by Rick Tobin | Aug 6, 2013 | Miscellaneous
In spite of a tough job market, rising consumer goods prices, challenging mortgage loan underwriting guidelines, and numerous trillion dollar bailouts, home prices have been improving quite well across the nation. What happens if and when mortgage loan underwriting...
by J.P. Vaughan | Aug 3, 2013 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Real Estate Investing News This Week. This week’s real estate news is short but sweet: Home prices are up 10.2 percent, rising to their highest level in almost 5 years. Foreclosure...
by Phil Pustejovsky | Jul 29, 2013 | Miscellaneous
You may be overpaying in property taxes without knowing it. Property taxes are based on the value assessed by the local Tax Assessor and, in the aftermath of the biggest real estate collapse in recent history, it’s entirely possible that the current assessed...
by Jim Ingersoll | Jul 23, 2013 | Foreclosures/Short Sales, Real Estate Investing Strategies
Is all this positive real estate news actually good for investors? Prices are going up, houses are selling faster, and foreclosures are becoming harder to buy. Less distressed housing inventory brings the next challenge for real estate investors–finding and...
by J.P. Vaughan | Jul 20, 2013 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Real Estate Investing News This Week. Here are the real estate news highlights: According to a recent report by RealtyTrac, Single-family home flipping is on the rise and profits are...
by Rick Tobin | Jul 16, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Mortgage interest rates are moving higher in spite of a sluggish U.S. economy. The 30-year fixed rate recently increased the most in one week since mid-April 1987. Freddie Mac reported that the average national Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) reached near 4.5% as compared...
by J.P. Vaughan | Jul 13, 2013 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Real Estate Investing News This Week. We have lots of interesting real estate news for you. Foreclosure activity is down 14 percent, foreclosure inventory is down 29 percent, the...
by Jim Ingersoll | Jul 8, 2013 | Miscellaneous, Real Estate Investing Strategies
“We don’t need to keep score, let’s just have fun today.” That is exactly what my wife, Cheryl, said when we went golfing recently. She always has fun putt-putt golfing, but neither of us wanted to carry that score card and sharp pencil around for...
by J.P. Vaughan | Jun 29, 2013 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Real Estate Investing News This Week. We have lots of very good real estate news this week. Highlights include: The Case-Shiller Indices Post Record Monthly Gains Over One-Third of...
by Al Aiello, CPA, MS Taxation | Jun 25, 2013 | Asset Protection, Real Estate Investor Resources, Real Estate Tax Strategies
Asset protection is more important now than ever before because there are 82,000 lawsuits filed DAILY with real estate being a BIG target. There are numerous vehicles to protect you – LLCs, trusts, insurance – including combinations of these. Equity Stripping...
