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Megan McGinnis’ List of Real Estate Investor Resources

3. April 2010

Megan McGinnis’ List of Real Estate Investor Resources CREOnline A place to find anything and everything you want to know about real estate investing. Foreclosure Forum Ward Hanigan offers insights and tips. 50 State Foreclosure Basics Foreclosure Glossary Fillable Forms Tax Lien & Deed Lists at affordable Prices Free webinar Lloyd Segal’s Foreclosure Bootcamp- Awesome [...]

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Top 10 Most Upside Down Housing Markets

31. March 2010

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Top 10 Most Upside Down Housing Markets 1. Las Vegas 2. Merced, Calif. 3. Phoenix 4. Orlando 5. Greeley, Colo. 6. Bend, Ore. 7. Minneapolis-St. Paul 8. Memphis 9. Cleveland 10. Grand Rapids, Mich. Is it time to double down? Please join my newsletter Peace, Megan Read the complete article on the top 10 [...]

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Key Factors Keeping California in Housing Slump

25. March 2010

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Key Factors Keeping California in Housing Slump What is keeping the California market from returning to normal? Five key financial trends seem to be the culprits: rising MLS inventory, falling rents, lack of good paying jobs, FHA defaults rising and no mortgage payments. My friends on Dr. Housing Bubble present a very compelling case. Enjoy [...]

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Home Buying Incentives from Fannie Mae

5. March 2010

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Home Buying Incentives from Fannie Mae This just in, hot off the press. Fannie Mae is helping owner-occupied house buyers with closing costs & new appliances. These are the details. Enjoy the article and please join my newsletter to receive other valuable information. Peace, Megan “Fannie Mae wants to sell its housing inventory that it [...]

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Real Estate Professional Status as viewed by Uncle Sam

13. February 2010

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Real Estate Professional Status as viewed by Uncle Sam The IRS started challenging the real estate professional status over two years ago. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of audits, unfavorable audit results and a few court cases. The real estate professional status allows taxpayers to take full advantage of real estate losses against other [...]

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Upside Down Homeowners-Should You Stay or Should You Go?

7. February 2010

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Upside Down Homeowners-Should You Stay or Should You Go? The debate is raging for homeowners who are upside down in their mortgages. With 30% of the population owing more than their houses are worth, many homeowners are weighing the pros and cons of walking away from their homes. Understanding all your options is one of [...]

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Hard Money Lender Questions Answered

3. February 2010

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Hard Money Lender Questions Answered Since the FHA has changed the policy on flipping and we are no longer required to hold for 90 days, I thought it might be a good idea to review what hard money lending is about. Troy lays it out very nicely here. Thanks for stopping in and please be [...]

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2009 Top Real Estate Video On YouTube

21. January 2010

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2009 Top Real Estate Video On YouTube If you have not seen this video by now then you’ve really been out of it. I’m sharing it with my online friends because it is not just clever but it’s CLEVER. This is a parody using a clip with Hitler as a real estate investor. He bought [...]

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Top 10 Commercial Real Estate Experts on Twitter

19. January 2010

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Top 10 Commercial Real Estate Experts on Twitter 1. Duncan C. Wierman | ( DuncanWierman on Twitter ) Software CEO turned Real Estate Investor / Marketer. I show you how to use creative online marketing methods to do more deals online. Virtual Investing 2. mike warren | ( mikewarren129 on Twitter ) Helping people make [...]

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Are Loan Mods Just Another Exotic Mortgage?

14. January 2010

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Are Loan Mods Just Another Exotic Mortgage? This is a great question and I’m not the only one asking it. The following article challenges the view of loan mods as a long term solution. It is said that when the “step up” interest rate settles after 5 years in its permanent place, there will be [...]

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Top 10 Loan & Lending Experts on Twitter

2. January 2010

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Top 10 Loan & Lending Experts on Twitter 1. Kiva.org | ( Kiva on Twitter ) Loans that Change Lives 2. Kevin Cottrell | ( kevincottrell on Twitter ) Leading Real Estate Media and Economic Expert, I share current and breaking news and critical info focused on real estate, financial/mortgage markets 3. Dan Tanner | [...]

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Top 10 Real Estate Trainers on Twitter in 2009

26. December 2009

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Top 10 Real Estate Trainers on Twitter 1. Peter Olsen | ( PeteOlsen on Twitter ) At Rent To Own Homes, LLC. we are looking for homes in all 50 states that we can rent to own! 2. Joe Manausa | ( HousingReporter on Twitter ) Tallahassee Real Estate – I am a real estate [...]

