This is a wonderful time in your life because learning beginning investing represents a turning point in the lives of people in this journey. It illustrates the moment you desire to stop being a consumer of goods and learn out to put good to work for you. This is truly a monumental moment in anyones [...]
Magic Johnson’s urban development fund hits pay dirt
REAL ESTATE By Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 16, 2008 Magic still seems to have his touch. At a time when many sources of financing for real estate projects are drying up, a fund co-founded by former Lakers guard Earvin “Magic” Johnson has banked $1 billion for commercial developments in urban neighborhoods. [...]
Fed takes bold steps to ease crisis
By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON – Urgently moving to contain a deepening credit crisis, the Federal Reserve is trying to restore confidence in panicked financial markets by becoming a lender of last resort for Wall Street investment houses that on Monday can begin securing short-term emergency loans. However, on Wall Street skittish investors [...]
The Rule of 72
What Is The Rule of 72? The Rule of 72 is a method used to quickly calculate the doubling and halving time of any growth rate: ie, investments, inflation, expenses, population, etc. For investors, it is essentially a shortcut for calculating compound interest on investments, the way to build wealth. It is important to note [...]
Estimating Your Way Around Rehabs
Many of you have asked me how I estimate my rehabs. Any rehabber will tell you there is no way to get exact figures, but there are ways to get close. The following method is geared towards light to medium levels of rehab and not structural or gut rehabs. If you plan on rehabbing for [...]
SUBJECT TO APPRAISAL, It’s Based on the Future Value of a Property.
There are various types of real estate appraisals an investor needs from time to time. Today, we will be discussing “Subject To” appraisals. What is a “Subject to” appraisal? “Subject to” appraisals are sometimes referred to as after-repair value, ARV, appraisals. This is because the value of the appraisal is given as if the repairs [...]
WHOLESALING 101 = What is Wholesaling
Wholesaling is a Buy Low – Sell Low opportunity where the sell price is higher than buy price. For the investor who ends up buying from the wholesaler, it’s a Buy low – Fix- Sell High opportunity or Buy Low-Fix-Refinance/Rent opportunity. Both the wholesaler and the end investor profit in this win-win situation. Sometimes this [...]
My First Rehab – Danielle Johnson-Pierce
I had always wanted to “get into” real estate investing. Like everyone else, I had seen the late night infomercials and heard all the “get-rich quick” schemes where everything sounded so easy. I was never truly convinced by any of the so-called gurus, so I bidded my time until about a year ago. It was [...]
Finding A New Niche: Short Sales and Foreclosures
While some sit around and complain that the real estate industry is suffering from a down market, others seek out an entirely new way to prosper by focusing on segments of the industry that are experiencing growth: short sales and foreclosures. It might take extra education and enterprise, but with the knowledge we garnered from [...]
Day 9: Blog Search Engines, Reciprical Links, Picture Links on Blog
This post is for our 30 Day challenge to bring more traffic to this website. 1. IWP is submitting this blog to these websites. It is a long and time consuming process, but we are on the case. Many of these search engines are no longer working. Also, many of these search engines require you [...]
Day 8: FeedBurner, Pings, Blog Layout
This post is part of a 30 Day series to drive more traffic to this website. IWP is following the challenge of Brian Armstrong and his blog Breaking Free. 1. We discovered we already had a FeedBurner account. One purposer of this account is to activate FeedFlare for your blog and webpages. It is a [...]
Day 7: MyBogLog, Blog Layout, DreamWeaver
This series is part of the 30 Day Challenge to drive more traffice to this site. Let’s go! 1. MyBlogLog is a web 2.0 website for blogs. Check it out. IWP registered the blog and in the future will build on this community. 2. Blog Layout was upgraded. The aim is to move it to [...]
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