Short Sale Fraud: Avoiding Traps

Short sales – a sale in which a property is sold for less than the mortgage value to avoid foreclosure – can be a legitimate way to secure a viable investment property. But more than in other kinds of housing sales, the short sale market is especially vulnerable to...

Our Investment Property Strategy Doesn’t Require Picking Bottoms

While executing your investment property strategy, picking an exact market bottom isn’t as critical as you might think. It all comes down to the internals of the deal and whether it makes financial sense to pull the trigger at that point in time. While we would...

Investment Property Works When Other Assets Don’t

There’s nothing worse than scraping through life, bouncing from one failed or under-performing investment asset to another: stocks, bonds, and mutual funds if you follow the herd; gold and other precious metals if you listen to the gold bugs; forex if you really...

Should you get a real estate license?

The question might not pop into your head immediately. You may have been thinking about property investment for a while, or maybe even actually doing deals, when the idea strikes that getting a real estate license could actually help the cause. Well, would it? Before...