Archive for February, 2008

Landlords - Rent Fees Can Pay You Back

By Thomas Wheelwright
When you own rental property, you may spend money on advertising. Promoting the vacant site, whether in small print ads in newsletters, newspapers, magazines and the Web, or in big signs and billboards, can be a necessary expense. It’s also a deductible one. So are the expenses you incur to maintain your property […]

Buying A New Home, Should You Wait Or Purchase Now?

By Greg T Sullivan
Are you looking buy a new home due to a new job, a transfer or just because you are seeking a better neighborhood? If you are someone who has been keeping up on real estate news, the latest housing headlines are far from encouraging: Foreclosures are up, home prices are down and […]

All Agents Are Not Created Equally

By E Badgley
The term REALTORĀ® doesn’t just refer to anyone helping people to buy or sell homes. It is a trademark, registered with the National Association of REALTORSĀ® (NAR) , and can only be used to describe members of the NAR who have gone through accredited REALTORĀ® training. If you are looking for someone to […]

For Sale By Owner To Acquire Investment Property - Pros And Cons

By Craig A Williams
can’t tell you how many times someone came up to me and told me about a house in there neighborhood that is for sale by owner. They would say that I should go and look at it for a rental property. They usually make the assumption that the house will be a […]

List By Owner On The MLS

By Donald Plunkett
For years, extremely knowledgeable home sellers, people like commercial real estate agents, real estate attorneys, and former residential agents would contact their friends in the residential real estate business, asking them to cut a deal. “Just put me in the Multiple Listing Service (back then it might have been referred to as the […]