The decision to buy a home is a big one. Making the best decision on buying a home has a lot to do with timing. But when is the best time to buy a home? There are several factors that will affect the answer for you specifically, but this article should set some background and…
The real estate industry has changed a ton in the past two decades, especially when it comes to access to information and tools for both buyers and sellers of land, homes, and other property. If you’ve done much with real estate in the past decade, you’re probably familiar with Zillow. Zillow started out as a…
If you live anywhere along the I-15 corridor in Utah, specifically in Salt Lake and Utah counties, you’ve likely seen all the signs along the highway popping up touting the ability to sell your home without broker commissions, potentially saving tens of thousands of dollars by going around the traditional process of listing your home…
Article Summary This article discusses my experience with real estate agents and the way they typically do marketing, most often online. More importantly, I present a checklist of items any real estate agent can do to build an online pipeline of client leads to grow a business helping people buy and sell homes. Here is…
One of the resources I’ve begun using as I’ve waded into the waters of real estate investing is an organization called BiggerPockets, which was created to encourage real estate investment by building a community and disseminating educational and other information about how to go about real estate investment. Probably the biggest hurdle (outside of having…
The past 20 years of my career (pretty much my entire career) have been spent primarily building online businesses, including projects like this website. I’ve had more success earning money than I could have ever imagined when I started close 20 years ago, but I have had this nagging feeling throughout the last 10-15 years…
Normally, when someone purchases a home in Utah, the transaction is initiated using a real estate purchase contract, or REPC. In the majority of home purchases, the home is already constructed and is usually being lived in. The standard REPC document is designed to facilitate the buyer’s offer to purchase, the seller’s acceptance, and several…
My excitement at buying an investment property ran into a snag one morning when I attempted to send over a wire to pay for the property. Chase bank places has a limit on how much can be wired from a personal account. As any investor knows, when closing day comes, having the funds available to…
For several years, I’ve been interested in getting into real estate investing. My internet businesses have done well enough for me to save up some cash that I can use to start looking at properties and getting my feet wet with some real estate investments. I’ve been looking at purchasing some property in Tennessee recently…
The majority real estate transactions involve at least one real estate agent. Often, the seller of a piece of property hires an agent to represent his interests in selling the property for the highest price possible while striving to achieve the best terms for the seller. For a buyer or real estate, an agent is…