10 Cheap Home Value Boosters

With all the rehab I've done, I think I have a pretty good idea of what fixes you should make to a house to get it to sell quicker and for a higher price. However, just to show you can never know everything about a subject, an article on MSN taught me a few new tricks. Some things I didn't know:Tip #2: I normally replace the appliances in my houses, but if the existing ones are still in good shape except for cosmetics, I didn't know you could just...

Trading One Job For Another

I've been thinking about this for a while, but when I read the latest post on one of the real estate investing blogs I follow regularly, I had to write about this.I follow several blogs of people who got started in real estate investing. Over the past several months, three of them have decided to get their real estate license and become Realtors. It seems to me that this is just trading one job for another. I will admit there are some advantages...

2006 Financial Year In Review

The end of the year is fast approaching and it is looking like I'm going to be too busy for the remainder of the month to get much going in terms real estate deals, so I thought I'd look at how I did in 2006.Real Estate:I rehabbed only one house this year. My goal was to do at least two, so I fell short there. In my defense though, I was asked by my investors to stop for a while until I could conference with them. That took me out of the market for...