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Can The Internet Be Your Agent?

The number of consumers that go online each year to research at least a portion of a new home search is steadily growing year after year. As the internet gains an even bigger foothold in the United States, its use is likely to steadily grow and accomplish much of that growth in unexpected areas. One of those areas has been the selling of property online...


Picking Out The Perfect New Town

Moving to a new city or state will always be a difficult transition, no matter what kinds of precautions you take. Bundling up all of your worldly possessions into one big van and setting them down on the doorstep of a new home in a strange city will always be at least a bit of an awkward experience. However, picking the right city can be the difference between struggling mightily and simply working through the transition...


Five Real Estate Investment Tips

There are countless tips on real estate investing available and this is by no means intended as a comprehensive list. While every investment has its own intricacies and problems that need to be worked out, there are some very basic aspects that are common to most investment properties...


Keep Your Cool on Undervalued Homes

The best possible scenario for a real estate investor is to find a home that is undervalued to be able to then turn around and sell it for a profit. Obviously, this can be a difficult prospect as real estate markets becoming increasingly clogged with willing investors, but what happens we you do find a possible target? How do you evaluate its viability? The real answer: keep your cool...


The Successful Investor: Not What You Think

While much has been done to crush the misconception, many still believe that to be a successful real estate investor, you must either have a lot of money or find some one-in-a-million opportunity. That is plainly not true and while it may certainly turn out that making money through investing comes easier as wealth increases, all wealth has to start somewhere and the real estate investing arena is no different...


Are You A Short Term Investor?

The world of real estate investing can certainly seem like a vast one full of many different types of projects and opportunities. That can certainly be true, but by asking yourself the key question of what kind of investor you want to be, you can cut through a lot of that material and focus on the activity that you will not only benefit most from, but will enjoy the most as well...


Age From The Buyer’s Perspective

From your perspective, your home has grown with you over time, standing with you through all of the major milestones in your life and evolving with your own lifestyle. That evolution might be seen through the changes in the interior design of your home. It might be seen in a new addition or new renovation to the property...


The World of Zero Down Investing

Zero down investing has been one of the big buzz words recently in the real estate investment industry and while there are many things positive about such a situation for a real estate investor, there are also some bits of information that need to be cleared up for anyone interested...


Your Framework for Real Estate Investment Success

Every real estate investor has gone through the process of getting that first investment opportunity and then running with it to make a profit. While every situation is different and there are probably thousands of examples on initial investment deals, every investor has at least some part of an investment foundation they draw from...


The Method Of Your Move

In the United States, many consumers are more than happy to pay for convenience. That can mean getting a bag of chips at a gas station or picking up some candy at the checkout, and indeed some people feel that way about moving. For an expensive premium, major moving companies will pack, move and unpack your goods to take the hassle completely out of what can be a draining moving experience...


Your Real Estate Double Agent

Choosing a real estate agent is perhaps one of the most critical parts of the real estate process as that agent will become your closest ally in the long term effort to buy or sell a home. Real estate transactions are major milestones in a person’s life and that real estate agent is the key person to be involved in making sure your wants and needs are met throughout that process...


Student Loans & Mortgages: Owning Real Estate In Your 20s

No more than ever before, people in their 20s are looking into owning real estate. As mortgage payments have increasingly been the domain of younger and younger people, questions have arisen over the true benefit of owning a home at a young age and just what type of person should do so. Certainly, owning real estate at a young age is not for everyone and there are some things to keep in mind when considering the possibility...


Foster Successful Investing Habits

The essence of success is achieving a long period of prosperity through your actions. In real estate investment properties, that kind of success can be fostered through committing some habits to your investment routine, using them to continually work towards new opportunities and new investments...


The Story Behind Real Estate Growth

There are times when the growth of the real estate industry has drawn the nervous energy of local or national media expecting a downfall after a period of prolonged growth. There are some serious flaws in the logic behind expecting a burst in the real estate bubble nationally and during any period of prolonged growth, you as a real estate investor should not panic in the expectation that a market fall will ruin your investment...


Know Your Investment Type

With the decision to get involved in real estate investing, so too comes an avalanche of information that must be deciphered before you can truly get started with your investment proceedings. To go along with the myriad of ways to finance real estate and the thousands of potential properties out there, so too exist a variety of different types of properties to get involved with, all with pros and cons...


Hunting Down Your Investment

After making the decision to become involved in Real estate investing, the next step is hunting down the perfect project for you, one that will both net profit and hold your interest. No matter if it’s your first investment deal or your 50th, locating the right project is the most important part of the process and while things like profit and loss come later, nothing can happen until you locate the property that will get you on your way...


Are Foreclosures Worth The Risk?

