A mentor can be one of the nation’s foremost authorities on creative commercial real estate investing techniques, but much of that knowledge and experience is pointless if you’re primarily interested in foreclosures, short sales, or rehabbing abandoned properties.

BDG is currently exploring forming a new fund to continue compiling their own portfolio of distressed real estate assets and debt.

So the treasury buys this loan and then, if I am hearing the plan correctly, will wait for the market to rebound and then sell the asset so that banks don't have to deal with "firesale" prices aka the actual prices of these assets.

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An umbrella means that your various loss exposures are all put under the same umbrella, not that you need a separate umbrella over each exposure.Unless you also have an umbrella over each of your vehicles and boats, I'd say you're UNDERinsured.Look at your net worth, assets minus liabilities, that how much liabilitiy insurance you need.

Got word today that the asset manager had a conference and also a death in the family and has just returned.

You get the opportunity to establish a presence inside a captive audience (this is especially good for product marketers, website developers, book authors, real estate experts or coaches, etc.)

But I can tell you one thing, they are coming after any asset you have....They are looking for you to get some "skin in the game".Then again, she could just be saying that to keep the money coming inYou got that right.

The government is in the process of attempting to PROP UP asset values.

A Broker Price Opinion is essentially the same thing as an appraisal or a realtor's CMA (comparative market analysis).It will just give you an opinion of value for a specific property at a specific time.Banks order Broker Price Opinions for several reasons, to include:-pre foreclosure-pre auction-asset protection