The steps on how to buy foreclosure property began with these other two articles called how to buy a foreclosure and how to buy a foreclosure home. Be sure to read those two articles to get all that you can out of this series on foreclosure property. And just for the record, when you are [...]
Real Estate Appraisal: Why You can’t Trust the Zillow’s of the World
No matter if you are a real estate investor, home owner, seller, or looking to buy one day in the future, there are a few reasons that you cannot trust the automated valuation models in the world like Zillow. And these are thing things we are going to discuss in this article today. I am [...]
How to Start Investing in Real Estate
If you are wondering how to invest in real estate, then the question of how to start investing in real estate has definitely crossed your mind, right? Good. Because this is a question that every single great and even mediocre real estate investor has pondered at one time or another. This is the point at [...]
Mortgage Rates Hit Another Record Low: Good News or Fair Warning
After reading another Yahoo Finance report on how the mortgage rates have hit another record low. They have fallen to 4.54%, down from 4.56% on 30 year mortgages. In fact, several weeks in a row this has been the tune that is playing and it started to make me wonder. The average rate for 30-year [...]
How to Finance Investment Real Estate
When it comes to how to finance investment real estate, there are a few options that you need to know and understand before proceeding. Not all money is available or accepted with certain types of deals, so you have to aware of all the options before proceeding. This can be tricky and there are a [...]
How To Get Started in Real Estate Investing
The question on how to get started in real estate investing is one that comes up very often to us here at Invest With Passion. And it is a great question that really does have a very simple answer, but people tend to over complicated because of the subject matter. To answer the question of [...]
Why Traditional Financial Planning Sets Us Up For Failure
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you” Ralph Waldo Emerson What is at the Core of your Worth? Is it your home, your 401k, your pension, your portfolio? Are those the things that define your Worth? What is personal finance investing worth? When we sit down with clients one [...]
Real Estate Investment Club How to Start One
The question of how to start a real estate investment club is one that is very interesting to me because I have started one type and attempted to start another, but had some things happen where the second didn’t work out and we haven’t yet tried to start it again. Yes, there are different types [...]
Failure to Comply With Deposit Notifications Could be Costly
Imagine being forced to write a check to a previous tenant who still owes you money. This is a very real possibility if you fail to comply with the law after the tenant moves out. With the amounts and occurrences of tenant debt rising, having to pay a previous tenant who still owes you money [...]
How to Invest Real Estate
The one thing everyone wants to know is how to invest real estate in an effective manner that will make them some money? This is a great question and one that has been the center of discussion since the inception of this country and the bundle of rights that come along with property ownership. It [...]
Accepting Late Payments Can Land You in Court
There are many reasons why you shouldn’t allow a tenant to pay rent late, but the legal implications must always be at the top of the list. Unfortunately, by being the nice guy, or gal, and accepting late rent payments, you might be establishing grounds for a Fair Housing lawsuit. Last year, I sat in [...]
How Do You Make Confident Decisions About Your Finances?
What is your rate, Bryan? That was the kiss of death question from a client when I was in the mortgage business. I knew right then and there my goal of helping someone make a confident decision about their mortgage was O-V-E-R. Here was the challenge: Do you write 6.875% on the check you wrote [...]
Why Philanthropy?
Over the last few years, I have been thinking to myself that it is time to get involved with the world and specifically my community around me. As I enter further and further into my 30′s, I am realizing that it is time for me to give back and the desire to do so grows [...]
Real Estate Appraisal: What will add value to your home in a down market?
This the real estate appraisal question that every homeowner, investor, and buyer wants to know the answer to. Yet, it isn’t one that can be answered very easily. There are some things that you must understand before we can take on this question properly. And the first one begins with, what is value? What is [...]
Personal Finance Secret Saving Tips
In these hard financial times, it can be very easy to forget some of the basic personal finance investing rules that you have for yourself. The first rule that we have talked about is saving your money first. In today’s society, this is very difficult because we have an instant gratification society that says we [...]
How I Got Lucky and Avoided Foreclosure on my Investment Property
This story is one about plain luck and there is no strategy to it, but I thought it would be interesting to share my story about how I got lucky and avoided foreclosure on my very first investment property. A few years back, I wanted to start beginning investing and got my credit together and [...]
3 Steps to Regaining Control over your Personal Finances
Before you can do any type of personal finance investing, beginning investing, or even real estate investing, you have to get your personal situation and money in order. There is no sense in going out and creating other money concerns if you financial house isn’t in order. And as many of us know from first [...]
The Real Estate and Foreclosure Market Continue to Drag Economy
Despite the greatest efforts by those in the White House, on Wall Street, Main Street, and the general economy, the real estate and foreclosure market is still dragging the market downward. The worst part of all of this that there isn’t an end in sight for many economist. We will be sure to explain in [...]
Mortgage Delinquencies are Noose around the Neck of the Economy
In more obvious news today, the rate of mortgage delinquencies continues to rise. According to the Associate Press, 10% of homeowners with mortgages have missed at leased one payment between January to March of 2010. This number is up from 9.1% from a year ago and is not a good sign. This looming and lingering [...]
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