Home Buying Checklist – Windows
If you are in the market to purchase a home, it can be easy to fall in love at first sight. Do so at your own risk. While the overall appearance of a home is important, the quality is in the details. In this article, I provide a checklist of window issues you should consider when v...
Real Estate Appraisal - Do Your Own
For single family homes, there are two basic methods used in real estate appraisal. They are replacement cost analysis, and using comparable sales. A third appraisal method, based on capitalization, is used for income properties, and is covered in another article. In figur...
12 Tips for Buying Waterfront Real Estate
You probably already know this, but buying any land can be a significant decision. But what you may not know is that there are a few twists that come with purchasing a waterfront lot that make it very different from buying a lot in any old subdivision. I've put together a few tips...
Getting Pre-approved For a Loan
For a first time home buyer, you are taking on a monumental task, undoubtedly the largest task you will ever venture upon, financially speaking that is. Unfortunately, most of us don't have huge sums of money sitting around in our bank accounts to go out and pay for a house in ...
5 Ingredients of a postcard
5 INGREDIENTS OF A POSTCARD One of the most useful tools to market to motivated sellers is postcards. You can effectively market to out-of-town owners with this technique because they can keep the postcard for months. However, most investors are still confused about what ...
Bulgarian Property Investment
Bulgarian Real Estate Bulgaria property investment prices are by far lower than most other destinations in Europe but the estimated acceptance of Bulgaria in the European Union provides extremely high growth potential that will certainly boost the prices of the Bulgaria pr...
Castle Blueprint Layout - Are Popular
Castle style homes are becoming very popular among people who have large families or who want to live in grand style. There truly are companies that have a castle blueprint layout for building castles that look like those you've seen in movies and storybooks. These castle homes a...
Buying Rental Property Safely
Be careful when buying rental property. We stayed at a motel for a week one winter. The bill showed twice what it should have, but since I already paid the correct amount in cash, I thought nothing of it. When we noticed that the lobby and swimming pool were unheated, we thought it...
Real Estate Investor Question: Rehab and Sell, or Rehab and Keep?
Here's another awesome question I received from my discussion board. The question; Why bother keeping property after it's rehabbed? Why not sell it after the rehab and GET PAID! Of course, the first questions that you must answer is how emergent is your need for quick ca...
Real Estate Timing - when to buy, sell, hold
When is the best time to buy real estate? When buying real estate for investment, smart money does not buy at, or near, the top of the market. Smart money buys real estate at, or near, the bottom of the market. Historically, real estate often runs in cycles of approximate...
Castle Blueprint Layout - Are Popular
Castle style homes are becoming very popular among people who have large families or who want to live in grand style. There truly are companies that have a castle blueprint layout for building castles that look like those you've seen in movies and storybooks. These castle homes a...
How to Buy a Holiday Home Abroad
The thought of owning a second home in the sun or a ski lodge or mountain retreat where we can escape whenever the mood takes us is of course a commonly held dream. And with the simplification of re-mortgaging facilities, the affordability of home loans and the growth in...
Selling or renting a property on Internet Real Estate Portals.
There are many ways to sell own property or to find clients to rent its, we could assign this job to a rental agency or to a real estate agency, but we could by an high fee for this! One another solution could be to signalize our property to classifieds newspapers,...
A Smarter Way To Invest
Statistics show that nearly 95% of our fellow citizens will retire at or below the poverty line by the age of 65. These people will be dependant on friends, family and the Federal Government for financial support. If ours is the land of opportunity, why does t...
Fix And Flip - A Real Estate Formula
Making money with a "fix and flip" property is a great way to make money in real estate. However, it isn't about repairing drywall and planting flowers. It's all about how you do the numbers. People often buy and sell a fixer-upper without a definite plan. They buy a house...