This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, scrapes, pops and new construction, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchasing a small home in an expensive neighborhood that may or may not need work. The home is bulldozed and a new home or duplex is put on
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11/25/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, fix and flips, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: A synthesis of the fix and flip and rental operations - purchasing an apartment building in a neighborhood dominated by owner occupants, then converting the buildi
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, fix and flips, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchasing a home that needs work. The scope can range from the basic "paint and carpet" to extensive overhauls to scraping a decrepit property and completely sta
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, lease options, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: A lease option (L/O) is Acquiring control of a property (though not necessarily ownership), then leasing the property to a tenant. The lease is bundled with an op
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, large apartment buildings, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: Still targeting tenants for 6-12 months at a time, buildings with more than five units are considered "commercial" property. The loans are more diffic
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, small apartment buildings, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchase of duplex, triplex or quadplex to be rented to tenants, usually for 6-12 month terms. Usually what the rental home / condo landlords graduate
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, rental condos or rental homes, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchase of a residential property to be rented out to tenants, usually on a 6-12 month lease term. This is how most new landlords get started. Y
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11/17/2008
This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, assignments, in the Adams Park area in Denver. What this investment is: An investor who is interested in Assignments gets a property under contract for an attractive price then assigns the contract to another buyer, usually another inves
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11/17/2008
A lot of clients ask me how to figure out what market rents are in a neighborhood. This is a critical input into the calculations an investor needs to make in order to determine what their return on investment will be on a rental property. So you don't want to screw this up! Unfortunately, thi
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11/17/2008
The talk around the water cooler these days is all about LOANS. Who can get them? At what price? What if I already have a few loans, do I still qualify? A year or two ago the question was at what price do I get a loan (those were the days!). Today it is "am I still in the game?" Here's th
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11/17/2008