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Buying a house "subject to the mortgage" could be a home run deal blog by RJ Palano in his series Art of the Deal for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

Buying a house “subject to the mortgage” could be a home run deal

| Think Realty | Article | Investment Strategy, Operations
How would you like to come up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, with two outs and with the go-ahead run on third? Every young baseball player imagines being in that position, or in a position to win the World Series. It’s like that in the real ...
how one couple chose to invest $1 million in cash blog by Larry Arth for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

How one couple chose to invest $1 million in cash

| Larry Arth | Article | Funding, Operations
The couple was a farming family from just outside the city limits and had received an offer to purchase their land from a single-family-home developer. They had called ahead and wanted to sit down with me to discuss how to best invest their million-dollar windfall. As a real estate investment ...
How one couple chose to invest $1 million in cash by Larry Arth for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

How one couple chose to invest $1 million in cash

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
The couple was a farming family from just outside the city limits and had received an offer to purchase their land from a single-family-home developer. They had called ahead and wanted to sit down with me to discuss how to best invest their million-dollar windfall. As a real estate investment ...
Buying a house 'subject to" - the art of the deal blog by RJ Palano for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

Buying a house “subject to the mortgage” could be a home run deal

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
How would you like to come up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, with two outs and with the go-ahead run on third? Every young baseball player imagines being in that position, or in a position to win the World Series. It’s like that in the real ...
Is a condo a good purchase for a first-time real estate investment property - The weekend real estate investor

Is a condo a good first rental property investment?

| Kevin Guz | Article | Investment Strategy, Operations
There are many, many condos out there. As an investor here in Dallas with HomeVestors, I believe they are a viable option for any investor to consider, not only here in Dallas, but across the U.S., but they do have some unique aspects that the investor must consider and understand ...
Is a condo a good first rental property investment?

Is a condo a good first rental property investment?

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
There are many, many condos out there. As an investor here in Dallas with HomeVestors, I believe they are a viable option for any investor to consider, not only here in Dallas, but across the U.S., but they do have some unique aspects that the investor must consider and understand ...
The list of uncertainties

Lou Barnes’ analysis: The uncertainty list that is driving the economy right now

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Long-term rates have stabilized, maybe a bit better than that, the 10-year T-note Friday breaking below 2.31% resistance, but mortgages still above 4.00%. Rates have jumped a half-percent in sixty days and were due for a breather, but all should expect outsize volatility ahead -- true upping and downing. Since ...
Bank repossessions fuel foreclosures to the highest level in 19 months as people continue to lose their homes says Daren Blomquist of RealtyTrac

Foreclosure filings by banks jump to a 19-month high

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Foreclosure filings were reported on 126,868 U.S. properties in May 2015, up one percent from the previous month but up 16 percent from a year ago to a 19-month high, according to a new report from RealtyTrac. The U.S. foreclosure rate in May was one in every 1,041 housing units ...
Stan Humphries, chief economist for Zillow, says more low-end homes will come on the market in 2015.

Logjam at the low end of the housing market is caused by negative equity that is too deep

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
While the U.S. negative equity rate is dropping,  more than four million homeowners still owe the bank at least 20 percent more than their homes were worth, according to a release of the latest report from Zillow real estate research. "It's great news that the level of negative equity is ...
How to use the investor "3 step" to build wealth blog by Larry Arth for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

How to use the investor “3 step” to build wealth

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
I received an interesting call some time back from a real estate investor who was vacationing here in sunny Florida. Knowing I lived in Florida, he asked how far I was from Clearwater beach and if it was possible to meet for coffee? I never turn away a reason to go ...
3 steps to prepare your property for the rental market

3 steps to prepare your property for the rental market

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
I’ve learned many lessons in my real estate investing career through “the school of hard knocks,” and by sharing them, I hope I can save you some time and headaches as you purchase your first property and prepare it for tenants. Even if you already have a rental property, these ...
urban infill study for real estate investors by Pete Reeb, John Burns Real Estate Consulting

High-density detached urban infill is a booming real estate business so what are the challenges?

