Should You buy a Vacation Home?
Starting in 4th quarter last year, vacation home sales started to pick up around the nation. Although still not back where they were in 2006, it is a promising sign. With a large contingent...
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Real Estate Investing – Get Better Cash Flow from your Rental Properties
If you own rental real estate, you know how vital it is to have a positive cash flow from your properties. With a positive cash flow, you can weather a down real estate market,...
Women Investors
Who makes the investment decisions at your house? How are your financial duties divided up between your spouse and you? If you manage the day to day money and hubby deals with investments, you...
US Government Plans to Create Potter’s Field
CNN is reporting that the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, HUD, FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) are cooking up a pilot program to to sell...
Real Estate Mistakes – Buying Before Construction
Real estate investment mistakes can be costly, and I almost made a big mistake and did make a whopper – from which I thankfully recovered. When buying real estate, most people know to write...
American Farmland – an Alternative Investment!
Several days ago I did some research to learn a bit about alternative investments in farmland. For about five years institutional and accredited private investors have been putting money into funds that buy and...
Farmland Alternative Investments
Investors have been pouring money into farmland – especially Midwest USA land for the past few years. So much so,that the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported that fourth quarter 2010 prices for...
Tax Lien Certificate Sale – What Happened to the Properties?
This is the very last post (for this year’s sale!) of my continuing saga describing the tax lien certificate sale in my county. In my previous post – Tax Lien Auction Sale – Who Are These...
Tax Lien Certificate Auction Sale – Who Are These Bidders?
This post is part of my continuing saga describing the tax lien certificate sale in my county. In my last post Tax Lien Sale Day, I shared observations on how the sale was run...
Tax Lien Certificate Sale Day
It was a rainy morning and I overslept, but I hopped in the car and drove up to the county office complex to sit in on the tax lien certificate auction anyway. The sale...
