Category: Economy
Real Estate Market Report
October 1st, 2012
After nine consecutive months of appreciation, August was the first month where home values decreased by 0.1% to $152,100, according to Zillow. 2012 has seen a turnaround in the housing market with sustained appreciation that, at times, has been very …Read more »
Is the Fed’s QE3 Good for the Housing Market?
September 25th, 2012
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced a new round of “quantitative easing,” or QE3, meaning the Federal Reserve will fire up the printing presses to buy $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) every month on an open-ended basis in …Read more »
The Delaware Series LLC for Real Estate Investors
September 16th, 2012
Following up to our previous article titled, "3 Reasons a Series LLC Should be a Real Estate Investor’s Best Friend", we now focus on benefits of a Delaware Series LLC. The Delaware series LLC is a form of a limited …Read more »
Just How Cheap is US Housing?
September 5th, 2012
Consider Minneapolis, Minn. You could’ve bought, out of foreclosure, a three-bedroom, two-bath house of 1,356 square feet on a quarter acre lot for about $29,000. It needed a lot of work, but houses in the neighborhood recently sold for $75,000. …Read more »
An Investor-Driven Recovery
August 27th, 2012
Investors are buying homes at a more rapid pace than ever before, and this time their investments actually make sense. Most are buying homes below replacement cost, or at prices that allow for a reasonable rental return. Across the 167 …Read more »
Bottom Dwellers Waiting to Pounce
August 7th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both published articles in the past six weeks stating that the housing market has reached a bottom. But hold on for just a minute... It seems that not everyone believes it. …Read more »
Analyze Your Market Using the MAD Method
July 30th, 2012
There are many complicated ways to analyze the market conditions in your local area, enough to confuse and boggle the novice investor’s mind. However, you can keep things simple by using our "MAD" method. This means paying attention to three …Read more »
On the Trail of the Housing Recovery
June 25th, 2012
One crisp fall Sunday afternoon under bright blue skies, my wife and I visited five homes up for sale. We remembered them by their street names: Big Acre, Blue Silo, Pontiac, Prairie Rose and Lamont. The lineup has a poetic …Read more »
How to Invest with a Declining US Dollar
June 20th, 2012
The Federal Reserve was supposed to protect the value of the U.S. dollar – at least that’s how it was originally sold to the public. We still don’t know why the dollar needed “protection”. It was solid for the longest …Read more »
