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Have you ever thought about investing in real estate, if only you had enough money to buy a house to rehab? Hard money may be just the answer for you. When you have found a property that is selling for …

Recent troubles in the real estate market have left many homes vacant and often unattended. These vacant or blighted properties cause many problems for local communities. As the level of decay increases the houses become safety and fire hazards, attract …

Land Trusts: The Answer to Flipping Short Sales? Flipping a property means to settle on a piece of property for one price and immediately (within minutes, hours, or a day) “flip,” or sell, the property to another end-buyer for a …

You are ready to start construction, but the loan process is slowing you down. You should consider obtaining a hard money loan to get going on your project today. Hard money loans can be obtained quickly and with little upfront …

What is Hard Money Lending? A common situation that is occurring within the real estate industry itself is hard money lending. This is when a loan is made for the purchase of real estate, where the property is in the …

Trust Deed Investing With the continued uncertainty of the Stock Market, many investors are looking for safer and more lucrative ways to invest their money. Trust Deed investing also known as private note investing offers an individual the opportunity to …

Hard Money Bankers Is Quickly Becoming a Player in Private Real Estate Lending In recent years, the process has become more difficult for Real Estate investors to obtain traditional financing through banks and other financial institutions. Hard Money lenders, such …

IRA’s that require the account owner to make investment decisions is called a Self Directed IRA. A trustee or custodian is required though, when actual decisions are made, due to IRS requirements. The IRA trustee or custodian is the person …

Private Mortgage Notes provide borrowers with an alternative to traditional bank financing for real estate properties. A borrower may not want to pursue bank financing due to time constraints, credit worthiness, or other factors, so they look for individuals or …

Hard Money Lending is Helping the Economy:   For real estate investors access to conventional funding through banks for real estate projects has become difficult to obtain. Banks have tightened up their requirements for lending, and any blemish on your record …

With the subprime crisis of a few years ago, and the recession of the past couple of years, the demand for the services of mortgage brokers has diminished. These facts along with tighter lending standards, has led to tough times …

For real estate professionals, this past year has been one of the most painful in recent times — defaults are up, homeownership is down, foreclosures have soared and the poorly performing housing sector is starting to create negative ripple effects …

Someone brings you a private real estate note opportunity. You have underwritten the borrower and the collateral and you like the deal – now it’s time to document and close the transaction. Do you know how to protect your money? …

Be careful about buying that LLC!  Maryland is the most recent addition to the list of States making real estate investors and commercial property owners a bit poorer this year by instituting transfer taxes on the sale of an entity …

In what is sure to be one of the worst Ponzi schemes ever perpetrated, Bernard Madoff, one of those “Wall Street wizards” that we have all come to know, love and trust with our money (like the Enron fellas), has …