Commercial Real Estate Investment Articles

Setting your real estate investing goals is essential to your success in real estate investing. I hope you won’t require convincing of this fact. Setting goals works. Period

In spite of our shaky economy, residential and commercial property values have improved in many parts of the country. Cheap money and easier lender underwriting guidelines are two of the main reasons why property values have appreciated right along with our increasing rates of inflation. Since the Credit Crisis began in the Summer of 2007, both commercial and residential property values have fallen significantly throughout the U.S. Accordingly, property owners are more likely to walk away from their “upside down” properties if their existing mortgage debt exceeds current market value.

More and more creative real estate investors are switching to the individual 401k and loving their new plan.

All of the real estate market news is positive: reduced inventories, faster sales, strong rental demand, and increasing prices in many metro areas. The time to invest in real estate is NOW.

If you’re investing in real estate, you’re probably paying too much for title insurance on every real estate transaction, and you didn’t even know it. Here’s a simple way to saving hundreds on title insurance that most people are never told.

Since the housing peak near 2007, approximately five (5) million homes nationally have gone all the way through the entire foreclosure process, ending up with the banks or with third-party investors. Another potential five (5) million homes may have gone through various phases of foreclosure but did not go all the way to a final foreclosure sale.

How Real Estate Investors Can Reduce Taxes and Pay the Minimum

Real estate is one of the best investments to counteract high rates of inflation.Despite the government’s claim of 3% to 4% annual rates of inflation, my personal experience says that the real price of gasoline, food, water, and utilities has skyrocketed in recent years.When inflation rates are high, the Federal Reserve usually likes to increase interest rates to slow down high rates of inflation. On the flip side, low rates of inflation may then lead to lower interest rates.But today we have both record-low interest rates and increasing inflation, which is leading to increasing home prices once again.

Are you ready to start investing for long-term wealth and cash flow? If you can invest for the long-term, then you’re ready to buy and hold real estate assets and build your portfolio of rentals. And we have a fantastic market for buying and holding real estate investments.

We all know that investing in foreclosures can be very profitable. You are not hurting those people. You are helping them save their credit, avoid stress, and in the end, save some of their equity.

Congratulations! You recognize that today’s real estate investing opportunities are the best that we have experienced in many years. But real estate appears to be so complicated and risky that you never do your first deal.

Today, interest rates have fallen to near record low levels while inflation continues to increase rapidly. Rates and inflation are usually inverse to one another and are akin to being on a “see saw.” The lower interest rates fall, then the higher inflation rises (and vice versa).

Many real estate investors either don’t know how to accurately assess a house’s market value or they think they have the right values when, in fact, they do not. If you don’t know how much a house is worth before you buy it or flip it, you’re asking for trouble.

When you buy houses to fix and flip, one key to your success is to buy the worst house in a nice neighborhood. If you can buy the house at the right price and create value with the right renovations, you’ll be able to sell the house and create a nice payday for yourself.

A real estate investor uses education and skill to make sound investments with substantial returns. A speculator invests with the hope that the investment will actually work and make money.

Many mobile home parks have amenities as nice as country club resorts. Mobile home parks are some of the best investment options today. Consistent monthly income and lower maintenance costs, as compared with other investment properties, make them an ideal investment.

This transcript How to Connect With a Motivated Seller in 5 Easy Steps was adapted from CREonline’s: Affordable Personal Coaching & Training for Real Estate Investors.

After you have developed you ability to get qualified leads, you must learn how to negotiate with sellers to get deals done. When I started my real estate investing business, I was able to close one deal out of ten, now I close at least one out of three. Can you imagine the impact on my income this change has created? It’s the difference between making 12 deals per year or 36.

The biggest mistake most flippers make can be so easy to avoid, yet so costly when it occurs. Newbies and veterans alike make it and, unfortunately, flippers rarely recognize it as a mistake at all. Instead, they tend to blame the economy, the market, or just plain bad luck.

In recent years, apartment buildings have become quite a popular investment option for real estate investors interested in finding good yields for their money. With mortgage underwriting guidelines tightening up considerably for residential properties (1 to 4 units), more real estate investors have decided to acquire apartment buildings. As interest rates have fallen dramatically, many apartment and commercial mortgage rates have also dropped to incredibly low ranges somewhere within 3% to 5%+. The lower the rates and the mortgage payments, the higher the monthly cash flow.

So, you just got that great bank-owned property under contract and now you need a loan to buy, fix and flip. You went to three hard money lenders, and they turned you down.Why? Because you STINK at selling your deal. That’s right, you need to learn how to SELL your deal to a lender.Start by getting a binder from Office Depot, with a set of tabs you can print on.

A lot of people are jumping into real estate again. They’ve heard the news that the market has reached the bottom and that this could be the best market of our generation. They’ve heard the good news that there is still a lot of distressed housing out there and that real estate can be purchased at big discounts.

I had a revelation this week! I am buying houses at very old prices, but still renting them for current prices. As an Engineer, I love equations, but doesn’t this one seem too good to be true?

I always say that for any business to succeed they just need two things: Access to capital and great marketing. And a real estate investing business is no different.

If you define flipping as buying a dilapidated property, completely renovating it, and then reselling it, then such a noble act as turning a neighborhood eyesore into a beautiful home is hardly an ethical question.