Investment Financing

Creative financing options for purchasing pre-foreclosure homes.

Although it’s true it can be harder to find financing for Real Estate Owned (REO) properties compared to regularly listed properties, the banks owning them are very motivated to sell – especially if they own other properties in the area. Research shows that vacant properties reduce taxable value in the neighborhood – not to mention […]

The Fed plans to raise rates. Will higher mortgage rates and lower home prices require new investment strategies for real estate investors?

Inflation means higher prices, but also more homeowner equity, and can deliver profits over time to real estate investors.

Would reducing FHA premiums benefit home buyers and real estate investors who buy foreclosure homes?

Is it time for the FHA to insure loans for real estate investors who often buy foreclosure homes and distressed properties and add value to neighborhoods?

Mortgage rates should be lower. Not just because that would be great for real estate investors and homebuyers, but because lower rates better reflect financial realities. One of those realities is that mortgage rates have been artificially inflated as a result of the government’s needless .5% Adverse Market Refinance fee (AMR fee), a fee that […]

Payroll Protection Program (PPP) saved real estate investors. It kept 19 million people off unemployment — people thus had the ability to pay rent & mortgage

The real estate tax provision – stepped-up basis rule is getting a second look in DC. The concept could be changed & the size of the estate exclusion with it

Depending on your strategy to fix and flip or rent and hold here are some pointers to consider when evaluating old, new construction or built for rent properties