Successful real estate investors need to know what is happening in the housing economics sector. This facet of the economy has several factors that can influence your decisions. Here is a set of databases and sources that will keep you informed about what is happening in the housing market.
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Cost of living comparison
ACCRA Cost of [...]
Identify Your Biggest Dream
A young woman wrote to me recently, telling me that her whole life had taken a different turn since she heard me ask the question, “What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail?”
She wrote that, up to that time, this was a question [...]
Review your performance. Whether it’s communication, whether it’s activity, whether it’s a CEO, whether it’s on the job. Here’s what my father said, “Always do more than you are paid for to make an investment in your future.” Now some unions would argue with that. My father was so unique. Review your performance–your language with [...]
Housing prices have started to inch up again in the nation’s most overvalued bi-coastal markets after a brief decline late in 2005. The increases over the last month are small, usually 1% to 1.5%. Nevertheless, according to a report issued in early April by the PMI Group office in Walnut Creek CA, the risk of [...]
Last month, we discussed a new law in Maryland that prevents homeowners in a bind from entering into the best contract for their personal circumstances.
This month we’ll take a look at a new law in Texas that hamstrings investors who want to resell a property on a lease option or land contract, and pending legislation [...]
Back in October of 2003 in my “Who Can You Call?” column, I wrote an extensive review of the Federal Trade Commission implementation of a Do Not Call registry aimed at protecting consumers from annoying telemarketing calls.
This measure was, as one could expect, immediately challenged by the Association of Telemarketers and the Direct Marketing Association. They [...]
