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Say you’ve had your home for sale for months and not a single home buyer has decided to make an offer to you. You’ve spent a lot of money on home advertising, made a number of price reductions and nobody calls you.

Maybe your agent now has an expired listing. What can you do when it’s plain that your home isn’t selling?Read more…

When your home goes up for sale, you likely envision a happy family or young couple putting in their offer and living happily ever after in your former house.

However, individual buyers aren’t the only ones who may make an offer on your property.

You may receive offers early on from investors: Firms and individuals often buy residential homes to use as rentals, to resell at a profit or to build up a property portfolio.

And as with most transactions, there are upsides and downsides in selling your home to investors. Make sure you know everything you can before you act.Read more…

Rent-to-own agreements, also called lease-to-own agreements or lease-options, are traditional leases agreements that also give the tenant an option to purchase the rental property, typically a single-family house, sometime after the beginning of the tenancy. This arrangement has potential financial and other benefits to both landlords and tenants.Read more…

There are two groups of real estate professionals out there who might not realize how mutually beneficial their relationship can be: Agents, who are skilled at helping clients navigate all aspects of the buying and selling process, and investors, who are skilled at assessing deals and recognizing the potential for profit. As an investor who’s purchased 1000+ properties, I’ve worked with a range of agents and have experienced first-hand the value they can bring to the table. By combining their respective talents, these real estate pros can provide value to each other — and reap the rewards.Read more…

Financial advisors will tell you that there are five ways that you can earn a return on any investment.  In no particular order, these are:

• • Cash Flow or Rate of Return

• • Federal Tax Benefits

• • Leverage of OPM (Other People’s Money)

• Principal Paydown
• Appreciation

One of the wonderful things about real estate is that you can get all five!  Real estate is the only investment that potentially gives you all of these advantages!Read more…

When the housing market is soft, sellers who can’t move their home quickly off the market commonly lease their property to temporary tenants. And some sellers will consider leasing their home as a “rent to own” property. In this market, if you’re a renter interested in buying a home but don’t have the down payment substantial enough to do so, this can be an excellent option. So here, we’ll explore what it means to “lease to own” and some of the advantages to both sellers and buyers.

Renting to own can be an easy, low-stress, inexpensive way to buy, sell or invest in real estate. Rent-to-own purchases typically work like this: The lease of a home is combined with an option to purchase the property within a specified period of time (usually 3 years or less) at a particular price. The renter pays a non-refundable “option fee” (like a security deposit) which is sometimes 1% to 5% of the price, which goes toward the purchase price of the home. Usually the renter pays the monthly rent payment plus an additional premium that is also credited to the purchase price. Read more…