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Lou Barnes investors financial weekly blog with economic advice for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ weekly economic advice blog for real estate investors

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Mortgage and long-term rates are still near their lows -- reassuring, considering everything else has lost its marbles. Or perhaps bonds are doing well because everything else is nuts... a fair proposition to which we’ll return. Aged about 12 I got to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey ...
Professor Leonard Baron on should you buy a rental property for your college student

Should you buy a rental home for your college student?

| Leonard Baron | Article, Topics
Many issues come along with owning a student rental and you should really think them through before you get a tough and expense college lesson of your own Many parents who are interested in real estate investing might consider buying a property for their child to live in during college ...
Home price gains continue to slow in latest Case-Shiller Home Price report

Home prices continue slow down through August

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Data through August 2014, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices continue to show a deceleration in home price gains. The 10-City Composite gained 5.5% year-over-year and the 20-City 5.6%, both down from the 6.7% reported for July. The National Index gained 5.1% annually ...
Emerging trends in real estate survey lists top 5 cities for real estate investors for 2015 with Texas cities topping the list

Texas wins in the top markets to watch in 2015 for real estate investors

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A new survey, looking at the top locations for real estate investment prospects in 2015, has Texas cities topping the list, according to 1,000 leading real estate experts, investors, fund managers, developers, property companies, lenders, brokers, advisers, and consultants who participated in the study. According to  Emerging Trends in Real ...
Kimberly Smith on how to manage tenants who eat and smoke marijuana in your rentals

How to manage tenants who eat and smoke marijuana in your rentals

| Kimberly Smith | Article, Topics
As most of you know I live and work as a real estate broker in Colorado, and everyone asks about marijuana. Our first course of action, after recreational use was legalized, was to amend our leases to make sure the no-smoking-clause also included a no-smoking marijuana clause. The reality is, ...
Engelo Rumora blog on 4 key traits every genuine real estate company should possess

4 key traits every genuine real estate investing company should possess

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
There are many different real estate investing companies that offer a variety of products and services, such as turnkey operators, wholesalers, commercial brokers, property managers, etc. Some of these companies may even promise skyrocket rates of return. I have witnessed on numerous occasions investors who are solely focused on purchasing ...
Larry Arth's real estate investor advice about 5 discoveries that changed the way I invest in real estate

5 discoveries changed the way I invest

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Every investor has some successes, and boy do they like to share them. You can learn a lot from these successes. And, if they are tried and true, by all means you want to duplicate them. However, I believe far more valuable lessons come from mistakes that are made. If ...
Lou Barnes investors financial weekly blog with economic advice for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ economic advice to real estate investors: Mortgages easier now?

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Financial markets have stopped their hysterics for now, so let’s get some other things straight. Things about mortgages and other credit. Simple things. FDR’s first fireside chat in 1933 was devoted to simple explanations of banking. The next day Will Rogers said the president’s words were so simple that, “Even ...
Tight credit supply for borrowers will be fixed, Watt says

Tight credit supply for borrowers will be fixed, Watt says

| Editorial Staff | Article | Market & Trends
Mel Watt, federal housing financing agency director, said in a speech Monday that Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and lenders had reached an agreement in principle that could expand access to mortgages for many Americans which is good news for real estate investors. Meanwhile mortgage data and analytics firm RiskSpan  ...
Kevin Guz on 5 mistakes I will never repeat as a real estate investorrate executive to a real estate investment business owner

5 mistakes I will never repeat as a real estate investor

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
Boy, I tell you, I have done a lot of deals and made a lot of mistakes as a real estate investor. It is hard to pick the first one I will never repeat. In my world you win some and you learn some. Real Estate Investor Mistake No. 1 ...
Larry Arth's real estate investor insights- How I created a great real estate investment deal when the property was not even for sale

How I created a great deal from a property that was not even for sale

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
I was having a conversation with an investor friend of mine who had shared with me that he was selling off his smaller duplexes and doing 1031 tax-deferred exchange into larger multi-unit properties. I knew his portfolio well, as we have had many conversations in the past. So I asked ...
Lou Barnes investors financial weekly blog with economic advice for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ weekly economic advice for real estate investors

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Wow. What was that all about? For one thing, not the U.S. economy. Another thing not about: mortgage rates, just about back where they were before the stock market circus. Take it one piece at a time.... Pay as little attention as possible to the stock market. It enjoyed a ...
Larry Arth's real estate investor advice-- 5 ways to improve cash flow on your rental properties

