Real estate investing in the residential market has been counting on many buyers getting financing from the Federal Housing Administration also known as FHA. It is the best and only program available for first home buyers that have some credit and little money to bring as a down payment for the house. I have personally [...]

Many times I have people contacting me and offering a “fantastic deal that is perfect for my international investors”. More often than not it is simply some unsellable property that nobody would ever buy today, like an over-priced condo unit or a piece of vacant land in some war zone neighborhood. They think a foreigner [...]

There is a saying: “If you do what everybody else does, you’ll get what everybody else gets”. This is true of any market including real estate, that’s why you gain an unfair advantage by the time you become creative. The biggest “geniuses” of this market are those who have become exceptionally creative and who will [...]

I have been conducting a research on the most visited web sites for real state investors by using one of the most popular software tools for Google ranking evaluation: Market Samurai. They are invariably sites that provide a fair amount of free information for real estate investors and that have been around for some time. [...]

Recently I met a Realtor who works part time, only in the morning, because she has a regular job in the afternoon. She meets only motivated buyers that are contacting only her to show them very well targeted houses, that means one or two, that they buy in a couple of weeks paying cash. She [...]

Today I participated to my local real estate investor association meeting (you see a short video below). The consensus amongst the active investor present there are at least six strategies that are working TODAY in the current market to sell a house. Not all of them work equally well in all markets, but again real [...]

Banks and lending institutions have been at the center of the US real estate storm for the last three years and it is no wonder that many of them have gotten into trouble. What surprises me is that there is an “Unofficial Problem Bank List” that now includes 644 institutions for an aggregate assets value [...]

Warren Buffet, the billionaire entrepreneur become very famous for his foresight, recently sent his annual letter to his shareholders. This year he has a special section dedicated to real estate where is is directly involved because Berkshire Hataway Inc, his company, owns the house manufacturing company Clayton Homes. According do Buffet’s analysis, the manufactured homes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]