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What is the Future of Mortgages Due to the Financial Crisis?

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Sub Prime Lending, Refinance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Agents, Pre Foreclosure, Mortgage, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Loan To Value, Legislation, Investment, Foreclosure, Financing, Equity, Economy, Credit Report, Credit Cards, Commercial Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Bank Owned, ARMs, Appreciation on Sep 28, 2008

Weighing out the Financial Crisis This current talk of financial bailout suggests that as a result mortgage rates will fall allowing a surge in home buying especially for first time buyers. Still one must wonder how long this will last but also what are the long-term impacts for the housing market? Right now it feels like the lending industry is distressed but this may not be true for very long. The banks at risk of

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Investment Banks Fail and its Impact on You and I

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Sub Prime Lending, Refinance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Agents, Over Leveraged, Over Financed, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Loan To Value, Legislation, Investment, Insurance, Foreclosure, Financing, Equity, Economy, Credit Report, Credit Cards, Corporation, Commercial Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Bank Owned on Sep 16, 2008

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I Have No Cash to Invest in Real Estate

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Sub Prime Lending, Seller Finance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Over Leveraged, Over Financed, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Investment, Getting Started, Flipping, Financing, Equity, Economy on Aug 28, 2008


Many people do not understand the liquidity of real estate transactions and are often lead to believe that the transaction hinges on the accessibility of cash money. In this day and age of a troubled economy, few have such means. The reality is there are other benefits to explore when embarking upon a real estate transaction that has less to do with cash funds and more to

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Can Subprime Bring Opportunities?

Posted by: John Burrows in Sub Prime Lending, Refinance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Pre Foreclosure, Over Leveraged, Over Financed, Mortgage, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Loan To Value, Investment, Foreclosure, Financing, Equity, Economy, Bank Owned on Aug 13, 2008

The so-called days of the mortgage boom are over causing a certain amount if disbelief among industry professionals. Like a bad hangover from Saturday night wild party, those who gained from historic low interest rates and flexible lending products that spawned the real estate boom at the turn of the millennium, are now slowly waking to reality. The once profitable sub-prime market is now

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Structuring Your Financing

Posted by: John Burrows in Refinance, Real Estate Investment, Mortgage, Investment, Financing, Equity, Appreciation, Analyze on Jul 28, 2008

Understanding the fundamentals of finance known as the time value of money is key in real estate investment. Such causes as inflation make the real value of a dollar less in the future than it is worth now. Because of this principle, buying property outright in cash does have its drawbacks, financially speaking, because another use of that cash may actually benefit the investor in the future

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Getting the Income Property For Your Money

Posted by: Alan Brown in Real Estate Investment, Market Prediction, Investment, Equity, Due Dilligence, Appreciation, Analyze on Jul 21, 2008

All investors including ones new to the playground know that the "golden grail" to succeeding in the real estate business is location. Location is the alpha and the omega of the real estate world. The common mistake is many assume that high-end prime location property is the be-all to end-all but that is simply not the case. Although those locations are often sought after they are not always

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