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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Buying outer banks (obx) investment property
- So, you're thinking of purchasing a rental property at the beach. Historically, real estate investments have proven to be a wise investment strategy. The name of the game has always been maximizing cash flow. Years ago, one could realize a healthy rate of return based on cash flow generated from rental income alone, however, with rising property costs, the number of beach properties with ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Guide to finding the perfect central illinois house
- Central Illinois is an area rich in cultural activities and business opportunities. The quality of life experienced by the residents of the numerous close-knit communities is second to none. Citizens in the central Illinois area are encouraged to participate in the many public events that take place throughout the year. Business development and opportunities are among the best in the country and t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to find an experienced monticello illinois realtor
- Finding a professional Monticello Realtor in Illinois is the best way to find the perfect property or home. A licensed realtor can assist you in locating the type of property you want in the price range you desire. Monticello Illinois is located in Piatt County and is in the suburban Champaign-Urbana area. Monticello is a community of small neighborhoods and is within easy access of the larger met...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret to marketing your fsbo home for sale
- You're ready to put your home or land (house, townhouse, condo, apartment, farm, ranch, finished lot, raw land, etc.) on the market as a FSBO (for sale by owner). You've priced your property appropriately and gotten it ready to show. How are you going to market it so that it gets exposure to enough potential buyers to actually sell?SignsIn some parts of the county, the real estate ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Content ideas for ads and brochures when selling your home
- Even in this hot real estate market, selling your home requires a bit of marketing effort. Ads and brochures are important and powerful tools. So, what do you put in you're marketing materials?ContentTo the degree possible include key information in you're ad or brochure. A classified ad will contain less than a poster, which will contain less than a brochure, which may contain less ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Cashing out of preforeclosures - exit strategies for maximum profit
- One of the quickest ways to real estate profits is through preforeclosures. What is a preforeclosure, exactly? A preforeclosure takes place from the time the bank gives notice of default to the time the house sells at auction. Typically, this is around the time of 90 days into default, depending on state law.The key to preforeclosure investing is equity - the difference between what a house...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ultimate short sale secret
- Buying foreclosures can be extremely profitable for real estate investors. However, most of these homeowners are mortgaged to the hilt. They have no equity, and big loan payments. In fact, many actually owe more than the property is worth!Most investors will walk away from these deals because they see no obvious profit. However, you can "create" your own equity by negotiating a &q...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Where to start in looking for a central illinois realtor
- Central Illinois is an excellent location for families and businesses. Property values and local economies are growing constantly and the wide range of available properties is impressive. If you are looking for a central Illinois realtor, you will undoubtedly find a professional, experienced real estate professional that will assist you through every stage of the buying process and will do so with...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 top real estate investing methods for maximum wealth
- Real Estate investing can be used to gain wealth in three major ways ?1. Long-term Real Estate investing is most often utilized using appreciation as a planning tool.Historically, Real Estate has doubled in value every 11 years (6% per year on average over the period).Of course, not all areas have seen that much appreciation, while others (like sections of California and Nevad...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Should you sell your home yourself?
- Are you thinking about selling your home? Would you like to sell it by yourself instead of hiring a real estate agent? If so it would be beneficial to review the pros and cons of selling your home by yourself before hanging out the sign.PROSSelling your home without an agent means More Money. If that's not an incentive, what is? By selling it yourself you save the fees or commissions...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - For sale by owner: the inside scoop on selling your own home
- If you're thinking about selling your home perhaps the 'for sale by owner' signs posted on neighborhood lawns have intrigued you. When you browse the newspaper listings you see ad after ad boasting 'for sale by owner' as an added incentive for buyers and you envy the owners that are confident enough to try it.There is plenty of money in real estate and who wants to split the profits with an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling your home yourself ? pricing it appropriately
- When you're selling your own property, whether it's a house, townhouse, condo, apartment, a finished lot, raw land, a farm, a ranch, or whatever, the first thing to get right is the price you ask for it. If you work with a broker, the legwork is done for you. When you work as a FSBO (for sale by owner), you need to figure it out yourself. Let's look at how to do just that.Setting a Price...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Maui realtors: what you need to know
- Maui is a great place for families of any size. However, before you plan a move to Maui and contact those Maui Realtors, there are some considerations that you should take care of. Here are a few things to look out for:Take a serious look at your budget.Determining whether or not a move to Maui is realistically in your budget should be the first step you should take. Contacting the M...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Searching the hawaii property listings
- Maui is an island so full of life and vivacity (perhaps because of the fact that it was formed millions of years ago by the eruption of two volcanoes) as well as being mixed with the enticing calm that you can only experience when you are near the sea. Sounds enticing? All of these dreams can become a reality by simply searching the Hawaii Property Listings and making the move. Maui also offers as...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Cutting edge real estate, is the bubble ready to burst?
