For any real estate investor, especially those in the foreclosure investment market, it’s essential to know which way the housing market winds are blowing at both national and local levels.
The National Association of Realtors provides ongoing research to keep us informed of market changes. Below you’ll find links to valuable resources that will help you [...]
Yearly Archives: 2005
Economic and Housing Data
December 1, 2005 – 2:36 pm
Be An Optimist At All Times
December 1, 2005 – 2:35 pm
Everyone wants to be physically healthy. You want to be mentally healthy as well. The true measure of “mental fitness” is how optimistic you are about yourself and your life.
In this newsletter, you learn how to control your thinking in very specific ways so that you feel terrific about yourself and your situation, no matter [...]
Success is Easy, But So is Neglect
December 1, 2005 – 2:34 pm
People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change [...]
The View from the Top
December 1, 2005 – 2:33 pm
The bi-coastal housing markets are like a person standing on the North Pole. No matter which way he moves, he’s heading south. While the third quarter numbers for price appreciation remained strong in most metro areas, there are other harbingers that indicate the record run-up of recent years is ending.
For example, the National Association of [...]
Dirty Deeds: Abuses and Fraudulent Practices in the Home Equity Market Part 1 of 3 parts
December 1, 2005 – 2:29 pm
As we’ve often said, whenever money and property are involved, you’ll find sharks in the water. Some of the worst are those that purport to “rescue” distressed homeowners whose mortgages are in default, but actually are out to steal the homes. Or they strip the hapless homeowners of any equity or money they may have [...]
Weeding Your Leads Has Never Been Easier!
December 1, 2005 – 2:24 pm
You are a real estate investor. Your goal is to buy great property at a discount in your neighborhood at the lowest possible price. So you target foreclosures, right? Of course!
First you must find complete foreclosure information for your area. And now that ForeclosureS.com is Nationwide – you can gain access to the Oldest, Most Reliable, [...]
Buying? Now’s a Good Time 10 benefits of buying at the end of the year
November 1, 2005 – 2:50 pm
With interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages still hovering at around 6 percent, the end of the year is a great time for renters to become homeowners, growing families to move to more accommodating homes, and Baby Boomers to find houses that fit their evolving lifestyles.
In addition to low interest rates, there are other benefits [...]
The Time to Act
November 1, 2005 – 2:49 pm
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either. Here’s the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong.
Let’s say you would like to build your library. [...]
Success/Failure
November 1, 2005 – 2:47 pm
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should [...]
Bubble (or Just Froth) Update
November 1, 2005 – 2:46 pm
First of all, we don’t think the term “bubble” really fits the situation we see in U.S. housing markets today. That implies that an explosion (or implosion) is about to take place and that home prices will change radically almost overnight. As we mentioned last moth, that’s not what’s happening.Some of the bubbleheads keep referring [...]
