A friend of mine who is far smarter than I am – hold the snide comments – sent me a link to an article that was written about two weeks ago.  I’ll include a link to the article below if you really want to read it: http://bit.ly/2020REoutlook This article is one of those that point […]

Being a real estate investor (or a real estate agent working with one) is not for everyone, that’s for sure.  There is a reason people don’t dive into the real estate investing pool. They don’t understand how the deals are being financed.  Let me give you a quick breakdown of how some fix-and-flip deals are […]

In the not-too-distant past, marketing and advertising were costly and, quite often, labor-intensive (which means “costly”).  With social media being readily available and free to everyone, that significantly evened the score for everyone involved.  So, instead of having a handful of players who have the money and means to go after a target audience, we […]

  Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting with a person who is new to being a real estate agent but not new to selling a house. Our conversation turned to the subject of her own home that she and her husband were about to put on the market. She wanted to know what mortgage […]

Pulling credit. For numerous reasons, when I’m in the middle of taking a mortgage application, and I ask the borrower for her/his social security number, I often get these responses: “Do you really need to pull my credit?” “Can we wait to pull my credit until . . . ?” “I’m not comfortable giving that […]