Archive for November, 2007
BloggerNoob and the other Featured Sites
In the spirit of Christmas (it’s never too early for that, right?), I’m taking up BloggerNoob’s post challenge. I won’t kiss him… but I’ll give him a shout-out. Take a look. He’s a got a relatively new blog in the make money online mode. He’s also on my Featured Sites list to the right. I’d […]
Read More..>>InvestmentPropertiesInfo.com
I was invited to take a look at a real estate investing Web site recently. InvestmentPropertiesInfo.com has a nice collection of quick-hit articles and tips. If you take a look at the site, you’ll see a wide range of information on strategies, financing, research and other issues. It’s not set up like a blog, but […]
Read More..>>Using MySpace to screen tenants
People often don’t realize who reads what they’re putting online. For the first year at my first real job I would sometimes have to go through resumes for interns and temps. I couldn’t believe that someone would put their goofy email address on a resume. I mean, if the email you use is drunkgirl69@hotmail.com, don’t […]
Read More..>>Tenants: Are you being blacklisted?
I’ve gotten a few new tenants into my four-flat, which brings up the question of background checks. Given my experience with the tenant I had to evict, I’d be interested in hearing what kind of background checks you do, or you think you should do. I have a three page application which includes a credit […]
Read More..>>Web Bidding Help Drives Live Auctions
Last Saturday we bid on a house in San Antonio that was up for auction by Williams Auctions. The cool thing about it is that the auction was held in Dallas, but we bid online. I’m sure this helped raise the price of a lot of the properties for sale. It definitely brought more people […]
Read More..>>Cold Weather Tips for Four Legged Bird Dogs (and Cats)
Happy belated Thanksgiving, readers. With the holiday season officially kicked off, it won’t be long before we hunker down for the worst weather of the season. This means less real estate traffic in the coming months, and one has to wonder if the spring season will inject any signs of life back into the real […]
Read More..>>Cash flow- Why is it important?
You have to adjust your investing style to what the market brings you. A few years ago flippers made a killing not worrying about anything but fixing a place up and selling it. They didn’t care about renting the unit, and they didn’t concern themselves with their loans re-setting in a year, because they assumed […]
Read More..>>Near-campus rentals a fine investment
A little more than a month ago, Caroline and I went to watch a Notre Dame game in South Bend with our friends and their family. The game, unfortunately, didn’t work out well for Notre Dame, although the trip was really fun. Their family owned a townhouse within walking distance to the school and the […]
Read More..>>Condo sale falls through
I really got some bad news last weekend. I was supposed to close on Nov. 30th on a condo I sold, but the buyer backed out. The buyer had three days after looking at the condo docs to back out, and she exercised this provision. There wasn’t anything actually questionable in the condo docs. She […]
Read More..>>3 ways you can go broke in real estate
You can, indead, go broke in real estate. You can’t make money unless you take risks, but I think that many people take risks without even knowing they are taking risks. Understand what you’re getting yourself into, and you’ll end up much better off. Three big risks discussed in this article: neighborhood change, the tenant […]
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