The nationwide boom in foreclosures and bank-owned real estate (REO) property sales to investors is producing an unpleasant and sometimes dangerous side effect: Growing numbers of confrontations occur when investors visiting supposedly empty properties find them occupied — and the inhabitants don’t want to leave or let anybody in.
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Investor Report: REO Scam Warning
The economy may be flat, but it’s boom time for investors who know how to buy houses at fire-sale prices, fix them up and sell or rent them out.
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Investor Report: Home Investors Booming
Some investors may believe the headlines and assume that nobody’s lending money anymore — and certainly not for small residential rental projects.
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Investor Report: Who is Lending?
A lot of people assume that the federal bailout law is all about helping banks and buying toxic mortgage portfolios. That’s true, but Congress included some important tax items in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act that could be of immediate use by owners and developers of investment real estate.
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Investor Report: Bailout to Aid Investors
If you’re planning to buy investment property and financing it through a lender who sells to Fannie Mae, keep the date December First in mind. Nail down your mortgage commitments quickly — in the next six weeks if you can.
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Investor Report: Investing by December 1st
For the second time in two months, federal authorities have warned real estate investors about the lack of regulatory oversight of so-called qualified intermediaries in tax-deferred Section 1031 exchanges.
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Investor Report: Lack of Regulatory Oversight
Small-scale rental home investors need to be aware of a new campaign by the nation’s largest apartment owners that could have the effect of scaring away potential tenants.
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Investor Report: Small-scale Investors Beware
Here’s a concept that real estate investors might want to check out: Cash for part of the future equity in their properties … with no interest charges.
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Investor Report: Cash for Future Equity
Should the Federal Trade Commission develop national licensing requirements and standards regulating the middlemen who conduct thousands of tax-deferred real estate exchanges every year?
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Investor Report: Intermediaries and Tax-deferred Exchanges
Some rental home investors may have a temporary window in time to take advantage of a rare tax law “twofer” — profiting from not just one, but two of the latest changes to the Internal Revenue Code.
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Investor Report: Rare Tax Law and Opportunity for Profit
Here’s a tax alert for real estate investors who use popular tax-free exchanges: The recently signed federal housing legislation contains a hidden zinger that could cost you thousands of dollars if you don’t plan around it.
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Investor Report: Hidden Tax Pitfall
For many real estate investors, it was the most profitable tax strategy around: Move into a rental property you own, use it as a principal residence for two years, and convert taxable capital gains into tax-free dollars when you sell or exchange.
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Investor Report: Taxable Capital Gains
We all know that down markets can offer great opportunities for investors looking to pick up properties at rock-bottom prices.
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Investor Report: When Partnerships Fail
Student housing in major college and university towns has been one of the steadiest performing niches in real estate throughout the current down cycle. After all, no matter what’s going on in the economy, college students are still flooding campuses, they still need a place to live, and they strongly prefer private rental housing over dormitories.
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Investor Report: Student Housing Performing
Here’s some really good news for anyone involved in acquiring, rehabilitating and reselling foreclosed houses: The Federal Housing Administration is temporarily waiving its “anti-flipping” rules and will now insure mortgages on properties that have been owned by the current seller for less than 90 days.
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Investor Report: Anti-Flipping Rules
