by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
People who have always put their money in blue-chip stocks, bonds, and money-market accounts commonly think of real estate as being an inherently risky investment. While real estate can be risky, you can certainly limit that risk by educating yourself.My experience...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Many people start out in real estate investing with great fervor, only to become discouraged after a few months when they don’t attain instant fortune. They discover they can’t get rich quickly and easily, so they move on to the next scheme. These...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
(June 2007) Question: Ray, what factors indicate the climate, good or bad, for investing in mobile home parks? In my view, the worst that can happen for mobile home parks has already occurred: Low rates and easy money for traditional housing An industry-wide meltdown...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The day has come when savvy entrepreneurs, investors, rehabbers, FSBOs, Realtors, and other real property owners have come to the realization that they can sell their properties faster by offering owner financing and still get to a cash position. The advent and...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
In Part One, Riding the “Paper” Tiger: The Subprime Disaster, I left off with a discussion of the current marketplace and the role subprime lending is playing. In Part Two, let’s explore how your knowledge of recent history–and what is going on...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The so-called day after “hangover” from the fast and loose lending spree that helped fuel the real estate boom during the first half of this decade keeps getting worse, with a continued fall out among lenders who catered to high-risk (or...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
As I write this in the spring of 2007, the real estate market is in the throes of yet another of its recurrent downward cycles. Consequently, a frequent question we get these days is: “How is the latest meltdown in the subprime lending industry affecting the...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
In my workshop, I teach that there are at least nine different ways you can do a deal with poor or bad credit. Now before I give them to you, I want you to know that I’m really supportive of learning deal structuring. The first thing you need to do is...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
“Do not try this at home . . .” There’s a reason those guys on television ask you to not do the things you see them attempt to do. They’re risky or downright dangerous, and for a novice to do whatever it is they’re doing on the screen is...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 20, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Real estate and housing markets across the nation are changing. You can hardly turn on the national news without hearing a story on how home prices are peaking–or even declining. Homes are taking longer to sell. The spread between asking prices and selling...
