Foreign buyers like U.S. residential real estate
International buyers are snatching up U.S. residential real estate, with people from Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and China doing the most buying, according to a report in the Washington Business...
Reverse Engineer Your Retirement
I have two questions for you: When would you like to retire? How much will you need ($$$$) to retire on? Now that you have answered these questions we can start...
HUD May Limit SELLER FINANCING!
Attention my fellow investors! The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is considering a change in the rules that would in turn make seller financing a thing of the past. Yes,...
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...