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This website will provide you with:
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The author has more than 40 years of personal experience as a real estate investor, property manager, lender, and developer.
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The articles, predictions, forms, and worksheets will help you improve your success when dealing with real estate as a buyer, seller, investor, developer, landlord, agent, tenant, or property manager. This includes the purchase of your personal residence. Even a personal residence should be thoroughly researched, scrutinized, and understood.
Do you need to re-evaluate your real estate properties? The real estate forms and worksheets will help you to make better real estate decisions by making it easier to perform your analysis.
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Real Estate Agents
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What if you had predicted the real estate market downfall?
How much money could you have Made ... SAVED?
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Would you like to make better-informed decisions about real estate ownership or leasing?
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Tips, ideas, solutions, mistakes, and more than 40 years of learning experiences in the real estate business will be shared so that you may have the opportunity to make decisions like a real estate investment professional.
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Sellers
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Investors
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Managers
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Real Estate Cos.
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Builders
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You have the opportunity to gain wisdom without having to wonder about a hidden agenda. I do not have a financial interest in your real estate success. Therefore, the tips, ideas, and solutions shared are unbiased.
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Knowledge is key to your success. Knowing more about a property will provide the greatest opportunity to success.
Get-rich schemes are not suggested or endorsed. Real estate investing, development, financing, and property management is my livelihood and passion. More realistic and fundamental approaches are used to provide less risk and stress leading to greater success. I believe in and will share realistic, long-standing, proven methods shared with me by my Grandfather and Father.
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Real estate influences everyone's life, from owners to renters to investors, to lenders. Real estate can be one of the most important, largest purchases or sale a person will make, and possibly one of the most costly and risky if not done properly.
Real estate can also provide one of the best forms of investments in all economies. For example, rental property is a good investment during depressed economies if purchased and managed properly. If the number of foreclosures is rising, so is the number of tenants.
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Your real estate decisions TODAY may affect your children and heirs tomorrow.
HOW you acquire a property may be more important than paying a good price. This includes your personal residence.
You do not want to put your family in the poor house because of your real estate purchases.
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It is my belief conservative, realistic, sound fundamentals work universally in any economy. Buying at realistic prices that provide a realistic return on the investment (money at risk), not making a fast buck, provides greater success. Selling properties at realistic, affordable prices so that the buyer is never in jeopardy of a property worth less than the purchase price is good practice for community strength and your reputation.
No Herd Mentality. I do not follow trends or get caught up in hypes. Thorough local, national, and international research is conducted daily to have a complete understanding of the present economic and real estate conditions and values so that a more accurate analysis of the future may be determined.
The informed with realistic analysis
will always make money in all economies.
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Do you have a specific real estate question?
E-mail your questions for a direct answer.
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No wishing or ideology.
The Real Estate Market Outlook Report is a detailed, unbiased assessment of the present real estate market and economic conditions with an opinion on future expectations.
Thorough research is conducted daily on the present economic conditions, present real estate market, government involvement (current and planned), and buyer trends to develop a viewpoint of what to expect in the near and distant futures.
The research goes beyond media sound bites, debates, and political guessing. This report is based upon facts and realistic numbers.
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Are you prepared?
Knowledge is the Best Investment
in Tomorrow
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46 States Face Budget Deficit in 2011
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California Deficit
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Countless Counties, Cities, Towns Deficits
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Consumer & Business Bankruptcies
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Declining Credit Scores
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Declining Qualified Borrowers
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No Significant & Sustainable New Job Creation
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Growing National Debt
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State-County-Municipality Deficits
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Pension Fund Deficits - Government & Business
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Commercial Mortgages
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Local Banks are in Dire Financial Condition
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Declining Property Values
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Declining Property Tax Collection -- thus Increasing Local Government Debt
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Declining Sales Tax Collection-- also Increases Local Government Debt
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U.S. Lenders (China, etc.) are increasingly uneasy with the U.S. Economy
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The People’s Bank of China is worried about a second round of non-performing loans
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Financial Stability of U.S. and Many World Economies
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The Move From the Dollar As the World Currency
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157 banks failed in 2010
More than 860 banks are on the 2011 FDIC "Troubled Banks" List
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Federal Law. Keep yourself out of trouble with the law. An advertising error can cost you the money paid to you PLUS penalties and legal costs.
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Helpful tips on how to evaluate properties, especially foreclosures, short-sales, and houses that may have been empty.
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Simple methods for reducing the costs associated with ALL types of loans.
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An explanation of the perceived Grace Period in loans and rental/lease agreements.
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Advice for property owners and tenants of what to do prior to foreclosure, during the foreclosure process, and what to expect afterwards. You will learn ways to avoid pitfalls. |
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A viewpoint of the advantages and disadvantages of each. A section will contain a viewpoint of what to do in the present economy.
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Tips on ways to sell your property faster and for more money. This will include ways to market your property and preparation.
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An in-depth review of the selling options for sellers to get a property sold NOW.
