Real Estate
The best time to buy a home is always fiver years ago.
Ray Brown [Jazz Musician Double Bassist]
Real Estate
Real estate transactions usually affect your finances with the largest impact. Most often, the home a person owns is one of his biggest investments. Understanding the various aspects of real estate allows you to make good decisions as they affect your own net worth your ability to provide for yourself and others.
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Greenbelt Laws Can Lower Taxes for Qualifying Agricultural Properties
If you're thinking of buying a rural property, you might want to consider the local greenbelt laws in the area where you're planning to buy. It may be worth making sure that your property and the way that you intend to use it will qualify for greenbelt exemption from...
How Accurate are Zillow’s Zestimate Home Value Estimates?
Article Summary Zillows Zestimate home value estimates are calculated using a combination of historical transactions for each piece of real estate (nearly 100 million homes and lots) included in its database and a proprietary algorithm developed by Zillow that uses...
How to Invest in Construction Hard Money Lending Backed by Real Estate
One of the benefits of working hard and getting ahead is having the opportunity to invest some of your hard-earned money into something that will produce more money. As my career developed, my businesses grew over a 10 year period, and I found myself having more and...
When is the Best Time to Buy a House?
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...
Zillow: the Real Estate Information Portal and Marketplace
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...
Homie Review – Selling My Home Using Utah’s New Disruptive Real Estate Broker
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...
Real Estate Agent Internet Marketing and Lead Generation Guide
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...
Top Real Estate Investment Books Recommended by BiggerPockets
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...
Investing in Nightly Vacation Rental Real Estate: My Own Rookie Experience
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...
Utah New Construction Real Estate Purchase Contract
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...
Chase Bank Limit on Wire Transfers from Personal Accounts – $50,000
My excitement at buying an investment property ran into a snag this 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. When I attempted to create the wire transfer to...
How To Buy a Home Foreclosure At An Auction
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...
Real Estate Agent Fiduciary Obligations: Should I Hire a Realtor?
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...
Tennessee Real Estate Contracts and Forms for Residential Homes
Living in Tennessee is a good decision for lots of reasons. There are several great places to call home in the Volunteer State. Whether you choose to live in some of the more populated areas around Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and other...
Getting a Home Loan with Bad Credit
One of the primary factors lenders consider when you apply for a mortgage is your credit score. They normally use what’s called a FICO score, which is a number that ranges between 300 and 850. Lenders use this number to assess your trustworthiness, as it...
FHA Loan Debt to Income (DTI) Ratio Guidelines
FHA Loan Debt to Income (DTI) Ratio Guidelines FHA loans allow first time home buyers and others who are just starting out or who may be financially disadvantaged to purchase homes through a government assisted program that differs from conventional loans....
Are We Currently Experiencing A Real Estate Bubble?
Article Summary The current housing market in the US has made its way back to pre-Great Recession levels. Interest rates are rising, which will tend to cool off the increasing housing prices. Significant factors that will cause a market correction in the...
What Are Real Estate Disclosure Laws?
When a real estate transaction is taking place, the details of the transaction, especially the agreed upon price for the property, are based upon assumptions made by the buyer regarding the condition of the property being purchased. It can be easy for the...
