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real estate Investing Made Easy In the past few years, real estate has seen an unprecedented level of foreclosures on both residential and commercial properties. Banks are desperate to be rid of these bank owned properties, and many commercial owners feel the same way. Making commercial short sales is a great way to fill these needs and make a bit of profit while you're at it. Karen Hanover explains how. Understanding Bank Short Sales The first thing to understand is what exactly commercial short sales are, and why they happen. The common story of a short sale goes as follows: a property owner ...
Real Estate and Social Responsibility
The recent Great Recession highlighted the interdependency of the U.S. social structure to the real estate industry. As the real estate market froze to a standing halt, so did the whole U.S. economy. Government officials and regulators should have expected such results as real estate employed more Americans than any other sector. Prior to the Great Recession, 60% of U.S. assets were tied to real estate. This occurred due the free market philosophy entrenched within the U.S. economic foundations. Real properties are mortgaged to pay for sales or to enable owners to access their equity. Mortgages are bundled and divided up ...
Being A Good Landlord Is Harder Than It May Appear
When buying a house or apartment with the intention of letting it out to tenants, you may well have in mind one thing only – that day every month when the money transfers into your account and, for the privilege of letting people live in a property you own, you make a profit. However, if you are the landlord of a rented property, life is very rarely that simple. It is not necessarily a bad life at all, but it pays to be realistic at these times. If you are prepared for what you will face, it is always much ...
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Time Doesn’t Stop When You’re Renovating
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Pouring Your Money Into A Black Hole
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One Man’s Misfortune Is Another Man’s Opportunity
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Being A Good Landlord Is Harder Than It May Appear
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Buying To Rent – How To Make Sure It Works
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The Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Most of us have heard someone – often our parents, but probably more often a character in a TV show – describing another individual as being “from the wrong side of the tracks”. It is one we hear, and repeat, without necessarily giving any thought to what it means. We as humans, have a tendency to do that – but what does it mean? Well, to... [Read more of this article]
Location, Location, Location!
There is a common mantra among real estate professionals and investors which is simply the word “location” repeated three times. The thinking behind this is that, when it comes to making money in the world of real estate, the most important thing is where the property is located. The second most important thing is, also, where the property is located.... [Read more of this article]
You Can Do It Right, Or Cheap, Or Quickly…
The importance of turning a maximum profit in a minimum time frame is as important in real estate as it is in just about any other sector of the business world. And of course, when you create a profit margin this makes for three immediate variables. How quickly can you do something, how much must you spend and how few mistakes can you make while doing... [Read more of this article]
Spreading Your Wings – Buying Real Estate Overseas
For the ambitious real estate investor, one of the most interesting ventures can be the purchase of an overseas property. There are many of us who would like to one day retire overseas, and even quite a few of us who would like to move abroad while we are still some way away from retiring. If we are adaptable individuals, perhaps with one or two foreign... [Read more of this article]
Knowing When To Cut Your Losses
Buying and selling real estate is one way to guarantee an interesting business career – but it is not without its drawbacks. One of those drawbacks, the significant risk factor, is part of what makes it interesting. But if you can play the game well, you need never become one of the many people who falls under the intense pressure of trying to turn... [Read more of this article]
Commercial Real Estate – How It Changes Things
Buying real estate is always loaded with questions and variables, and it takes a confident and decisive individual to get it right and make a profit. It can be an even more vexed question for those who are looking to buy commercial real estate. When you are buying and selling a house, the important issue is that you do enough to the property in order... [Read more of this article]
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