Entries Tagged 'Real Estate' ↓

Times in the housing market have no doubt been tough lately. Many people are losing homes, or are just drowning in debt. For those folks who don’t own homes, times aren’t much easier. Rising gas prices and decreasing employment rates are hurting everyone.

But there is one dim light somewhere further down the tunnel. Dropping interest rates may actually help some people, and may help some homeowners consolidate their debt. If you are a homeowner and want to find out about refinancing your home and consolidating your high-interest debt, you can check out CountrywideCredit.com. This site, provided by Countrywide, has plenty of information that will help make your House Refinancing decision easier, and will help you develop the right strategy to get the best results from your refinance.

Someone just posted a great article on Digg from the “Middle Class Millionaires” blog, located at http://www.middleclassmillionaires.com/blog/ . I had never come across this website before, but it really is full of great (and free) real estate investing information in the form of a blog. This reminded me that I have been severely neglecting the topic of real estate on my blog, so I thought I’d throw a little info your way.

The article that I came across was titled “Real estate wealth building through Master Leases” and was essentially about making money from real estate without owning the property. This can happen a number of different ways. The main two discussed in the blog entry are leaseing out large commercial buildings then subletting them in smaller parcels to your own tenants, and the lease option for the residential market.

The blogger, Roger Beattie, does a much better job of this than I, so check out his site and start making some cash in real estate!

How to handle our home loan is one of the most important decisions that we as consumers ever make. Unfortunately since it is such a rare decision, home loans and the home loan process is something that very few people truly understand. To be able to make a good decision and get the most out of a home loan, consumers must be fully educated about the process, and especially about avoiding loan fraud.

Fortunately with the Internet, we all have easy and free access to the information that we need in order to make an educated decision through websites like personalhomeloanmortgages.com. I would highly encourage you to do the research and get educated before rushing into such a huge financial decision.

Offices2Share.com is starting their second annual “The Home Office From Hell contest” today, October 23rd. The contest features cash and prizes from the contest’s Corporate Participants, who include everyone from Dell to Trump University. The grand prize is twelve months’ rent up to $12,000 at any location posted on Offices2Share.com plus a paid trip to New York City to have lunch with George Ross (you might remember the name…he’s Donald Trump’s right-hand man, and co-star of The Apprentice).

If you have a “Home Office From Hell” that you would like to upgrade, you need to visit Offices2Share.com and post your top 10 reasons why you need to move out of your “home office from hell.” You can also post a video of your “home office from hell” if you really want to show them what your office is like.

I must admit that for the first part of this year, real estate gave me a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. I had some experiences that taught me a lot, but that were extremely frustrating and turned me off to it for a while. Lately though, I have been thinking about getting back into it, and have taken the appropriate steps to do so.

A the end of August, I attended a probate auction for two mobile homes with a friend’s dad who is a real estate investor. Basically I watched him make more than my yearly salary in a day.

As if that wasn’t enough motivation, this year I feel like my Halloween plans are going really well. I have created some great props and a cool facade, and have learned a ton about prop automation. This reminded me that what I really want to do with my life is work most of the year at my current job, and make enough money in real estate to be able to spend three or more months a year making a professional haunt for the Halloween season.

This time I’m going to be more careful about who I deal with, and the things that I end up doing in real estate. I really like it, and it’s a great way to make some cash on the side and be able to spend more time with the people I love.

If you have ever thought about building your own real life log cabin like the ones you used to build out of Lincoln Logs as a kid, there are many things to keep in mind besides just worrying about your little brother knocking down your house. Log Homes are an entirely different animal from other real estate, but are a great housing solution in the right situations. If you’re interested in more information check out aboutloghomes.com, it’s a great resource for financing, building, and all sorts of other information on log homes.