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I bet that a lot of you think that I have lost my mind by asking such a stupid question! But the truth is that this is what most Sellers want to do! Before you call the looney bin to have me admitted, take a minute and look closely at this photo of a $50 bill. Notice the writing at the top which ...
06/20/2011
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What, you may ask “do Toyotas have to do with houses”. Actually they have nothing in common, but the relationship between them is a graphic way of demonstrating the impact of value appreciation and price increases due to inflation. This analogy is one that I first heard from my friend David Campb...
06/15/2011
As Baron Rothschild once observed, “The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets”. To say there is blood in the streets may be a bit of an exaggeration in describing today’s housing market, but the recent release of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index report that nationwide home prices hav...
06/15/2011
I believe that now is the opportunity of a life time for buying real estate for three reasons: Most folks are very pessimistic about real estate right now and therefore it is a strong Buyers Market without a lot of competition. Therefore properties can be purchased for significantly less than rep...
06/04/2011
In Part 1 of The Easy Way to Get Low Down, Low Interest Loans, I explained that there are many homes today that have little or no equity that are subject to low interest loans that can be assumed, and offered the opinion that the risk of a Lender invoking the “Due on Sale” clause is very low. In ...
05/16/2011
In Part 1 of The Easy Way to Get Low Down, Low Interest Loans, I explained that there are many homes today that have little equity that are subject to low interest loans that can be assumed. Even though these loans will almost always have a “Due on Sale” clause, the risk of a Lender invoking that...
05/07/2011
You may be surprised to learn that the Easy Way to Get Low Down, Low Interest Loans is not some new government subsidized program. In fact, there is nothing new about this time proven technique which was a major source of financing during the high interest rate era of the late 70s and early 80s....
05/03/2011
Wouldn’t you love to buy fresh strawberries at only 5 cents a quart? Who wouldn’t? But of course you can’t. In fact, you couldn’t even buy them at that price during World War II, when 5 cents a quart was the official price controlled by the government. And of course, that is the point, and is why...
04/28/2011
Today, Buyers love to talk about the low price that they got on the purchase of a property at foreclosure, or at a short sale. Unfortunately, many Buyers bragging about the low price of their purchase would have done much better if they had focused on what is important! Interestingly, many claims...
04/26/2011
Actually, I lied! There are literally dozens of ways to finance the sale of real estate without using Bank Financing. The reason that I only mention five in the title is that this Blog will discuss the “Five Pillars of Creative Real Estate”. These Five Pillars are individual, independent Creative...
04/03/2011
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