Category: Real Estate
Vehicle insurance basics
What exactly is car insurance? Auto insurance is designed to provide you with protection in the event that you injure others, including property damage and bodily injury, as a result of an accident. Also, depending on the coverage and plan you have, it will reimburse you for injuries and damage done to your vehicle. In…
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Incremental housing: an excellent pay-as-you-go solution
Buying an existing home or building a new one is an expensive proposition, but if you’re willing to take an unconventional approach, you can build your own home in increments and spread the cost over a period of years, possibly saving yourself a mortgage. The first step is to find and buy a property. You…
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Commercial Financing at Home Loan Rates
It’s been a long time coming, but now you can use your residential property for commercial financing without the rate penalty. Typically, in the past, if you were to use a residential property for “commercial purposes” the bank would say yes, even though it’s residential, the purpose is commercial financing, so we’ll charge a “commercial”…
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Why Most New Realtors Fail
Being a real estate agent can be a lucrative career, and some real estate agents have even achieved millionaire status. But this is the glamorous side of real estate, the side that often attracts new realtors to the industry. The unfortunate part is that most new agents come with big business dreams that end up…
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Refinance Investments at the Best Interest Rates
Real estate investing has become very popular in recent years. With all kinds of “no money down” real estate courses being sold on infomercials and in every home-based business or investment publication out there, people have been rushing to buy property for investment purposes. Unfortunately, many of these people are not savvy about interest rates…
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What will happen to home prices: Immediate, short term, intermediate and longer!
Since no one has yet been able to discover a crystal ball that can consistently identify future and real estate-related market trends and behavior, it makes sense for real estate professionals, as well as qualified potential buyers and sellers/homeowners, to better understand some of the factors that affect prices and home prices. While the price…
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The benefits of cabinet locks for your home files
The main benefit of using cabinet locks on filing cabinets is security. You may instinctively know that security for commercial filing cabinets is a no-brainer, but for filing cabinets in your own home? Why? Well, think about the kinds of information you keep in those cabinets: insurance documents, medical exam reports, tax records, bank statements,…
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Criticality of continuing education in real estate investment
Why is real estate considered the best investment yet so many people fail? Let’s face it: the real estate market is never the same. Sometimes there is a strong appreciation and other times the market rolls downhill with no sign of stopping anytime soon. This is the state the market is in right now. The…
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Investing in Commercial Real Estate
As the residential real estate market has bottomed out, real estate investors have now turned to commercial real estate investing. Commercial real estate investing has many different options for the savvy investor. Some of them are the following: 1. Invest in a retail mall as part of a joint venture with several other investors. This…
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New House Industry: The Key to Job Creation and a Better Economy in Nigeria Part II
Every Nigerian government since its independence in 1960 has professed its support for affordable housing, but none has done anything tangible in this all-important industry. A large number of Nigerians continue to live in substandard houses. The conditions of kitchens and bathrooms are obvious indicators of household standards, just as one can judge restaurant food…
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