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Real Estate Investors: The Foundation is Set -are You?

Real Estate Investors:  The Foundation is Set -are You?   We are forming a bottom in the housing market in most areas of the United States and certainly in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Whether you listen to someone that says the markets great or the sky is falling, it’s important to observe whom it is you’re… Read more »

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Are You Leaving the Game of Real Estate Investing?

I’ve gotten a few emails/calls of late asking me, “Are you leaving Real Estate Investing?” and my immediate response is “No, why?.” “Well, you have mentioned that you just bought an internet retail business and leaving the property management business.” This is true; however, I’m also a big advocate of diversification.   You see I am… Read more »

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Rehabbing Houses: It’s All About Doing Your Homework

Rehabbing houses to sell retail is a business plain and simple. If you wholesale homes or have a rental portfolio,  do not kid yourself into thinking you know what it takes.   Yes -in the hysteria of housing boom you could overcome just about any fundamental mistake let alone move the poorest planned dogs. The game… Read more »

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The Paper Concepts of a Private Money Loan

For those considering providing a private money loan, one needs to put some basic protections in the paperwork they create when funding a loan.   You see a loan as an asset is different than a direct investment in a piece of real estate. Rather than a set of keys and the right to occupy and/or… Read more »

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Substitution of Collateral: It’s All About the Money

A few years back I had called on a fellow landlord who was known for selling off properties and providing owner financing too.   Now I knew he had problem tenants in a property but also knew the area was appreciating rather rapidly and it was in my main target neighborhood.  I wasn’t sure how long… Read more »

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2010: Part II of the Year Ahead…

State of the Real Estate Economy as of October 2009 I’ve had various thoughts for what I’d write this week…  Reflecting back I am seeing a consistent theme with those that play in the land of real estate.  Uncertainty, Fear, and somewhat worn out against a back drop of Dow 10,000, Real Estate (supposed) Guru’s… Read more »

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A New Year & More Challenges….

As some of you may know, I’ve been a Hard Money Lender in Charlotte North Carolina. Needless to say, we were running along fairly well in our local real estate markets till Wachovia Bank imploded at the end of September, 2008. Sure we were slowing down in 2007 & 2008. However, our markets were still… Read more »

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Creative Financing

Originally posted by Tyler McCracken on 1/1/2009 on www.askthelandlord.com I’ll thank T.., in her New Year’s Eve post for mentioning the need to find additional funds for a new purchase in the New Year…. a need for creative funding to make it happen… its somewhat ironic that it was mentioned and i was asked to… Read more »