- Of course, this is the big question in real estate now. . .Will the so-called real estate bubble burst like the dot-com bubble did a few years back?There are some good arguments on both sides of the issue. Whatever happens in the next few years, it will affect millions of Americans, and therefore also millions of people worldwide. If the bubble does "burst" as some say, it ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Negotiating a short sale ? the high road to huge foreclosure profits
- Buying foreclosures can be extremely profitable for real estate investors. However, most of these homeowners are mortgaged to the hilt. They have no equity, and big loan payments. In fact, many actually owe more than the property is worth!Most investors will walk away from these deals because they see no obvious profit. However, you can "create" your own equity by negotiating a &q...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A $100,000+ discount on miami condos
- By this point and time, many people have heard about buying preconstruction condos and some of the amazing profits that have been generated by these investments. What many people don't understand is that there is another way to play the preconstruction investing game, especially for those investors with solid financial resources. Let's take a look at the Miami condo market as a great example....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Subdividing - but not land!
- Many people are familiar with the concept of sub-dividing a large piece of property into smaller lots. The same concept can be very profitable in other areas.Taking a larger parcel, structure or complex and dividing it into its parts can result in much higher prices, and threfore good profits.One example is a person buying a large warehouse, dividing the floor space into many smaller...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Real estate: a strong investment
- Description: Even in uncertain economic times like these, history shows that real estate is one of the soundest investments a family can make. Also remember that the stock market is not the only place where people can make their fortunes. And also, you'll hardly ever hear of real-estate investors who've gone bankrupt, unlike stock market investors.Even in uncertain economic times like these...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lock in big profits by offering rent to own deals
- Why would anyone accept a lease option, rent to own deal? Why would you, as a seller/investor look to find rent to own tenants? How can you use this technique to LOCK IN profits that are much greater than would be found in a straight sale?Basically, the advantages depend on which of two end results occur: either the rent to own tenant completes on the property, or they ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling your home on your own ? examples of problems and solutions
- What can go wrong? About a gazillion things, but this is true if you're working with a broker, too. A broker is probably more experienced than you, and may well have confronted and solved your problem on a previous home sale. If you can stay calm and think under stressful conditions, you can be your own problem solver without the need for a broker. Plus, there is no guarantee the broker will get i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling your home ? alone or with a broker?
- How do you decide whether to sell your home (or land, farm, ranch, etc.) on your own or use a real estate broker? There are pluses and minuses to each approach. Let's look at some of the key ups and downs. Only you can decide which approach has the most pluses in your situation.Why go FSBO?"FSBO" stands for "for sale by owner" and tells buyers you are not using a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling your home ? what can go wrong with title and lenders
- If you're selling your home, there are going to be difficulties at some point in the transaction. Some problems can't be fixed. It's important to figure out whether yours are fixable or not. Then you can either fix them or move on and find another buyer. If it's priced appropriately, there's a buyer out there for virtually every property.Title ProblemsYou get a call from the person s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling your home ? what can go wrong with pricing and loans
- So, you're selling your home (house, townhouse, condo, apartment, land, lot, farm, ranch, etc.), what can go wrong? The sad fact is that a lot of things can go wrong. However, don't despair, there are almost as many solutions as problems. In this article, we look at problems related to pricing and a buyer's inability to get a loan.Price NegotiationA problem that shows up all too freq...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 mistakes to absolutely avoid in a 1031/tic exchange
- We've all made bad decisions in the past. Don't you just hate to hear "I told you so" from your friends and family? Or, maybe you catch yourself saying "If only I'd have...?"Personally, I'm one of those people who prefers to learn from someone else's mistakes. If you're at all like me, and you have thought about doing a 1031 exchange into a tenant in common (TIC) property, take note. You ca...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Property investors, scrub your thoughts and start again - brazil, brazil, brazil!
- Brazil Property - FortalezaThe PlaceWhat to do in a place like this - You can swim, surf, dive, sail, golf, play ball, ride, explore, bargain hunt, sight see, explore, drive a dune buggy for 100 miles in any direction, or take a jeep up a steep mountain trail. You can explore environmental preserves, or just swing in a hammock and do nothing at all.Beaches: there are hundreds ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Empty nesters flock to inner city
- Babyboomers whose children have left home, commonly known as "empty-nesters" are buying inner city apartments in record numbers.Director of Acton Special Projects, Marc Drexel says the trend is towards quality rather than mass developments."The empty-nest market is growing and expanding with people wanting to reward themselves with a quality lifestyle property".Typically this ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing in commercial property
- Investing in commercial property is well beyond the financial means of most people. Few can afford the large sums of money involved in buying commercial real estate. For most of us our investment in real estate is limited to where we live - our home.But unfortunately our home doesn't generate any income or cash flow. In fact it probably costs us money in maintenance, rates and upkeep....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Buying rental property - avoid sellers tricks
- Be careful when buying rental property. We stayed at a motel for a week one winter. The bill showed twice what it should have, but since I already paid the correct amount in cash, I thought nothing of it. When we noticed that the lobby and swimming pool were unheated, we thought it was frugality. Only a year later, when I read a news story about a new owner struggling to make the motel work, did I...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Many ways to make money in real estate!
- Real Estate is a multi-faceted investment arena - there are MANY different methods to earn money from different niches in real estate. One or several may work for YOU!Here's the typical experience: "buy your own residence and sell it when its all paid off and you want to retire, oh my gosh look at all the money its worth".If THAT worked well for so many people, imagine the effect on ...