It Is Not a Buyer's Market
The current market does not favor buyers. I repeat, the current market does not favor buyers. Allow me to explain. For months, if not years, you have been told that the...
Homes Are A Lot Like People…
...TLC, a healthy diet and even a little surgery may be required! As a former nurse, I have come to learn the commonalities that Charlotte real estate shares with patients--they...
The Menace of Strategic Default
By LUIGI ZINGALES Homeowners who walk away from their mortgages undermine our financial system. HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Fortunately, debtors no longer face prison time, as they did in nineteenth-century London, but shouldn’t they...
Study: Nearly One in Five Mortgage Defaults Are ‘Strategic’
By Nick Timiraos A new report estimates that nearly one in five mortgage defaults through the first half of 2009 were “strategic,” where borrowers who appeared to have the capacity to...
Fannie Mae cracks down on borrowers
Fannie Mae is boosting penalties for strategic defaulters by prohibiting them from getting a mortgage, backed by the company, for seven years from foreclosure date. Washington-based Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) says...
101 Real Estate Investing Resources: A Professional Investor's Rolodex
This week we’ve put together a fairly comprehensive list of resources for you to check out. You can start using many of these immediately as they are free of charge....
The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs
The Top Real Estate Investing Blogs To put this list together, we looked at close to 200 different blogs from both real estate investing-related companies and individual real estate investors. Here are...
7 Ways to Make Money in Distressed Real Estate in 2010
Cash is King, the time to buy distressed property is now! generic They past two years will inevitably go down as the most distressed real estate market in U.S history. Yes, worse...
Buy and Hold in this market? Well, it appears we're headed for a housing shortage…do it
Buy and Hold (waiting for the coming Housing Shortage) - The oldest, most tried and true method of real estate investing takes advantage of inflation, market appreciation and amortization. Fancy...
SEC Sues Utah Man For $145 Million Real Estate Investing Fraud
July 02, 2010, 12:46 PM EDT By Joshua Gallu July 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Utah man for falsely telling customers their $145 million would be invested...