Archive for May, 2008

Pay Down The Credit Cards or Buy An Investment Property?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

If you’re new here (and you like what you read), you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!  ScottChris over at Kansas City Real Estate Investing has a great post that many people don’t think about. Go on over and check out why it may be better to pay […]

Foreclosures and Then Some

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Everything you ever wanted to know about Foreclosures, but was afraid to ask!
Previously, I have written a couple posts about foreclosures, especially how they relate to investment properties. Most of my topic was information I have gleaned from training and talking with other agents.  I came across a monster of a resource regarding […]

Tenant Application-Red Flags Example

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Here is an example of a recent email exchange that I had with someone interested in my 2 bedroom plus loft, new construction townhouse in Forest Lake, MN. I was using Craig’s List to rent this property. I decided to post the exchange so you can notice the interesting way they are trying […]

Done With Short Sales

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I probably look at 100 investment properties per week on a busy week. These days, 90% of the properties I tour are bank owned or REO properties. Every so often one comes up that is a short sale. Initially, I was pretty excited by short sales. Here were properties that were […]

Don’t Just Let Yourself In To Your Investment Property

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Amy Dickinson is a great read over at the Star Tribune. She writes a column called Rent in the Homes section and takes email questions from readers and answers them.  I suppose you could say she is kind of like a Dear Abby for renters and landlords!
A recent one article I found funny and […]

Stupid Property Repairs #4.5

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

After last week’s Stupid Property Repair #4, it seems to be the week for notches out of doors. This next one I just found at very nice, but vacant single family house in St. Paul. This property could be a good investment for a single family rental as it was priced at $165k.
I […]