Many home buyers and real estate investors have been prompted by steadily increasing interest rates to be more aggressive in their hunt for bargain homes. Competition for the best-priced and most attractive homes has only increased in most real estate markets and because of that intensity, foreclosures are drawing more and more interest from prospective home buyers and investors...


Do Your Moving Insurance Homework

Packing up all of your worldly possessions can be a daunting task. Hours of packing, taping, moving and storing can leave you drained and dreading the trip across the country or across the city to your new home. After all of the expended energy, seeing damage to your goods along the way could have the real ability to push you over the edge. As a way to protect yourself, moving insurance can be a great way to take some of the sting out of potential troubles along the way...


Assemble Your Investment Team

In sports, the way a team works together to achieve a common goal can mean the difference between success and failure. Much has been made, and rightfully so, about team chemistry in professional sports and your real estate investment goals can benefit from the same kind of solid teamwork. As you delve deeper into real estate investment, the people you work with will go a long way towards increasing your profitability...


The Art of Negotiation

Feeling comfortable with a real estate transaction is the easiest way to ensure that you have a positive experience, whether it be as buyer or seller. Knowing what is going on and taking an active role in the proceedings o f your real estate transaction will give you the piece of mind necessary to erase some of the worry and doubt inherent to any real estate deal...


When Real Estate Lawyers Become Useful

Getting involved in a real estate transaction is truly a milestone in a person’s life, a process that takes thousands of dollars and sometimes months to complete. With something so complicated, there is certainly some merit to involving a lawyer in the proceedings...


Why Cheap Homes Are Cheap

When items are discounted at the grocery store, there’s always a reason. Maybe the bread is a little bit stale or the item has been discontinued. Before buying any discount produce, you should probably understand why it is being discounted. The same is true for homes and while there are many cheap homes on the market, learning why that real estate is selling for such a low price will go a long way towards telling you just how worth your effort that property may be...


Too Many Real Estate Investing Chefs

The prospect of investing in a real estate opportunity is an extremely attractive one with the kind of publicity that those types of ventures garner today. Everything from flipping houses to land management has been trumpeted as a great way to make money and in certain cases, that’s true. However, for most of us, it takes a little help to get real estate investment dreams off of the ground and with that help sometimes comes unwanted pressure and undue problems that eat away at enthusiasm for a project...


Hunting Down The Perfect House

When the time finally comes to make a move to a new home, families can often times be on one hand extremely excited about the prospect of shopping for a home and on the other hand be unsure as to how to start the process. There are a few important steps that should be taken in any home-buying process to ensure a smooth real estate transaction...


The Guide For First-Time Home Buyers

Buying a first new home is a big step in anyone’s life and the process can initially seem like an extremely daunting task. With all of the information available, advice to be learned from and realtors to choose from, it can certainly seem like an insurmountable mountain of information...


Securing The Right Title Insurance

Title insurance has become an accepted part of most real estate transactions, giving lenders some security in regards to claims against a particular property that they may be insuring. Title insurance companies offer that security and your realtor may have a favorite entity that she or he tries to steer you towards during your real estate transaction...


Researching Your Investment Property

Getting involved with an investment of any kind is a significant business operation and one that should not be entered into lightly by any means. By going through an extensive set of information before ever signing your name on the dotted line, you can avoid some of the pitfalls that are awaiting investors on some projects. There will always be unforeseen circumstances encountered on any business deal and purchasing an investment property is no different...


The Deal Is In The Details

No two real estate agreements are the same, the result of the infinite amount of twists and turns any purchase agreement can take. The intricacies of your own property will be unique to you but there are some common themes that can be applied to a purchase agreement to ensure that both buyer and seller are protected...


Where To Put Your Money

As in many aspects of life, the key to real estate investing can be location, location, location. While real estate is perhaps more complicated than hoping for foot traffic at a restaurant with a prime location, location does certainly play a part in the possible viability of a rental property. There are a few things you can look for in the area of your possible real estate investment that can tell you some important things about the possible long-term health of your potential investment...


Can You Handle Real Estate Investment?

Investing in real estate is something that is more accessible than people think. There are certainly a number of things to consider when deciding whether investing in real estate is for you, but there are also some myths that might discourage you from even exploring the possibility. Debunking these myths in your own mind could put you on the road towards real estate investment opportunities that before you simply assumed were not within reach...


The Right Rental Property

Deciding to get involved with investing in a rental property is an important decision and finding the right property for your efforts can make the difference between a profitable, successful career in rental properties and a discouraging experience that leaves you unwilling to continue on. No matter if you are looking at a rental property purchase for the first time or the 50th time, there are some key things to consider when searching out a good deal...


How Motivated Is Your Seller?

When purchase prices for homes escalate into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes a $10,000 difference in an offer price can seem like a small variation, but $10,000 is $10,000. As you go through the process of making mortgage payments, you will no doubt wish you could shave a few months off of your payment term, which is exactly what shaving $10,000 or more will net you...


