Real estate books are a mixed batch. There are those that I recommend, such as Eldred and McLean’s excellent Investing in Real Estate, now in it’s fifth edition. On the other end of the spectrum is Robert Kiyosaki’s bestselling fable Rich Dad Poor Dad, a dangerous and misleading book if ever there was one.
Real Estate can make us rich. Don’t ask it to make us happy as well.
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Having practically doubled in value during the past six years and going, real estate is over half way towards notching up its best decade ever. Market capitalism, the engine that moves real estate, seems to be doing its job well. But is it? Once upon a time that job was generally agreed to be to make people better off. Nowadays, this is not so clear. A number of real estate consumers backed, somehow, by an increasing number of analysts think that real estate ought to be doing something else: making people happy.
The view that real estate should be about more than just money has been widely held in Europe for decades.
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The oil policy of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation.___________________________________________
“The world is leaving one epoch, the ‘Cold War,’ and entering a new one. We have buried the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea” [Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Malta, December 1989].
Who stands to gain the most from the destabilization of oil prices?
Ten years ago Russia was in a state of disarray reminiscent of the Seventeenth Century. Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, had secured re-election in 1996 only by turning the privatization of the Russian energy sector into a sleazy scam, trading oil and gas fields for campaign contributions. Meanwhile, ordinary Russians had to endure rampant inflation and unemployment. As former Soviet
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Once being a ”newbie” real estate investor myself, I know how valuable hearing advice directly from a real person actually using the strategy is to the education process.
Josh Houghton, from the Real Life Real Estate Blog (which we reviewed a little while back) was nice enough to share a bit of his real life experience and expertise in purchasing real estate “Subject To” with us.
We hope to make guest posts from actual real estate investors on the ground doing this everyday a regular thing on this blog. Afterall, the best way to learn something is to learn it from someone who is actually doing it… and doing it successfully.
Once being a ”newbie” real estate investor myself, I know how valuable hearing advice directly from a real person actually using the strategy is to the education process.
Josh Houghton, from the Real Life Real Estate Blog (which we reviewed a little while back) was nice enough to share a bit of his real life experience and expertise in purchasing real estate “Subject To” with us.
We hope to make guest posts from actual real estate investors on the ground doing this everyday a regular thing on this blog. Afterall, the best way to learn something is to learn it from someone who is actually doing it… and doing it successfully.
So… you’ve done your time in the city…the big smoke as we Aussie’s call it, and you’re looking for the next step. Well, one of the biggest catch phrases around, along with the one of the most popular Australian real estate investment moves these days is the “sea change”.
The term “Sea Change” came about a few years back, giving a bankable “tag” to the thousands of people that each week move to coastal towns along the perimeter of this beautiful land. While it mainly refers to the older generation, younger investors are flocking to the beaches, east and west, north and south.
Ah, it seems like it was just yesterday when A&E TV was premiering Flip This House and the TLC Channel was launching Flip That House. Notice these were two different shows – I guess targeting two separate target audiences who were interested in either this hosue or that house. Free markets bring choice to the consumer, ain’t America grand?
Well now that the housing market is starting to slow in some regions flipping is starting to lose its shine. Perhaps one of the most telling pieces of evidence that the pendulum is starting to swing is that allegations of fraud are starting to pop up even in the sanitized, staged world of reality TV. One Flip This House participant evidently didn’t even own the properties that he allegedly was flipping for big bucks. If you can’t believe what you see on reality TV then whom can you trust these days?
Here we go!
Part two of our Real Estate Blog review series.
This next blog is one of the real estate investing blogs with a high Google PageRank… so it is a pretty popular site. Worth checking into.
Hi all,
Sorry I didn’t get this to you earlier.
Here is the July 2007 real estate market indicators and health of the overall market as reported by John Burns Real Estate Consulting.
Enjoy…
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Economic Growth…………………………………………………………………..C
Wage gains accompanied by a steady job market are helping the consumer as well as the overall U.S. economy move forward from what turned out to be the slowest quarterly GDP expansion rate (0.7%), in more than four years. In addition, year-over-year retail sales and personal income both increased during the month of May, while core inflation moderated, providing the framework for moderate growth in overall economic expansion during Q2-2007.
You may remember a couple months back, we wrote part 1 on “How to start a real estate investing company“… well, part 2 is ready.
In part 1 we go over creating your business name and deciding on which business entity is right for your company. If you haven’t yet read part one, click below to head over to that post first, then come back to part 2 to get caught up.
Part 1: How to start a real estate investing company
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Part 2: How to start a real estate investing company - Filing the paperwork with the state
