Real Estate Investing

My sister and I recently bought an investment property together. It’s a HUD foreclosure that we plan to rehab and flip over the next several months. I asked my sis if she would write a series of articles about the experience. She is going to give you all the details down to the penny. Here’s [...]

When first-time homebuyers finally close the deal on their first home, they are often so focused on the price of the home and the mortgage, that they forget about the other expenses involved with the closing process. Here we’ll take a look at some of the typical fees that often catch first-time homebuyers by surprise, [...]

Between February and August of this year, Coldwell Banker studied average home prices in nearly 300 markets where the firm operates. The firm tracked the average prices of four bedroom, two bathroom houses in markets across the United States. The resulting report shows huge differences across the US, with average prices for comparable homes ranging [...]

As if the sub-prime mortgage crisis followed by a collapse of the housing market wasn’t enough. Behold the foreclosure crisis sparked by Jeffrey Stephan, head of Ally’s (formerly GMAC) foreclosure document processing team. Stephan admitted under oath to having signed off on documents that he had not reviewed for 10,000 foreclosure cases per month for [...]