Commercial Real Estate Investment Articles

Should you REhab or PREhab? Most real estate investors have heard about (and many have participated in) a REhab. Made famous by reality TV shows, a REhab is when a real estate investor renovates a dilapidated property into a sparkling home, so it can be sold to a retail buyer.

Have you joined the masses and become a smartphone or tablet junkie? If so, there are a ton of great applications for real estate investors that will help you improve your ability to quickly access information right on your smartphone or tablet.

Every successful real estate investor needs a source of private lenders. When you can find great properties at low prices, you need money fast. Waiting is just not an option.

The IRS has been stepping up their audits of anyone who takes a real estate loss on their tax returns. Some of their arguments against the taxpayers are valid and a lot of them are not. Here are some of the recent challenges to the real estate professional status by the IRS and what you can do about it.

Would you like to be more productive? The most successful people in the world have the same amount of time in a day as you do. You’re about to discover a simple way to be more productive. Plus, this technique can relieve stress, reduce headaches, and help you achieve your goals faster.

Marketing is the most important part of every business. Here’s my Top 10 List of Ways to Market Your Real Estate Investing Business.

One of the best things about investing in real estate is the ability to leverage the investment. Other investments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and gold cannot be leveraged effectively.

Are you maximizing your tax savings in your real estate investing business? Now is a great time for you to make sure you have structured your investing operation properly, so you take full advantage of the tax benefits of being a real estate investor.

Should you invest in foreclosures right now? Maybe. There are several factors to consider.

If you or anyone you know had a mortgage in the foreclosure process in 2009 or 2010 on a primary residence, and it was serviced by one of 27 companies, including Bank of America, JP Morgan, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo, you may have money waiting for you.

Real estate investors should always focus on effective marketing. Marketing to find motivated sellers, marketing to find great tenants, marketing to build a wholesale buyers list, marketing for private lenders, and marketing to sell houses.

You must pass both tests to take advantage of the “real estate professional” tax deduction. In this article, we’re going to talk about some details of one of the real estate professional deduction requirements. The issue is something called the material participation test.

One of the hottest real estate tax strategies is the Real Estate Professional. The IRS is on to this one, though, so make sure you follow the rules.

One of the biggest fears faced by real estate investors is the fear of failure. I’ve seen a lot of novice real estate investors fail. Most of them fail to get started and never get out of the gate because they allow fear to stop them from trying. This is perfectly normal. But now is the time to stop worrying and get out there. Real estate investing is like learning how to hit a baseball. At first you are scared and you can’t hit anything. But the more practice swings you take, the more likely you are to hit one out of the park. So get out there and start swinging. See if any of the following reasons real estate investors fail to act are holding you back, and take steps to correct it.

Do you remember the Clint Eastwood western movie, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”? Renting to Section 8 tenants is pretty much the same. Some landlords love Section 8, and some landlords try it and find it’s bad and ugly to deal with.

I get a lot of questions about marketing on the internet. After all, the online market is massive no matter what product we are talking about. Web-based marketing is good, but for real estate you need to get your message out to your local area.

You’re tired of working for money and have decided you want money working for you. You want a monthly income stream that doesn’t require you to be anywhere on a schedule. You want the income stream to be safe, dependable, tax-free, in your control, grow in value over time, and be something real you can touch and feel–unlike digits in a bank account or pieces of paper that claim to have value.

As real estate investors, building a portfolio of rentals is the single biggest wealth-creating opportunity of our lifetime.

I am a full-time real estate investor and generally a lazy person. I found that when I embraced my lazy side, and stopped trying to do everything myself, that my real estate investing really took off, and I started making real money.

While many people think short sales are a lost technique or too difficult to do, they really are as strong as ever. Just watch your step and do them right.

Mobile home parks are tremendous investments, but how do you find the motivated sellers that make profitable deals possible?

Real estate tax can be tricky. One of the first challenges is determining what kind of definition the IRS gives you. There are five terms you need to know:

Today’s real estate market has created excellent opportunities for real estate investors to work directly with motivated sellers. These are distressed sellers with a variety of life challenges such as job loss, divorce, or medical challenges. They might be out-of-town sellers with equity, burned-out landlords, or dealing with probate.

Mobile home parks are tremendous investments, but how do you find the motivated seller that make profitable deals possible?

There are three big reasons why people invest in real estate: cash flow, capital appreciation, and the tax breaks. Today we’re talking about how real estate can create losses that put money in your pocket.