Imagine a real estate investing niche fueled by society’s demand for higher education, then factor in a government unable to meet the housing demand, created by an endless drumbeat of “you’ve got to go to college or you’ll be a miserable failure in life” messages... [...more]
On the hunt for a new home? Now you have yet another tool at your disposal. In an interesting twist, at least in my opinion, an internet website has gone “old school” to reach even more households - they now have a television “show”! [...more]
It's not the HARP 3.0 rumored to be in the pipeline, but the Responsible Homeowners Refinancing Act of 2012 would boost HARP 2.0 and provide additional refinance relief for households struggling to make the mortgage payment. [...more]
Are you using Google+ hangouts for your business? Seriously, when I first heard about this new tool I thought to myself, yeah, just what we need, another social media option. From Vimeo, to Hulu to YouTube, to Facebook and a whole host of other options, did we really need another way to share content with our followers? [...more]
Election season is on the horizon, with the most coveted job in the United States once again up for grabs. Republican Mitt Romney is going all out in his bid to unseat President Obama from the White House, spending a whopping $78,624,564 in his campaign so far, according to the Federal Election Commission. [...more]
Studies have documented a correlation between foreclosures and everything from nausea, fevers and abdominal pain to hypertension, depression, chest pain and diabetes - in adults. Children, however, have been the unseen victims of a lost home - until now... [...more]
Today's housing market is evolving, and many of the changes we are seeing now are unlikely to go away any time soon. Today, we examine five rising trends that are set to become the new "normal" in the majority of US housing markets in the months and years to come. [...more]
Finding a good realtor, one that you can really “click” with, is a bit like finding the right person to marry - takes a bit of searching, perhaps you kiss a few toads, but one day, you meet the right one, and “bam”, it’s simpatico! [...more]
Realty Trac released their latest report on foreclosure activity. They use the term "mixed" to describe the results. While that is generally true, the real story is found in the states where the cities in the report are located. Those cities showing increases in foreclosure activity are located in "Judicial Foreclosure" states [...more]
Most probably, you believe that Isaac Newtown’s law of gravity is an irrefutable truth – whatever goes up, simply must come down at some point right? Probably so, but while the laws of physics cannot be denied forever, we can always put them off for a few years, just as these rather precarious looking homes will demonstrate… [...more]