The principal “arbitrage” opportunity in real estate is realized by locking in a fixed cost of borrowing (which can be re-financed in the future if interest rates drop) and generating cash flow to cover your costs. In this situation, you have a very limited downside...
Four principal factors drive the opportunity for income property investing. In most investments, such as stocks and bonds, there are only one or two factors like appreciation or dividends that drive the value of the investment. Income property is unique, because it is...
In the world of finance and economics, the term “arbitrage‟ means attempting to profit by capitalizing on price differences of identical or similar financial instruments in different markets or forms. For example, a hedge fund manager could buy a group of securities...
At 71 years of age, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison, the sort of term usually reserved for traitors, terrorists and extraordinarily violent criminals. By our count, that puts him back on the streets when he turns 221. To a person unfamiliar...
The real estate industry has done a hell of a job convincing the unwashed masses that it would be a hideous error in judgment to attempt to buy or sell property without the indispensable services of your local real estate agent. The cold, hard truth is that a property...
With the continuing evolution (or devolution) of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, more investors are rushing to find the latest foreclosure to hit the market. For those who can secure good credit or have money to spend, the opportunity to acquire investment properties...
The cyclical, sporadic, speculative nature of the stock market over the past decade has trained investors to chant the mantra “Buy low, sell high” every time they think about pulling the trigger on another deal. While this way of thinking might make perfect sense for...
Actually, the headline we should have used for this article is “Easy Qualified Leads are ALWAYS Too Good to be True” but you have to allow for that one odd duck case that disproves the blanket statement. To be a successful property investor, you learn early in the...
At some point in the not-so-distant future, Internet marketers and online entrepreneurs are going to look back at the over-optimized, barely-not-spam, wordage-disguised-as-online-content and laugh at the folly of it all. The Internet really didn't begin until January...
What is the best time to begin obsessing about your business's “brand”? The answer is maybe never. Brand is one of those fuzzy catch words that gets thrown around in upper management circles, even though no one really knows what it is or why they are pursuing it. Is...
