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A brand new commercial leads site just launched. It’s called CommercialDeals.com. Looks like they’re going to try to give C-Loans.com a run for their money. Here’s the spiel: CommercialDeals.com is your source for FREE commercial real estate finance leads.  Leads may include all project types (e.g., acquisition, refinance, value-add, development) and financing scenarios (e.g., conventional [...]

I’m based in Denver, Colorado and as you may know our football team has sucked the last few years. Lots of issues – no defense, quarterback issues, etc – and as a result our longtime coach Mike Shanahan got fired. He’s leaving Denver and his house is

Here’s the April 2009 installment of Real Estate Investing in the Real World featuring Tom Cooke. Tom is a syndicator and rehabber based in Long Beach, California and he spends about an hour taking us through his strategy and sharing tips, tricks and the secrets to his success.

The Home Valuation Code Of Conduct (HVCC) goes into effect May 1st.  It’s a law that says real estate appraisers should not be “intimidated, coerced or bribed into coming up with a valuation on a property.” (um, we need a law to tell us that?!) Fannie Mae

Here’s the replay of the Internet Marketing Made Easy virtual class! Internet Marketing Made Easy How to start an internet business that nets you $1,500 a month in 30 days or less. Original Broadcast Date: April 15, 2009 You’ll learn: Internet Marketing Business Models – Which one is Right for You? Identifying Profitable Niches Building [...]

Over the course of the last few years, I’ve been selling off my residential properties to focus on commercial investing. Luckily, most of the 1, 2 and 3 unit properties I had were sold prior to the “mortgage meltdown” that happened last year. I had one duplex

So, last year when Fannie and Freddie freaked out and imposed all the crazy new rules for conventional loans, the biggest slam to us investors was the “maximum of 4 properties financed” rule. Basically it said that the max number of properties we were allowed to have financed using conventional