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Buying Property In Costa Rica: Know Your Profit Strategy

By Editor • Oct 26th, 2008 • Category: Analysis

In real estate, there is a saying, The only three things that matter in real estate are location, location and location. The fact is that a ten bedroom, eight bath home with cathedral ceilings and a swimming pool that is sitting next to a trash heap is nearly worthless.
On the other hand a little one [...]



The Beginners Guide to Flipping Houses

By Editor • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Investing

Flipping houses is becoming big business in the world of real estate investment. Unfortunately it takes all kinds of ‘flippers’ to make the world go around and some of them aren’t nearly as conscientious as others. If you are going to get into the business of flipping houses and want to make a living, and [...]



5 Don’ts When Flipping A House

By Editor • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Investing

When it comes to making a profit in the business of flipping houses and other real estate investments you will find all kinds of do’s and don’ts along the way. The truth is that these are very useful whether this is your first flip or you have been flipping houses for 30 years. As a matter of fact you might [...]



Creative Investing and Financing Techniques

By Editor • Oct 6th, 2008 • Category: Investing

When you don’t have a lot of captial up front, investing in real estate is a great way to accumulate wealth rather quickly. However, this all depends on how creative you are. Traditional real estate investing by definition involves the purchase, ownership, management, rental and/or sale of real estate for profit. Under this definition, real [...]



How To Invest In Real Estate

By Editor • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Investing

Investing in real estate is a great way to make some extra money and diversify your portfolio as well. It is always good to have some real estate investment strategies in mind before you dive into your first investment property. Searching for properties that are below market value is what many savvy investors do. A good [...]



Real Estate Options For Your Self Directed IRA

By Editor • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Investing

Incorporating a foreign-based real estate property into your self-directed IRA real estate portfolio is a transaction allowed by the Internal Revenue Service that is to say they don’t disallow IRA investments in real estate as long as you are properly set up with a self directed IRA company. The reason not many people have [...]



The benefits to purchasers of home auctions

By Editor • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Investing

For the fluctuating realty industry, one particular niche offers a good advantage. Since then, property tax lien auctions have been the quickest developing within that meadow. could the reason be that the economy isn’t at its best and the rate of home foreclosures has never been so high? As homes go through foreclosure and repossession, [...]



Valuation Tool

By Editor • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Tools

A very useful tool form HomeFront:
This tool reveals accurate, immediate, easy residential real estate values (incidentally they have a SMS service directly to your mobile phone). And, with HomeFront’s extensive databases, they compile accurate value estimates as well as specific property details for over 100 million U.S. homes. You can access values with this tool.

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Real Estate Marketing: Google Adwords

By Editor • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Marketing

Google Adwords offers Real Estate Agents the opportunity to get instant enquiries! A Google Adword’s campaign can be setup in minutes, and traffic / visitors could start arriving at your site within 10 minutes. The campaigns can be easily monitored, and switched on & off in seconds. Budgets can be set so you can control your marketing budget.



Cityscape USA 2008

By Editor • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Miscellaneous

Title: Cityscape USA 2008Location: Javits Center, New YorkDescription: Cityscape USA 2008 – Bridging US and Emerging Real Estate Markets – will be a showcase for unparalleled investment opportunities in emerging real estate markets namely India, China, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Latin America.Start Date: 2008-09-09Start Time: 09:00End Date: 2008-09-12End Time: 17:00