5 ways to improve cash flow on your rental properties

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
The timing was perfect. Just as I was preparing to make an offer to buy a fourplex, I overheard my wife, who does business turnaround consulting, talking to her client about the SIBKIS rule for making decisions. When I asked her what the rule she was always preaching meant, she ...
Engelo Rumora blog on 3 top ways to maximize return on your investment property and keep tenants paying

3 ways to keep tenants paying and maximize your return on investment property

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
Every investment comes with some degree of risk. Typically, the bigger the risk, the greater the return, but what if you were to simply reduce the risk on the front end of every investment by doing three simple things? Now, I can’t guarantee this will work on the stock market, ...
Lou Barnes investors financial weekly column on the economy for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ weekly economic advice for real estate investors

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
The financial world is back on a familiar precipice: a giant global-regional economy is on a cusp, all waiting to see if its government will intervene. This time it ain’t us -- it’s Europe, again -- the shockwaves for the moment beneficial to the U.S. Mortgages are on their 2014 ...
Dear Monty answers your real estate investing questions and tenant and landlord questions

What makes a good landlord? 10 tips to avoid complaints from your tenants

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
Reader Question: Monty, My husband and I own about 75 units in 25 plus buildings. He has a good day job and I manage the apartments. We have been expanding slowly for over 20 years. This is not easy work. Over the years we have had tenants occasionally complain about ...
Student loan debt may prevent young people from getting mortgages or investing in real estate

High student loan debt stopping some young people from real estate purchases

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A new study shows that high student loan debt is stopping many young people from buying houses or investing in real estate as more than 50% of those ages 20 to 29 have student loan debt averaging more than $25,000,  indicating they may continue to have to rent housing for ...
Larry Arth's investor insights- 5 things the real estate gurus never tell you

5 things real estate “gurus” never tell you

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
I remember sitting at my desk catching up on some paperwork on a rainy summer afternoon when a gentleman named Patrick walked into my office and said he wanted to learn everything I could share with him about buying real estate investment property. We had a chuckle as we both ...
RJ Palano buying real estate investment houses at auction in atlanta

Buying houses at auction: This is exactly what I do

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
 There is nothing like the adrenaline rush of buying houses at auction. It’s comparable to sky diving and spear fishing, with one exception: You can make a nice living and make a lot of money with a well-conceived plan of acquiring houses to flip and to hold. As promised, I ...
Lou Barnes investors financial weekly column on the economy for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ weekly blog: Deflation and helping real estate investors understand trends

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
At the end of a strange week last week with lots of fresh data, two things stand out: mortgage and long-term rates stayed low, and market movements were magnified by mass escape from wrong-side trades. On the surface the U.S. data is strong. September payrolls jumped 248,000 jobs, plus another ...
Larry Arth's real estate investor advice- moving from single-family to multi-family real estate investing

5 things to remember in moving from single-family to multifamily real estate investing

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
I was recently at a real estate investors club meeting (REIA) where the proverbial debate- single-family versus multifamily investing-once again-underway. Investors have strong opinions about this topic. It sometimes gets downright brutal. It is a debate I heard many times early in my investing career and I was also perplexed ...
Engelo Rumora blog on 3 top Facebook groups for real estate investors

3 top Facebook groups for real estate investors

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
When Gary Vaynerchuk, author and CEO of Vaynermedia, a social media marketing agency, started his journey as an entrepreneur he found a very successful way of building his brand and establishing genuine business relationships. His secret was keeping very active across all social media platforms. He would literally spend day ...
RJ Palano buying real estate investment houses at auction

Two tips to follow if you are buying investment property at auction

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
Some of the best real estate opportunities come by way of auction.  These can be mortgage foreclosure auctions, government auctions or in general online auctions like Auction.com or RealtyBid.com. However, you must exercise care before entering into any agreements or signing anything and have your price points determined prior to ...
Lou Barnes investors financial weekly column on the economy for real estate investors

Lou Barnes’ weekly blog: Helping real estate investors understand mortgage and economic trends

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Long-term mortgage rates have stabilized, mortgages just under 4.50%, but markets are rattled and it’s hard to tell exactly who or what is doing the shaking. The Fed has everybody uneasy, simultaneously saying it may raise the cost of money faster than markets think, but is not in a hurry, ...
Home equity from Corelogic showing fewer underwater homes

Almost two million homes gained equity and emerged from “underwater” in the last year

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
 A new analysis shows nearly 950,000 homes returned to positive equity in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of mortgaged residential properties with equity in the U.S. to more than 44 million, according to a release from CoreLogic on PRNewswire.Nationwide, borrower equity increased year over year by ...
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