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Top 10 Business Real Estate Blogs on Technorati

23. December 2009

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Top 10 Business Real Estate Blogs on Technorati I find these lists so helpful and I hope you do as well. Peace, Megan PS Wait until you see what list I publish next week! 1. Mortgage Insider http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com Realestate Auth: 956 2. RISMedia http://rismedia.com Realestate Auth: 900 Top 100 business 3. Lansner on Real Estate [...]

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Top 10 Real Estate Investor Experts on Twitter

20. December 2009

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Top 10 Real Estate Investor Experts on Twitter 1. sean malarkey | ( SeanMalarkey on Twitter ) 2. Duncan C. Wierman | ( DuncanWierman on Twitter ) 3. Peter Olsen | ( PeteOlsen on Twitter ) 4. Gerald Romine | ( geraldromine on Twitter ) 5. Marco Santarelli | ( MarcoSantarelli on Twitter ) 6. [...]

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Top 10 Real Estate Experts on Twitter

17. December 2009

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Top 10 Real Estate Experts on Twitter 1. Andrew Svitek | ( LandUseAttorney on Twitter ) I’m a lawyer specializing in environmental and land use law. 2. sean malarkey | ( SeanMalarkey on Twitter ) Expert List Builder – Internet Junkie – Full time Real Estate investor. Husband, dad, good friend to many 3. Kevin [...]

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Real Estate Investors Disappointed by New Home Buyer Tax Credit

18. November 2009

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Real Estate Investors Disappointed by New Home Buyer Tax Credit If you are a real estate investor and were hoping, like me, that the new credit would offer benefits to investors, you will be sorely disappointed, like me. However, it does make it easy to sell your properties on land contract and help you “cash [...]

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Two Big Commercial Lenders Fail or Do They?

16. November 2009

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Two Big Commercial Lenders Fail or Do They? CIT and Capmark are the most recent casualties of the commercial real estate sector. These two commercial lenders filed bankruptcy in the past week. WSJ’s Mike Spector tells Dennis Berman while it’s rare for financial firms to come out of Chapter 11, CIT might be the exception [...]

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No Bailout in Commercial Loans Means Another Crash

14. November 2009

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No Bailout in Commercial Loans Means Another Crash Analysts are predicting that the government won’t be helping the banks who made commercial loans that are going into default. It’s not just because the government is out of money either. The commercial lenders are being told to resolve their problems on their own by negotiating [...]

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Protect Your House Value

13. November 2009

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Protect Your House Value Well, there’s a new kid on the block and it’s something that will help protect your house value from further decline–should you need to sell soon. There is insurance for everything. Working Equity, Inc just unveiled a new product that works much like put options in the stock market, that’s why [...]

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Seeking Residual Income, Real Estate Investor Stumbles into the Information Age

11. November 2009

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Seeking Residual Income, Real Estate Investor Stumbles into the Information Age What’s all the hype about residual income? Well, there are only so many hours in a day to work, 24 to be exact, and if you derive all of your income from just those hours then you have to work a lot of hours [...]

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Are All Novice Real Estate Investors Seeking a Get Rich Quick “Fix?”

9. November 2009

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Are All Novice Real Estate Investors Seeking a Get Rich Quick “Fix?” What’s the allure of real estate investing? Why are so many people drawn to this field as a means of creating a second income? I think this is so primarily because it is sold as a get rich quick scheme. Have you ever [...]

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Foreclosure Prevention- A New Solution or a New Opportunity?

6. November 2009

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Foreclosure Prevention- A New Solution or a New Opportunity? With the number of foreclosures continuing to rise and not much relief in sight, the government and banks are scurrying around trying to create foreclosure prevention plans that will help reduce their losses. This new plan will allow homeowners to return ownership of their houses back [...]

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Southern California Real Estate in a State of Recovery or Further Decline?

3. November 2009

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Southern California Real Estate in a State of Recovery or Further Decline? Concerning California foreclosures, Bruce Norris is the leading expert in California on the state of the Southern California real estate market. He has followed 3 cycles and predicted this one. His insights are worth taking note of. If you live outside of California, [...]

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Client Made a 401K Withdrawal–Uninformed Realtor Causes Client to Pay $15,000 in Unnecessary Taxes

2. November 2009

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Client Made a 401K Withdrawal–Uninformed Realtor Causes Client to Pay $15,000 in Unnecessary Taxes I was sitting in the sauna a few weeks back, chatting with a fella who had just liquidated his 401k because he was sick and tired of the performance and so he decided to take action and buy an income property [...]

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Loan Modification Scams – No More!

20. October 2009

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Loan Modification Scams – No More! This new loan modification legislation in California, which prevents anyone from charging up-front fees, signals a big change to come in the foreclosure arena. I think this legislation will cause even more foreclosures down the line because home owners can’t do the negotiations themselves and no upfront fee [...]

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