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Property/Home Owner Associations can negatively as well as positively affect the value of a property. They can also be a big annoyance as well as costly. This is a detailed explanation of what to expect and how to deal with Property/Home Owner Associations and Common Interest Community Associations. |
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An explanation of some of the rights tenants have and what to do to protect those rights. This will include what to include in the Lease Agreement, what is expected of you and the landlord, and some of your legal rights.
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15 professional negotiating tips to help you sell for more or buy for less.
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Tips for ways to successfully collect payments, both loan and lease payments. This includes ideas on how to set up the payments terms so that they will be made timely. |
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Finance and lease terms is the strongest factor in determining the price (selling and leasing) and how quickly a property will move. In fact, terms have more influence than any other factor, including location. Good terms will strongly influence location considerations.
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How to determine if buying a property is a good investment. What should you consider before making a decision -- such as, what are the holding costs?
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To order an article ...
Send an e-mail message by clicking on ORDER associated with each article. I will respond with an e-mail message providing instructions on how to purchase each article you want.
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More Articles Coming
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The Author Will Answer Your Specific Questions
and Provide Analysis
I will share ideas to help you achieve your goals.
Additionally, I can review a project or investment and provide an analysis and suggestions.
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Future Article
Investing in Real Estate
My Father always told me; "There are more "good deals" out there than you have money or time." So is the "deal" your are considering right now really a good one? I will share tips and ideas.
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Buying Tips
Realistic tips for buying real estate. This will include information you should collect and confirm PRIOR to buying any property. It will NOT include get-rich-schemes.
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Internet Marketing
More than 80 percent of people searching to buy or rent begin their search online. Residential or commercial, proper Internet marketing is critical to your success.
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Qualifying For A Loan
Tips on ways to qualify for a real estate loan. I will also share pitfalls to avoid.
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Leasing Tips
Tips on ways to lease your property faster and for more money. This will include ways to market your property and prepare the property for leasing.
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Future Article
Debt Collection
There are legal, illegal, and the best way to collect debts.
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Negotiating Tips
How to negotiate the best win-win deal for all parties.
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Future Article
How to Advertise Credit & Lease Terms
Some people scour advertising looking for inappropriately worded ads so they can pounce on them and threaten a lawsuit. This is a guideline to keep you out of trouble.
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Future Article
Late Fees and Interest Charges
Improper charging of late fees can result in very serious legal consequences. Improper charging of interest can also result in serious and costly legal consequences that can involve the State and/or Federal government. Read this article to avoid facing overwhelming consequences.
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Future Article
Marketing Secrets
I will reveal proven ways to better market your real estate. Many are long-time proven methods that are overlooked or ignored by most.
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The Author Will Answer Your Specific Questions
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I will share ideas to help you achieve your goals.
Additionally, I can review a project or investment and provide an analysis and suggestions.
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A detailed checklist to help you thoroughly inspect the interior and exterior of a property. You will not overlook any detail using this checklist.
The worksheet is very useful for landlords and tenants.
This is in a spreadsheet file format to allow filling in the blanks and printing.
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Checklist of documents and information (deed, maps, covenants, etc.) to obtain when considering the purchase of a property.
Obtain this information PRIOR to making any offer to buy.
If you do not know everything there is to know about a property, how can you make an educated offer? Why would you buy?
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This form is for the seller to fill out to provide information about the property.
This form is critical. One reason, the answers will give you a clue of some issues to research when investigating the purchase of the seller's property. Another, it is illegal in many states, including Colorado, for a seller not to disclose or tell the truth about detrimental information about a property.
Thus, this form is for your protection.
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Checklist of documents each property folder should contain and the order in which they are to be in the file.
This makes it much easier to find critical documents.
This is critical so that anyone can determine the status of a property and obtain all critical information in case you are incapacitated.
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For any income property, including residential, apartment, commercial -- including office and retail buildings.
Checklist of due diligence to conduct, including documents and information to obtain when considering the purchase or management of an income property. Obtain this information PRIOR to making any offer to buy.
If you do not know everything there is to know about a property, how can you make an educated offer? Why would you buy?
This is in a spreadsheet file format to allow filling in the blanks and printing.
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The Author Will Answer Your Specific Questions
and Provide Analysis
I will share ideas to help you achieve your goals.
Additionally, I can review a project or investment and provide an analysis and suggestions.
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Keep ALL documents -- legal, communications, copies of receipts, copies of checks -- in a folder in a very safe place such as a safe or Safety Deposit Box at a bank. If you have communications (e-mail) and information on your computer, copy everything to a CD and store in the folder.
Let key people know where the important is stored.
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GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING
Real estate law in most areas requires any understanding, agreement, or contract must be in written form and signed by all parties involved for it to be legal. Any changes to an understanding, agreement, or contract must be in writing to be legal.
In many cases, VERBAL understandings, agreements, and contracts are not legal and they are very difficult to defend in court.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Who Moved My Cheese"
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INVEST IN YOURSELF
Your most important investment is in yourself. Every day seek more knowledge.
"You should finish each day a little smarter than you began the day." ~ Warren Buffett
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Do you have a specific real estate question?
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