Category Archives: Investing in Real Estate
FHA Gets Serious About Dealing With Foreclosures
Most home buyers don’t know what many investor buyers have faced for years: the requirement from FHA that a house be “held” by an investor for 90 days before being resold. For an investor who wants to buy a foreclosed property, fix it, then resell it or “flip” it, this requirement adds thousands of dollars [...]
Investing Opportunities in Real Estate
It’s time for me to get into the real estate investing game.
Anatomy of a Scam
One way to make money in real estate is to find an appraiser who will inflate the value of your property and then sell it to some unsuspecting buyer–usually an investor. The problem with this strategy is that it is fraud, and it can land you in prison. In the boom times of a few [...]
China’s agressive growth; the impact on new home materials
How the building boom in China will impact prices of new and existing homes in the US