investing: September Arizona Real Estate Investment Club Meeting - September 17 - 09/05/08 06:34 PM
Gentry Real Estate & Investments (and friends) will be discussing recent changes facing today’s real estate investor.
Freddie Mac is capping investors to 4 properties on their credit report. This is pushing the investors and homeowners in the direction of creative/seller financing.
Join us as our guest speakers explain … (6 comments)
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investing: What the Investors Want - Phoenix Metro Update - 09/05/08 02:27 PM
The Latest Trends in Arizona Real Estate Investing (September 2008)
Real Estate has seasons. Most agents will be able to tell you when the buyers tend to show up and when they tend to slow down.
The market has fluctuations. Sometimes we're in a buyer's market- other times sellers … (7 comments)
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investing: Investment Properties- Short, Medium & Long Term Strategies - 07/19/08 05:32 PM
Since the market is ever-changing, it's nice to have several different investment vehicles. There is a time value to investing. It's always good to find strategies that can pay off in the short, medium and long term.
Among the activities many investors employ are these.
Short-term: Currently, there are … (4 comments)
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investing: What's Your Opinion: Which Wins- Cash Flow or Equity? - 06/01/08 07:24 PM
There's a debate going on among real estate investors.
And the answer changes depending on the month, week or even time of day.
So... without explaining my take on this, I though I'd ask the universe this question:
If you could only have one thing from your real estate … (8 comments)
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investing: Arizona's Top Five Real Estate Investing Options - 05/30/08 05:28 PM
This is part III (the final section) of a series I wrote for publication regarding the Phoenix real estate investor market. I was asked the question: What are the best opportunities for real estate investment, why?
I responded that my clients are currently finding most success in these sectors:
Any area … (2 comments)
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investing: The Phoenix Rising- An Investor Speculation - 05/30/08 02:15 PM
As many real estate investors have noticed, the housing market hit critical mass a few years ago... the access to easy money and a wild upswing in potential equity creation brought a great excitement to the market.
Speculators arrived- both seasoned and new. Fortunes were gained and lost.
Now the challenge … (0 comments)
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investing: Preparation for Growth in a Down Market- A Look at Phoenix Arizona - 05/29/08 04:17 PM
I don’t know who first said it, but there’s a phrase thrown around town to describe Phoenix - It’s that “the business of Phoenix is growth.”
I'm Chuck Willman, a real estate agent based in the Phoenix metro area. Here's Part I of a series I wrote for publication … (4 comments)
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investing: Come Join Gentry Realty on May 21 for an Investor Seminar in Scottsdale Arizona - 05/10/08 07:30 PM
Gentry
Realty has worked on this seminar for almost a year.
Join
Gentry Real Estate & Investments (and friends) on May 21st
as we
will be sharing our criteria on how to analyze the right markets and
the right
property for your investment portfolio. Here are a few … (5 comments)
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investing: Map Housing & Transportation Costs for Your Area - 04/28/08 06:44 PM
It's the modern home buyer quandry:
Do I want to pay more for the home to live closer work/school?
or
Do I want to pay less to live further away?
Lately I'm performing the following searches:
Homes close to work/school (usually re-sale)
Homes further away at bargain value pricing (often … (17 comments)
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investing: Very Cool Investment Information Resources- The Wikipedias of Data - 04/27/08 11:55 AM
How many of you have gone to Wikipedia for "the gist" of a topic?
Raise your hands, people... ok that makes close to 85,000 of you.
Well... the "next big thing" in the web info arena (according to me) is, ready for it?
Data - more accurately... Smart Data. Raw … (7 comments)
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investing: Finding the Good in Bad News - 03/18/08 07:20 PM
Today the Fed cut the overnight lending rate by .75 points.
The stock market responded with the highest gains in five years.
A reporter has a choice:
Explain the pitiful state of the economy that requires such drastic measures.
Analyze the the move as a demonstration that there are still … (7 comments)
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investing: Personal Finance Tips- From Negative to Positive Net Worth - 03/15/08 03:25 PM
A couple graduated college with a combined debt load of $40,000.
Five years they had a net worth of over $285,000.
Not bad, right?
You can read about it here: How My Net Worth Went from $-40,000 to $285,000 in Five Years.
Here's the shortcut: "we systematically controlled our spending so … (5 comments)
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investing: Q: How's the Market? A: Which One? - 03/12/08 05:55 PM
When people find out I work in real estate they make that concerned/contorted expression and wincingly ask, "How's the market?"
I try not to make it sound like a knee-jerk response, but I have to clarify with another question, "Which One?"
The markets I'm in are good. The ones I'm … (10 comments)
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investing: What is the Secret? shhhhhhh..... I have the answer. - 03/12/08 02:49 PM
Like many of you, I've read the book, "The Secret".
I like the message that positivity or, maybe more importantly, shunning negativity puts you into the karmic slipstream of success.
However, there's not much positive math to that formula.
I work with investors.
They know math.
They have a bottom line. … (7 comments)
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investing: 10 Best Places for House Bargains- Phoenix #5 - 02/11/08 12:02 PM
Phoenix Skyline by Bradley Cooper
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Realtor.org has an interesting report today that links to a Forbes article by Matt Woolsey about the Ten best cites for bargain hunters.
The top five are:
Salt Lake City, UT
Raleigh, NC
Orlando, FL
Charlotte, NC
Phoenix, AZ
Let's focus on Phoenix. … (6 comments)
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investing: Is this a Good Deal? New Homes as an Investment - 02/05/08 05:34 PM
"Is this a good Deal?" The investor asked me as we looked at a model home. I replied that it is and then did the research to back it up. Here's a simple way to verify the "deal" status of a new home.The investment buyer will want to know two … (1 comments)
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investing: Nationwide Network of Real Estate Investors - 01/31/08 02:59 PM
Although I have been concentrating most of my efforts on the Phoenix, Arizona metro area, I have been interacting with more and more agents from around the country who are interested in referring investors to the area.
Likewise I've been able to send investment minded individuals to other areas of … (2 comments)
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investing: Single Family Home by Arizona State University- Great Investment Possibility - 01/30/08 02:36 PM
One block from ASU (walking distance)
3 bedroom/1ba (two bath would be nice but almost no homes in neighborhood have that).
Rarely are homes available in this neighborhood. (10 listings in two years).
It's in the historic district and is priced at $145K. My guess is that it needs about $15k … (0 comments)
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investing: SilverLinings: New Home Inventories Declining - 12/28/07 03:42 PM
What's a real estate investor to do?
Applying the "buy low sell high" rule to today's market is a simple task. One must glean the good news from the bad. Sometimes it's easy... as is the case in today's Wall Street Journal (Dec. 28, 2007, C1). The Title? "New Homes … (1 comments)
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investing: The Magic Percentage - 09/28/07 05:02 PM
Statistics. They can be twisted almost any which way- can't they?
That's why due diligence is so important. It's always good to distill the complicated down to the simple.
Which begs the question- is there some simple math that you apply as a starting point to any business venture?
Almost everyone … (1 comments)
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