Author: Marco Santarelli
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US Rents Hit Record Highs as Homeownership Plunges to 18 Year Lows
The American Home-ownership Dream is officially dead. Long live the New Normal American Dream: Renting. According to the latest quarterly home-ownership data released by…
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How to Determine Property Values in Today’s Market
In today’s market where there are so many foreclosure and bank REO sales, figuring out the real value of a property can be difficult.…
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Understanding Land Trusts (Part 1)
The land trust is one of the most talked about, but least understood, entity utilized by real estate investors. The reason for this is…
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Changes to the Home That Will Lower Home Insurance
Many new homeowners are looking for ways to save on their home insurance. Although some seem obvious because they are so highly advertised (bundling…
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Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Real Estate Investing (Part 2)
Make sure you read part 1 of the Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Real Estate Investing to find out the first 5 mistakes…
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National Economic Outlook (September 2013)
The rate of annual job growth in August, 1.7 percent, was basically the same as in previous months. We had better get used to…
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Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid in Real Estate Investing
In real estate, like many facets of life, it can often times be more useful to know what NOT to do than to know…
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17 Facts That Make Houston the Best City in America
When people think of a thriving, up and coming city, they don’t usually think of Houston. People tend to associate the city with the…
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Top Eight UnderPriced Single-Family-Home Markets
When the home bubble burst, mortgage sales collapsed, both loan origination and into the secondary market. The sleight hand in marketing mortgage backed securities…
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Huge Geographic Differences in U.S. Housing Market
The US housing market can no longer be painted with one brush, as the housing recovery is playing out very differently across the country. …
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3 Quick Ways to Add Value to Your Property
You’ve purchased that quick-flip property. Now it’s time to get the most out of your investment. Real estate players rely on timing, negotiating skills…
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10 Rules of Successful Real Estate Investing
I came up with the following rules of successful real estate investing over my many years of successes and failures. These are the same…
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National Economic Outlook (August 2013)
The pace of job growth in July was unchanged from the 1.7 percent annual rate of previous months, but the details suggest an economy…
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What is the Ideal “Exit Strategy”?
What exactly is meant by the term “exit strategy?” Is it just cool venture capitalist jargon as they take their billion-dollar start-up profitably public?…
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How to Get a Real Estate License
In a rebounding housing market in the United States, many people are searching for ways to take advantage of this and have set out…