Category: Real Estate
Zillow Zestimate: Should You Use It For Important Property Valuations?
Zillow.com is a popular website for many homeowners and those who intend to go to search for specific property valuations. But how accurate can an expert system that is fully computer generated be without the benefit of actually seeing the property in question, much less the comparables, or even the location? It was my brother-in-law…
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The AZ of Declared Income Loans
Here is the summary of reported income taxes, also called “no income verification loans” or “no documentation” loans. They sound wonderful, until you see the price. Here’s why they sound wonderful. You do not need to provide proof of employment or income verification. On the other hand, you don’t want to go through the 60-day…
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The Big Picture of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has a long history of gold production dating back many centuries and gold is by any estimate a mineral with the longest mining history in the country. The gold industry is characterized by large greenstone belts that support many small, privately owned mines. A 1995 United Nations working paper on gold mining in Zimbabwe…
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How to Quickly Build a Large Real Estate Portfolio Using Buy Rehab Rent Refinance and Repeat
How to Quickly Build a Large Real Estate Portfolio Using Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, and Repeat Strategies In this article, you will gain a complete understanding of how you can quickly build a large real estate portfolio using the buy, rehab, rent, refinance, and repeat method. This strategy was started by Danill Kleyman of True…
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The duty of confidentiality in the real estate sector
In any Listing Agreement there is a time when the relationship with the agency ends. A Listing Contract, as it is widely known, is none other than a contract between the legitimate owner of a participation in the land (the ‘Principal’) and a duly authorized real estate company (the ‘Agent’), by which the signing stipulates…
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The Versatility of Today’s Carriage House Plans
Originally, the term “carriage house” needed little explanation: it was a shed to house horse-drawn carriages. Today, however, the term has taken on a different meaning. Since the once ubiquitous carriage has little use in modern society, many of the carriage houses that were built before automobiles were common now have different uses. Many have…
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Secrets of a Millionaire Owner – Book Review
By: Robert Shemin, ESQ. (2002) ISBN 0-7931-4825-1 Book Price: $ 28.95 Outstanding real estate investor Robert Shemin is a nationally recognized landlord expert in the US and is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author who became a millionaire in his 30s by investing in real estate. Shem earned a law degree and an MBA from…
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Real estate investment: books, TV infomercials and seminars
Real estate investing has become popular today due to television real estate investing infomercials and traveling seminar circuits. But real estate investing has not always been so popular. In the 1960s, William Nickerson wrote: “How I turned $ 1000 into three million in real estate” and “How to make a fortune today from scratch.” It…
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The secret to increasing cash flow: investing in opportunity zones
A wise man will seize more opportunities than he finds. ~ Francis Bacon Introduction Don’t just look for homes that meet your criteria, look for the home that meets your criteria in places where people like to rent. There are nice areas in my city and not so nice areas in my city. However, neither…
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