Real Estate Blog
They Shoot Journalists, Don't They?
The Creating Wealth Show includes the story below in its entirety from Fox News. Apparently, some enlightened bakers in California believe it is, in fact, okay to shoot the messenger and hope the message will go away.
A jury convicted the leader of a financially troubled community group of three murders,...
The Future of Home Ownership
We spend a lot of time with this blog extolling the very real virtues of investing in income properties rather than the stock market. That's all well and good but what about the people who don't want to tackle property investing and only want to be able to buy a home at some point in the future? Will...
4 Reasons Behind the Continuing Home Price Collapse
Despite the current administration's constant hyperactive dog-and-pony show, we at The Creating Wealth Show think they protesteth just a bit too much. If the economy is turning around, why are home prices still flat on the ground and getting kicked in the teeth? If you listen only to President Obama,...
Sweet Justice in Foreclosure Reversal
Some stories are simply too good not to share with our loyal readers, such as the recent case in Naples, Florida, where a couple who were wrongfully foreclosed upon managed to legally turn the tables on a Bank of America branch and foreclose on them instead. As an eternal symbol of the stunning level...
3 Reasons to Buy Real Estate. Now.
If you intend to buy real estate in this lifetime, and don't do it soon, there's a good chance you might be kicking yourself in the coming years. Seriously. There are at least three factors in the current property market pointing towards the sweet uptick after a long, bloody fall down from the dizzying...
HOA Fees - Good, Bad, and Ugly
It's become an increasingly common scenario that the American home owner will be expected to pay Home Owner Association (HOA) fees ranging from ten or twenty bucks a month up to several hundred or more. In some cases, especially in certain ritzy neighborhoods, you could find yourself ponying up the equivalent...
Housing Slumps Even Lower Than 2009
According to an article recently passed around the office at Platinum Properties Investor Network, the recovery-that-wasn't in the housing industry has been confirmed as dead-on-arrival. Cheerleaders in the Obama administration got a little giddy when they thought that slight upward trend in some areas...
4 Marketing Strategies Your Home-Based Business Should Implement Immediately
Sales and marketing tactics in business have drastically changed from high-touch, personal relationships to content creation and other educational methods to deliver a business’ value proposition. Those who aren’t adapting to the new methods will undoubtedly be left behind in what has become a...
6 Failing Systems in the American Economy
One of the reasons that the American economy seemed to leap ahead in economic might (in years gone by obviously) was that we eventually created a system by which those looking to transact their daily business or choose investments in the pursuit of creating wealth knew they could go to specific places...
Phoenix Metro Area Rentals on the Rise
Just in time for the upcoming Phoenix foreclosure bus tour hosted by Jason Hartman and Platinum Properties Investor Network is newly released census data that reveals a full one-third of all homes in the city's metropolitan area are rentals. If ever there was a time for an "I told you so," this would...