tags: , , ,  •  1 Comment

Florida is becoming the center of serious interest from international real estate investors. Starwood Land Ventures, an international real estate investment firm, has just completed a deal with one of the major developer in the USA, Lennar, for the development of more than 2,700 home sites in 38 communities across Florida. These are land parcels [...]

Rehabbing a property for international buyers

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 25th, 2010 under International Real Estate Tags: , ,  •  2 Comments

The most complex aspect of real estate is rehabbing a property, here you can make the most profit or the most loss since you have many variables to keep under control and you depend on other people for the correct execution of the project within the time and the budget you have set aside. Although [...]

Loss leaders now also in real estate

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 24th, 2010 under Real Estate Investing Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

One interesting story comes from Riviera Beach, a Florida resort just North of West Palm Beach. It is a pretty small place built around a harbor on the Atlantic Ocean and with a very nice beach. Wikipedia reports that it “is predominantly an African American city” and “consistently has crime rates well in excess of [...]

Time to grade your Web footprint

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 23rd, 2010 under Internet Marketing Tags: , ,  •  3 Comments

How good is you Web presence? Are you really leveraging your tools to their best? What’s missing that is giving an advantage to your competition? How can you measure your progress? Are you an entrepreneur like me, who has no time to figure out complex systems to evaluate your Web presence? You don’t trust consultants [...]

Two dollars per article

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 22nd, 2010 under Internet Marketing Tags: , ,  •  2 Comments

I have was just watching the stream of messages on my Twitter account before starting to write this post and I notice a message that read: “rewrite and submit 15 articles to ezinearticles.com about our product and service…”. I am a contributor to ezinearticles and therefore I clicked on the link and I landed on [...]

They thought they could walk on water

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 21st, 2010 under International Real Estate Tags: , , ,  •  4 Comments

There is an interesting story just released by The Daily Telegraph, on its Web site. It is about the Candy brothers, two of the most famous and rich property developers in the US. These self made billionaires who live in Monaco, have created their fortune dealing with luxury homes, but this time they are losing [...]

Never doubt your “corner”, a true story in 15 rounds

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 20th, 2010 under Storytelling Tags: ,  •  2 Comments

Roberto Mazzoni, here, and today I have an incredible story to tell, that of Joe Rivera, a previous WBA welterweight world champion that has toured the whole world in the 80ies and 90ies fighting against some of the most formidable boxers and winning three championships, and now living a very frugal life, biking 37 miles [...]

What banks are still hiding

Posted by Roberto Mazzoni on February 19th, 2010 under Real Estate Investing Tags: , ,  •  1 Comment

There is still a substantial inventory of foreclosures that banks are holding off the market for various reasons. In some cases the foreclosure procedure has been stalled for over a year just to avoid the repossession and the financial consequences that it would bring. Banks are in the money business and need to show profits [...]

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