by Jim Ingersoll | Oct 1, 2012 | Finding Buyers, Motivated Sellers, Real Estate Investor Resources
Real estate investors should always focus on effective marketing. Marketing to find motivated sellers, marketing to find great tenants, marketing to build a wholesale buyers list, marketing for private lenders, and marketing to sell houses. Your marketing effort needs...
by Diane Kennedy, CPA | Sep 26, 2012 | Real Estate Tax Strategies
In this article, we’re going to talk about some details of one of the real estate professional deduction requirements. The issue is something called the material participation test. According to the material participation rules, you must spend 500 hours or more in...
by Diane Kennedy, CPA | Sep 25, 2012 | Real Estate Tax Strategies
One of the hottest real estate tax strategies is the Real Estate Professional. The IRS is on to this one, though, so make sure you follow the rules. If your income is over $150,000, you can not take advantage of your real estate passive losses unless you are a...
by J.P. Vaughan | Sep 22, 2012 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Hot Real Estate Investment News. New this week: Home builders are more confident than they have been in six years. August existing home sales rose 7.8 percent. Home inventory dipped 29.7...
by Josh Caldwell | Sep 18, 2012 | Miscellaneous
I’ve seen a lot of novice real estate investors fail. Most of them fail to get started and never get out of the gate because they allow fear to stop them from trying. This is perfectly normal. But now is the time to stop worrying and get out there. Real estate...
by J.P. Vaughan | Sep 15, 2012 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Hot Real Estate Investment News. New this week: Sales are up, mortgage performance is improving and prices are improving. Foreclosure starts in August decreased 13 percent from year...
by J.P. Vaughan | Sep 11, 2012 | Creative Real Estate Investing, Miscellaneous
Things have been pretty scary in the real estate market since 2008. On that, most can agree. But no matter how bad they’ve gotten, some of us still consider ourselves very lucky, especially when considering the 12 Bizarre but True Real Estate Horror Stories...
by J.P. Vaughan | Sep 8, 2012 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Hot Real Estate Investment News. New this week: The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed positive annual growth The number of completed foreclosures saw declines both monthly...
by Jim Ingersoll | Sep 5, 2012 | Apartments, Buy and Hold, Real Estate Investing Strategies
Do you remember the Clint Eastwood western movie, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”? Renting to Section 8 tenants is pretty much the same. Some landlords love Section 8, and some landlords try it and find it’s bad and ugly to deal with. What is Section 8 Section...
by Josh Caldwell | Aug 28, 2012 | Motivated Sellers, Real Estate Investing Strategies
I get a lot of questions about marketing on the internet. After all, the online market is massive no matter what product we are talking about. Web-based marketing is good, but for real estate you need to get your message out to your local area. I know what I’m...
