Category: Real Estate Investing

Real estate prices, as with most financial markets, tend to follow a pattern. For the purpose of this article, we'll call this pattern "The Real Estate Cycle." There are many theories out there about The Real Estate Cycle, but the …Read more  »

The constant fluctuations of the housing market can mean many things in terms of property investment, rental rates and the life of a landlord. We know, for instance, that there is a higher percentage of renters in the United States …Read more  »

In Why are Billionaires Buffett and Trump Bullish on Real Estate Right Now? part 1, we stated that the Federal Reserve is committed to stable, steady long-term inflation. But what about all this talk of hyper-inflation? There are some doom-and-gloomers …Read more  »

When we interviewed Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago, he told us that NOW is a great time to get into real estate - and he specifically pointed to houses. Fellow billionaire, Warren Buffett, appeared on CNBC a couple …Read more  »

I've spoken many times on my radio show about how fear is used to move us. Well, recently I spotted a great example. Just last week I wrote about how a mortgage "expert" was predicting a "death spiral" in the …Read more  »

A growing number of real estate investors are using a self-directed IRA to finance their property purchases nowadays. That’s because a self-directed IRA can provide them with the opportunity to buy real estate and earn rental income without paying early …Read more  »

As we continue to go through Morgan Stanley's "Housing 2.0: The New Rental Paradigm" we're more confident that 2012 will be a big year for real estate investors.  For one, the financial services company boldly concludes, "...gross rents are historically …Read more  »

Optimism can only be rewarding if one takes action. Without it, it’s like driving a car that runs out of fuel; you’ll never arrive at your goal. Your past mistakes or apprehension about the future has nothing to do with …Read more  »

While homes prices continue to be on the decline, rent prices are actually on the rise and showed a 3 percent increase from January 2011 to January 2012, as opposed to home values, which dropped 4.6 percent during that same …Read more  »