December 2008
The Investor's Learning Curve
The Investor's Learning Curve
If you find yourself at the point where you have thought about using real estate as part of your investment strategy AND you are truly ready to take ACTION, congratulations! It is impossible to know the exact st...
Nervous About Buying in this "Scary" Real Estate Market?
Nervous About Buying in this "Scary" Real Estate Market?
Watch the evening news enough and you will be scared to even walk close to that deadly beast known as "real estate". Is it REALLY as bad as the media suggests? Well, it ...
November 2008
Crossing the "Someday River"
Crossing the "Someday River"
Unless you Googled "Never Gonna Let You Down by Rick Astley" and by some miraculous phenomenon were led to this site, you are probably here due to your interest in how to use real estate as an investme...
September 2008
What is a Minnesota town home?
What is a Minnesota town home?
Town homes and other co-ops are a hybrid somewhere in between a condominium and a single family home. Usually a town home is attached to one or more other town homes, but has a little bit of outside space that is your own...
What is a Minnesota town home?
What is a Minnesota town home?
Town homes and other co-ops are a hybrid somewhere in between a condominium and a single family home. Usually a town home is attached to one or more other town homes, but has a little bit of outside space that is your own...
What is a Minnesota Condominium?
What is a Minnesota Condominium?
A MN condominium (aka a Minnesota condos) are the most basic sense is a building containing many individual residences inside. In this building residences are usually stacked on top of each other and side-by-side, so u...
Real Estate Investing 101 Seminar [Sept. 16th]
Below are my team\'s real estate investing seminars and
special-events in the Minneapolis and St. Paul Area.
Some of these educational-seminars are
specifically for beginning investors, some are for advanced investors, and other seminars
feature...
August 2008
What does it mean to be "upside down" on a house?
What Does It Mean To Be
"Upside Down" On Your House?
The term "upside down" refers to a scenario where the owner of a home actually owes more on that home in the house would be worth if it were sold. It's not quite that simple ...
$7500 for MN First Time Home Buyers!
More Money for Minnesota first time home buyers!
WOW! Who couldn't use a little extra cash when getting settled into their first MN home, right? Well, congress just passed a little-known incentive program to help encourage 1st time home buyers to ...
Can I Put My MN Investment Property into an LLC After Buying it Personally?
Given the basic facts about starting LLC's and gaining financing in them, many people choose to start the financing personally on their new real estate purchases and worry about getting them into the LLC later.
It is not a difficult or compli...
How To Choose Your Minnesota Mortgage
How To Choose Your Minnesota-Mortgage
When you are buying your home and you sit down with the lender you will realize there are lots of choices to make then you may not have expected. Typically a lender will ask you for your social security number and ...
How To Choose Your Minnesota Mortgage
How To Choose Your Minnesota-Mortgage
When you are buying your home and you sit down with the lender you will realize there are lots of choices to make then you may not have expected. Typically a lender will ask you for your social security number and ...
July 2008
What Is A "Buyers Market"?
What Is A "Buyers Market"?
Very simply put, a buyers market is a
Minnesota real estate market in which the buyer has the best possible advantage. The conditions that create this market usually involve circumstances that generate more homes o...
How Do I Start an LLC or Corporation?
As investors begin to look at more advanced strategies to protect their investments, often they will explore starting an LLC or other corporation. It is usually a very logical step in the investor's progression to open one of these companies as...
What Is A Minnesota Single Family Home?
What Is A Minnesota Single Family Home?
A single family home, often referred to as a detached home, is basically a freestanding residence for one family. It is not subdivided in any way, it is just one unit. Owning this type of structure usually means ...
Real Estate Investing 101 Seminar [Aug. 19th]
My team consists of many experienced real estate investors - and the purpose of this "101 seminar" will be to share our own practical and "real-world" approach to making money by investing in Minnesota real estate!
This seminar i...
Edina Realty Page
Edina Realty Search Now Available!
A new page has just been created for Edina realty where you can search the Edina real estate listings for Edina homes for sale.
Use this free online tool to locate properties in your price range, then save your search...
Find Out How Much Minnesota-Home You Can Afford To Buy Before Your Search
Find Out How Much Minnesota-Home
You Can Afford To Buy Before Your Search
Starting out, by knowing what you can afford to buy, is the
most effective way to approach looking for a new home. Your lender of choice
should be able to tell you this amoun...
Buying in LLCs, LLPs and Corporations
I get a lot of e-mail questions about the benefits of financing real estate investments inside an LLC, LLP or corporation. It is a broad question, but I try to answer it from the most basic level and let be investor choose what is most appropriat...
June 2008
Real Estate Investing 101 Seminar [July 15th]
My team consists of many experienced real estate investors - and the purpose of this "101 seminar" will be to share our own practical and "real-world" approach to making money by investing in Minnesota real estate!
This seminar i...
Building a Team of Experts
Another valuable-lesson Robert Kiyosaki teaches is, when you're beginning investing in real estate YOU should not be the smartest one on your team. This sounds like an awkward statement, but makes sense if you translate the logic to the 80/20 r...
May 2008
Rich Dad's Other Cash Flow-Quadrants [for MN Investors]
In his third or fourth "Rich Dad Poor Dad" book, Robert Kiyosaki expresses the advantages of investing in real estate by describing another type of cash flow quadrant.
This cash flow quadrant describes the four ways to generate money throu...
Real Estate Investing 101 Seminar [June 17th]
My team consists of many experienced real estate investors - and the purpose of this "101 seminar" will be to share our own practical and "real-world" approach to making money by investing in Minnesota real estate!
This seminar i...
