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Catching A Realistic Vision Of Real Estate

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Most people in real estate like to think of themselves as visionaries. We tend to have positive expectations and believe that good things will happen. We are optimistic by our very nature. These personality attributes are what make us entrepreneurs [...]

Don’t Let The Headlines Scare You Away

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I won’t belabor the point, but I will say that my clients have heard this for years; “Run the numbers, they will tell you what to do”. Still most people are willing to let someone else do their thinking for [...]

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Real Estate Ignorance In Action

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Ok, so I’m not so arrogant as to assume that I know everything there is to know about real estate investing. Not even close. There are a few simple concepts, however, that I believe anyone interested in real estate investment should know. [...]

Negative Cash Flow Should Not Mean No Deal

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Many new real estate investors fall into a trap that limits their success. They think that just because a property does not have an initial cash flow under their purchase scenario that it is not a good deal. The [...]

Prices too high to make a profitable real estate investment? Blame some appraisers!

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In a recent article by the Bureau of National Affairs (www.bna.com) some staggering information was reported. In the article we learn that over 25% of appraisers admitted to inflating approximately 50% of their appraisals! [...]

Real Estate Investment Technique; Interest Rate Arbitrage

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Usually when we discuss arbitrage we are dealing with the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices. However, in the real estate business a different form of [...]