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Things every investor should be aware of when financing investment properties   As lending guidelines continue to become more stringent, real estate investors are facing new challenges everyday. It's now more important than ever to team up with a professional mortgage consultant that has an in de...

Things every investor should be aware of when financing investment properties   As lending guidelines continue to become more stringent, real estate investors are facing new challenges everyday. It's now more important than ever to team up with a professional mortgage consultant that has an in de...

For those of you have have been following the court case against Nehemiah (the downpayment assistance organization) and HUD, I just received this letter from the president of Nehemiah  "We are thrilled with the Court's decision to support low-to-moderate income families across the country by ruli...

In my opinion... The light at the end of the tunnel is the market becoming aware of all the bargains out there.  I foresee that this will be a great correction for many because the market has suffered so much that the swing to the other-side will be greater.  When the buyers flood the areas that ...

Here we are at the start of another week.  Let's all make something great out of it!  Here are a couple of sayings to get you start and pumped up!Zig ZiglarPositive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. POSITIVE thinking will let you do everything better than neg...

I was delighted to read in our local Sunday paper today that new home building permits are up to there third highest level in the last ten years!  That's a blessing!  Although Crown Point has been around for over a century, there is so much development springing up lately.  Commercial is really b...

Well this was a neat little thing to come across in the paper yesterday.  CROWN POINT | Johnny Depp, aka John Dillinger in the Universal film "Public Enemies," is hitting Crown Point this spring reportedly to reprise the gangster's bold 1934 escape from Lake County Jail.  The scene will be shot o...

While researching areas across the nation, I noticed that the rental market in New York is huge.  We've had a very strong market here as well.  Partly because of the growth, the other part may be due to whole subprime mortgage mess.  I spoke with someone in Colorado who is also seeing an extremel...

I hopped on the Internet last night and there it is again.  Doom and gloom from our media mogul MSN.  Although we've seen a change in the market the way builders approach business, such as the don't build an entire community and then expect buyers to just show up, I think we've been pretty steady...