Category: Economy

The two large questions on the minds of real estate investors are: when will the economy recover? and when is a good time to reinvest in the housing market? We think the economy has reached the point where aggressive investors …Read more  »

Using self-directed IRA funds to purchase income-generating real estate is a profitable strategy an ever-growing number of investors are employing. These accounts (a.k.a. real estate IRAs) can buy rental property as an investment, just as they would buy stock market …Read more  »

For those of you wondering, a Series LLC is a regular LLC with a twist – it can have an unlimited number of subsidiaries (called Cells), and each subsidiary is treated as a separate structure where liability is concerned – …Read more  »

If you or someone you know dumped some "bad" real estate, then there might be a ticking tax bomb coming your way. It’s a Form 1099-C and it means you have a "cancellation of debt", and cancellation of debt is …Read more  »

Housing and rental vacancies have hit unprecedented levels. Included in these record vacancy numbers are a plague of abandoned properties fated for demolition, and millions more homes being withheld from market. Of the more than 19 million empty homes recorded …Read more  »

Our "favorite housing economist" Dr. Bob Shiller thinks the market (especially housing) is already overheated.  "We are in a very unusual circumstance," says Shiller, "because of the massive bailouts, the homebuyer tax credits, the Fed's purchase of mortgage-backed securities - …Read more  »

(Part 1 of 3) Let’s get straight to the heart of it: Attack #1: Would it bother you if you learned that the Obama administration has specifically targeted investors like you and me for massive tax hikes?  These tax hikes …Read more  »

Categories are graded from A thru F: Economic Growth:  D+ Spending remains high and income improved, but the unemployment level remains very high. Overall economic growth improved slightly this month, and the results for our economic growth metrics were generally …Read more  »

FICO Scores are calculated from a lot of different credit data in your credit report. This data can be grouped into five categories as outlined in the chart. The percentages in the chart reflect how important each of the categories …Read more  »