Your weekly news & updates Here is this week's "Weekly Roundup" from Real Estate Investing Today, the news & views site from the National Real Estate Investors Association. Visit our Website Housing Costs Continue to be the Leading Increase in Inflation Indexes The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was up 0.1% in...
Your weekly news & updates Here is this week's "Weekly Roundup" from Real Estate Investing Today, the news & views site from the National Real Estate Investors Association. Visit our Website Pending Home Sales Up 0.8% in February The National Association of Realtors is reporting that pending home sales were up 0.8% in February, 2023 – the third month in a row. The NAR’s Pending...
By: Jeffery S. Watson Dear Anna, For those of you who do not learn from history, you will repeat it. In 2016, a book titled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, a progressive, pro-tenant publication, began circulating and influencing many of the news stories regarding housing being available in the United States. Then came the Covid Eviction Moratorium, and out of...
As you are aware there is a group of non-owner occupied property owners trying to stop the ordinance. This group has been meeting weekly presenting our case to the Mayor, Administrator, and City Council members and have gotten nowhere. I have been in the Mayor's meetings with 7 other landlords since January expressing the overreach, invasive, and unconstitutional aspects of...
By: Jeffery S. Watson Dear Anna, In emails to you this week, I’ve shared the opportunity for you to be one of the first people to take action and get a series of videos titled “Taxation and Structuring Sub2 & Wraps” that John Hyre and I did regarding subject-to transactions and wraps. One of the first action takers wrote me shortly after he...
Image via Pexels As an investment property owner in Toledo, OH, you want to ensure your home is appealing to renters. The goal is to find quality tenants who will take care of your property and pay their rent on time. To do this, you must ensure your home is up to par regarding repairs, features, amenities, and design. Consider these...
Your weekly news & updates Here is this week's "Weekly Roundup" from Real Estate Investing Today, the news & views site from the National Real Estate Investors Association. Visit our Website Existing-Home Sales Drop 1.5% in December The National Association of Realtors is reporting that existing home sales were down 1,5% in December to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million (down 34% year...
by David Pickron A landlord looking for a tenant loves to see multiple people interested in their property. It's critical to follow this one rule when you have an application come in for your vacant property. Rent Perfect President David Pickron explains what to do to keep out of trouble when you start accepting applications. The Rent Perfect system helps investors become...
by David Pickron History is littered with what, at the time, were considered “game changers.” Those game changers have become commonplace in our current world; when was the last time you marveled at the technological breakthrough we know as the wheel? Or the lightbulb? Or even the fact that we fly in airplanes all around the world? The likelihood is we...
By Scot Aubrey If you have spent more than 30 seconds in the last year watching cable news, you are more than familiar with something called “the blame game.” Regardless of political party affiliation, age, race, gender, sexual preference or any of a host of other categories, it appears that our society has become a place of great divide. As a...