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
By Pete Reeb John Burns Real Estate Consulting Our urban infill feasibility business is booming, thanks to a confluence of trends that are creating heightened interest in high-density single-family detached urban infill housing deals: Gas expense. Uncertainty over gas prices and a growing desire for shorter commutes Time savings. Re-prioritizing ...
Lou Barnes

Mortgage rate increases may be an overreaction and not a sustained swoop-up

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Long-term mortgage rates have run up again, now to levels of last fall: mortgages are close to 4.25%, the 10-year T-note cresting Wednesday just under 2.50%. Friday, 2.36%. Possibly fatal stubbornness, but I think most of this up-lurch is a correction from overreaction last winter, not the threshold of a ...
5 secrets to successful buy to rent real estate investing by Lori Greymont

Buy-to-Rent Series: 5 secrets to successful buy-to-rent real estate investing

| Editorial Staff | Article, Topics
By Lori Greymont When I first started investing, I was taught to buy real estate is about three things: location, location and location, and not the advantages of buy-to-rent But over the years, I have learned there are other criteria just as important and often more important than location when ...
how to evaluate if a buy and hold real estate investing strategy is right for you

Buy-to-Rent Series: How to evaluate a buy-to-rent strategy that is right for you

| Editorial Staff | Article, Topics
By Brad Sumrok Some of the top questions to ask when evaluating what type of buy-to-rent strategy fits best for you and some of the answers that may be helpful to your strategy: How to evaluate if a buy-to-rent strategy is right for you Q. Does single-family housing or multifamily ...
is a buy to rent strategy right for your self-directed IRA

Buy-to-Rent Series: Is buy-to-rent real estate investing a good self-directed IRA investment?

| Editorial Staff | Article | Topics
By Tom Anderson Investor James Mann was frustrated with the lack of appreciation in the stock market and decided it was time for a different approach. So he took a rollover IRA from a former employer and put it into a self-directed IRA to buy something “I could see and ...
is buy to rent better than buy to flip

Buy-to-Rent Series: Is buy-to-rent better than buy-to-flip?

| Editorial Staff | Article, Topics
By Mark Bloom An investor is better off, over any medium- to long-term investment horizon, to hold a real estate asset as a rental rather than flipping or selling that asset, so long as the following are in place: The ability to obtain credit and withstand outlays for occasional, non-reoccurring ...
Zombie foreclosures down overall but still up in half of the metro areas surveyed says Daren Blomquist of RealtyTrac

Zombie foreclosures down overall, but still up from a year ago in half of U.S. metros

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A new report shows that in the second quarter of this year there were that 127,021 homes actively in the foreclosure process had been vacated by the homeowners prior to a completed foreclosure, called zombie foreclosures, representing 24 percent of all active foreclosures, according to RealtyTrac. These owner-vacated foreclosure properties ...
Why you cannot quit after one rental property blog by Kevin Guz for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

Why you cannot quit after just one rental property

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
I bought my first rental property more than 10 years ago, as we have discussed before. I was a part-time investor—or, in my case, a “lunch hour” investor. I was very excited, and I made the leap, and I purchased that first property successfully. But here’s what you are going ...
7 things if only I knew...or they don't tell you where the problems lie blog by Larry Arth for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

7 things if only I knew…what they don’t tell you is where the problems lie

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
What they don’t tell you is where problems lie Have you ever evaluated an investment property and were very excited about the purchase? Everything looks great on paper. The property looks good and talk of “hurry, before it is gone” prompts you to make an uneducated decision. I hope you ...
Where is one to invest in this market real estate investor question of the week for Richard 'Monty" Montgomery for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

Is shadow inventory a problem for real estate investors?

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
Reader Question of the Week: Where is one to invest in this market inclusive of the banks shadow inventory? A good example is Clarksville, Tennessee which appears to be an excellent opportunity, however if you consider Housing and Urban Development (HUD) unoccupied housing information, it paints a very different picture Monty's ...
What the kitchen faucet taught me about how to keep great tenants

What the kitchen faucet taught me about how to keep great tenants

| John Triplett | Article, Topics
As a small investor focused primarily on single-family home investing, I stay very close to my business and the issues that come up with the tenants. From time to time in this blog, I will share a story or two from my business and tenant relationships that I hope might ...
The jump in rates continues up, and with it economic confusion writes Lou Barnes in his blog this week for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

The jump in interest rates continues up, and with it, deepening economic confusion

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Last week I thought the rise in long-term interest rates was overdone and had a chance to reverse. Oops. The jump in rates has continued, and with it deepening confusion. In just six weeks, the 10-year T-note has moved from 1.90% to 2.40% , mortgages from 3.75% close to 4.25%. News media ...
Down payment averages drop to 14 percent on new home purchases RealtyTrac report says

Down payment average for home purchases drops to 14.8 percent, a three-year low

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The average down payment for single family homes, condos and townhomes purchased in the first quarter was 14.8 percent of the purchase price, down from 15.2 percent in the previous quarter and down from 15.5 percent a year ago to the lowest level since the first quarter of 2012, according ...
My success in real estate is due to copying the right cat writes Engelo Rumora in his blog for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

My success in real estate is due to copying the right cat

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
G’day, everyone! It’s your favorite Australian and The Real Estate Dingo, bringing you another great blog about the KEY strategy that I used when I first started out in real estate and that I continue using to this day. As many of you may know, I’m a huge believer in working ...
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