Articles from October 2009

Real Estate Investor’s Life

     You’ve probably used sticky notes, organizers, calendars, spiral bound books, ledgers, palm pilots, cell phones and every other organizing system under the sun to get organized so you can contact these people and stay on top of things… But you’re still frustrated!      Because in the next few minutes, I’m going to give you [...]

Short Sale

     How Does a Short Sale Work:      Short selling or selling short is an investor’s technique. Those in the stock market benefit via such transactions with every fall in stock price and urgent sale of the instruments. The share market thrives on such short term sales and purchases of company and government stock. A [...]

The Valuation Of Real Estate

     Income properties are bought for the income. Income, then, is what is used to determine value. The rate of return investors in a given area expect gives you the capitalization rate, or “cap rate” for the area. This is what you use to accurately appraise an income property. Below is a somewhat simplified explanation. [...]