There are men, and women, whom I know who own dozens or hundreds of rental units. Single family to multi-family these habits are pretty much the same. Often it is the “getting started” which is the most difficult. To overcome that you really should attend my Real Estate Investor’s 123 Quick Start – it has [...]

Okay, stop right there. If I write, “this is the way to make money in real estate in 2009″ I just omitted dozens if not hundreds of other methods. So let me be very un-guruish and say some people will build immediate wealth in real estate investing in 2009 and others will try it once [...]

I do not know the man who compiled this report but I do know, and have some respect, for the man who put it in his email reports. This is from an email list people pay very good money to receive and gives advice to investors. Fortunately all of the advice is not bad advice [...]

Be optimist or pessimist the numbers do not lie. What do the numbers say about the US real estate market in the last two years? Dismal, at best. John Burns, CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, always gives grades in quick glimpse -and easy to comprehend- A, B, C, D, and F like most [...]

I have touched or been touched by real estate investments since 1973. Let me not bore you with the last 36 years. One of my great pleasures and privildges is to teach in the John Adams Real Estate Investor’s Institute at Emory University. In fact I really need to make that known to the powers [...]

Yes, foreclosed properties or properties that are currently in foreclosure (short sales) may be purchased with IRA funds. Either cash or the non-recourse type of loan may be used to purchase real estate. For the IRA loan the property will need to be in move-in condition or be purchased for cash from your IRA, rehabbed [...]