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23 March 2011 | 22 replies
All gurus talk about bandit signs as if it pulls so good results it could be your only marketing media.
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26 January 2010 | 1 reply
Indymac is the holder of the loan, and I started doing impounds last year to spread out the taxes.
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26 March 2010 | 57 replies
So Jon, ,with you making so many offers, you must spread these over a large number of listing agents.
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10 February 2010 | 3 replies
If the second wants more than what the 1st is willing to pay, then you may have to come up with that out of your spread.
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17 February 2010 | 15 replies
Foreclosures take a long time.I'm in favor of spreading the foreclosures out as long as possible.
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15 February 2010 | 7 replies
-Abolition of property rights -More government control -Inability to sell a second home with seller finance -Loss of ability to buy a property and resell w/spread if it's not a primary residence.
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19 February 2010 | 2 replies
example:i get an optionto buy from a homeowner for 115ki give an option to a tenant buyer for 130ki make an option fee of $5000i make $200 cashflow a monthmy tenant buyer eventually wants to exercise their optionis there a way that i can make the 15k spread in the deal when he buys?
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20 February 2010 | 1 reply
You can locate deals with a larger spread.
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23 February 2010 | 0 replies
I have recently purchased two foreclosures in Maryland. I feel like I am getting the run around from the Trustees, Court Houses, and the auctioneers as to who is responsible to make the next step. Time is my money a...
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4 March 2010 | 44 replies
In my experience, most investors who are willing to accept high interest rates (and lots of points) haven't done a very good job of analyzing how the deal will be affected by the high costs of financing, and when they're in the middle of the project and realize that they're spread much more thin than they thought, they start to cut corners.