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Self Directed IRA Companies are Coming into Fashion Whether your intention is to use your retirements funds to buy real estate or other assets, it’s always a good idea to interview who you will be working with and compare the different companies.  Also when determining who to work with to set up your self directing [...]

Free, Live, 4 Part Series:Social Media 101 for Small Business ALTHOUGH THIS EVENT HAS PASSED, YOU CAN STILL GET THE SLIDES OF THE EVENT BY SUBSCRIBING TO IT HERE: Practical  Day-to-Day Ways to Accelerate Your Business How do you get found online and cut your advertising costs? How can you use Facebook safely for your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rocking Angel Megan McGinnis in Palmdale with the Poppies Be sure to check out our new TV show on Facebook and on our new blog….. where you will learn social media secrets!  Woo woo!  Peace, Megan Rocking Angels Blog Rocking Angels on Facebook Share and Enjoy: Sphere: Related Content

Branding Yourself Online through Social Media Ok, lesson number one:  Define yourself from the very beginning and stick to it.  You must create a brand and use it everywhere so that you will be recognized.  McDonald’s didn’t open it’s doors, call themselves the Boozo Burger and then later c ome up with McDonald’s.  They figured [...]

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 [...]

A Brave Stand For Human Rights by Irom Sharmila Chanu Sometimes it’s important to use my position to draw attention to important things that go on in the world that are sometimes left unheralded.  I cam across the story of a hunger striker in India that captured my attention and I want to introduce you [...]

Press Release Marketing to Increase Blog Traffic Press releases are a common form of announcing something professional happening: when you accept a new position, get a promotion, receive an award– it’s always recommended you toot your own horn and announce these personal benchmarks via a press release.  Now you can do the same thing online.  [...]

Wall Street Journal Names Top 5 Tax Blogs For tax help consult these tax experts: 1. TaxProf Blog: Penned by Paul Caron, a law professor at the University of Cincinnati, this blog offers a diverse menu of industry news, event updates from coast to coast, and stories worth a second glance. 2. Tax Policy Blog [...]

Using Article Distribution to Increase Your Blog Traffic Ok, so I’m not featured in this video like I was in the other one but as you can see by my Ezine Article box on the right, I get this tip well and have added it to my social media toolbox.  I’m an expert author already!  [...]

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 [...]

Reverse Mortgage Pitfalls Revealed With babby boomers on the verge of retirement, seniors living longer and longer and an increasing loss in retirement accounts, families are looking for ways to help Grandma and Grandpa live independently and financially free for the rest of their lives.  They, both the Grandparents and their adult children, are turning [...]

How to Get Targeted Traffic to Your Blog Rocking Mike Ballantyne is my social media mentor (and you know he’s good because he’s not even the legal drinking age yet!) and it’s from him I’ve learned many of my blogging-insider-tricks.  If you are a beginning  blogger and want to learn how to drive some traffic [...]

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 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 [...]

Top 5 Credit Repair Experts on Twitter 1. D Ruiz | ( ihavegoodcredit on Twitter ) Guru of Credit (26yrs!) Please read my FAVORITES. You found it, the REAL DEAL of credit repair, Author, Visionary, Father, Husband, Friend and Philanthropist Followers: 19,012 Location: Las Vegas, NV 2. George T | ( George_Tr on Twitter ) [...]

2010 New Year’s Resolutions HANDBOOK 2010 Health : 1.       Drink plenty of water. 2.       Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. 3.       Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Agony of Defeat Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill It’s a new year.  Let’s [...]

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 [...]

Twitter-nomics: Is Twitter Successful? This article was brought to my attention by my friend Chad Briggs on his blog. It’s a very interesting discussion about the growth of Twitter and its economics.  Like the dot com craze, the question is asked “How do they make money & will they be profitable.”  These are addressed in [...]