Real Estate Investing in the Real World

Today Pat Vredevoogd Combs, president of the National Association of Realtors, issued a statement in favor of H.R. 111, the Community Choice in Real Estate Act (CCR).  This was a pretty fluffy statement, even by NAR press release standards, but I guess you can't blame him for jumping in and suppo...

My wife belongs to our local businesswoman's association.  She's in the medical field.  She doesn't attend meetings religiously, but she shows up from time to time.  The makeup of the group doesn't vary much.  There are a smattering a small business owners.  There's a good dose of financial advis...

Another post from an investor's perspective.  The lexicon of marketing jagon came up with the "leading edge vs. bleeding edge" concept a few years ago.  The first guys out of the gate often get chewed up, while the fast-followers hop in once the market has been primed.  Anyone out there remember ...

Real estate agents who deal with investors will encounter clients with all sorts of ideas - some of the ill-informed.  Here are a few that I've run into.Myth #1:  You have to be a slave to your properties.I find it interesting that one finds so many references in the popular press about the horro...

Happy holidays from our family to yours.  Real estate agents are our livelihood at EquityScout.com.  I have not been a member of the ActiveRain community for long, but in the short time I've been around I've gotten a lot out of interacting with the professionals on this forum.  I hope to see the ...

Many of the concepts of business are universal.  Fields as different as Real Estate and Medicine have more in common that you might think at first glance.  Take it from me - I have a foot in both camps.  My wife is a physician - an obstetrician/gynecologyst - and over the past three years she's b...

Global Insight today released it's analysis of data released by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), which covers both regional and national trends in residential real estate pricing.  The main conclusion of the study is that the overall level of valuation is starting to ea...

This is the third in a four part series for Real Estate Agents on Dealing with Real Estate Investors.  In previous EquityScout posts I investigated what investors are looking for in a real estate agent and why real estate agents should care about investors.  Here's part three:  what kind of inves...

Ok I got tagged in the meme-go-round.  If you are reading this chances are that you know what this means by now, but if not you can read the original post .  So...for your reading enjoyment...five things you didn't know about me.1)  I was a computer nerd early on, starting out with a TRS 80 and a...

Not too long ago I wrote a Five Tips for Realtors® post on What Real Estate Investors Look for in a Realtor.  This is a follow-on to those ideas, and I'll try to address the question of why should realtors care about what real estate investors look for in a realtor.  Or - more diplomatically put ...