Are Bridge Loans Coming Back?

Bridge loans have been a bit of a dirty word in real estate circles amid what has been an excellent real estate decade. However, if the slow down that has taken hold in other parts of the country should make its way to your town, discussion about the viability of bridge loans will no doubt increase...


Adding Another Home To The Fold

We’ve all thought about how nice it would be to own a second home that could be used as a vacation home or retirement location. With that daydream comes the reality that a second home is a luxury that not everyone can afford but for those that seriously consider the prospect, a few financial bits of information can mean the difference between a single home and a vacation home on the coast...


When To Buy, When To Rent

The line between buying and renting can often be a fine one for people just starting out and wondering which is right for them. The benefits of buying and the attractive prospect of having equity in a home often weigh against the less restrictive nature of renting and the deferred responsibility of home repairs through renting. Making the decision can depend on a variety of factors, but perhaps biggest among them are the general real estate appreciation seen in the area and the time you plan to be in the property...


When To Call In The Inspection Professional

Though home inspections are often part of the home buying process that is not the only time you may look to the abilities of a professional inspector for your needs. When making large additions to your home or trying to put your home on the market with accurate information about the state of things like your roof or furnace, professional inspectors can also offer their services...


The Non-Mortgage Mortgage Calculator

There are a variety of mortgage calculators widely available on the Internet and through other sources that can tell a consumer everything from the type of house that can be purchased or the size of payments that can be expected. However, these mortgage calculators do not have to strictly come into play when a home is the large purchase being wrapped into a mortgage...


The Right Mortgage Insurance For You

Taking out a mortgage can be an expensive prospect. Over the course of your payment schedule, you will be tasked with paying back both the principal loan amount and the interest on top of that. Add to that the fact that you are designed to do so for 30 years, typically, and the cost adds up to a sum you’d probably not want to think about...


Investors Must Keep Their Balance Early On

There is a great amount of value in learning by experience in most walks of life. For infants that are unsure how to walk, those first few steps are all the impetus they need to learn how to walk. There is no handy guide that an infant reads before learning to walk and no amount of coaching can prepare an infant well enough that they are ready to walk at a moment’s notice...


Manage The Speed Of Your Investment Career

Early investors suffer from a lack of experience in real estate investing and that lack of experience can often lead to problems that become discouraging at the onset of an investment career. Just as it is important to balance the amount of knowledge and experience you take into the real estate investment industry, it is also important to manage the speed of your investment efforts, especially early on...


When To Use A New Construction Company’s Lender

For some reason, many home buyers see buying a newly constructed home as an entirely separate kind of real estate transaction where the traditional rules don’t apply and everything is as simple as buying a loaf of bread at the store. Sadly, that is not the case and more and more consumers are finding out that a new construction home is every bit as complicated as a resale...


Chop Away At Your Property Tax

Everyone loves a deal that will save them money on their income taxes, whether it is a credit of some kind, rebate to turn in or other incentive that will cut money off of the cash they have to pay the government. Refund checks are almost revered in this country because of the impression that they are almost like free money that was never expected to come back...


The City/Property Connection

Buying a new home is an exciting prospect that consists of purchasing not just a place to live but in some cases a whole new way of life. A fresh lawn, a new place to call home, all of it comes with a home purchase. However, the purchase entails more than just building materials and pavement...


One Level Deeper: More Questions For Your Agent Search

Interviewing a real estate agent can be a time consuming process. Your desire to get the best agent possible might lead you through a few phone calls, a handful of interviews and a decision in the end that makes you feel like you’re only doing your best to make a decision you’re sure could be wrong in the end...


Pre-Qualified vs. Pre-Approved

It is becoming more and more common amongst potential home buyers to pursue the most efficient route possible to a brand new home. Instead of going through the process of scouting out a neighborhood or collecting flyers, intelligent buyers are instead making a lender their first stop...


Pick The Right Real Estate Attorney

For many buyers and sellers, a real estate agent is all that is needed to get through the buying or selling real estate process. A real estate agent can provide valuable advice on the current state of the market, the best way to stage your home for sale or good areas to look at when investigating a home purchase...


Comparative Market Analysis

Home pricing is the most important factor to consider in order to sell your home quickly and easily. The usual mistake the seller's make is that their asking price is way too high. You cannot fool the market. It is best to price your home right because if you overprice it and it stays in the market for a long time, buyers will lose interest, thinking that it has not sold because something is wrong with it, or other homes in your area similar to yours may be selling at a more realistic...


Real Estate Vocabulary ~ Who Are The Players

When beginning a new venture, there is always a new language to learn. In real estate knowing the right language can be the difference between making good choices, and having serious problems down the road. To help buyers and sellers get on the right track, here are a few key words so you, too, can tell the different between real estate personnel...