Real estate investors and every other breathing citizen of this great country should be concerned about forced arbitration clauses. If this is the first you’ve heard of the thing, consider yourself a lucky human being because it’s likely buried in the fine print of...
Why Paying Above Market Price for an Investment Property is a Good Idea
Listen up, kiddies, because we’ve been hearing some muttering out there that all the good deals are gone, and the time to buy an investment property at a sweet price has passed you by. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even paying above market prices today...
Jason Called It – Commodity Prices on the Rise
For several years now, AIPIS CEO and founder, Jason Hartman, has been talking about the inevitable rise in costs of the basic materials needed to build a house: lumber, gypsum, tar roofing, insulation, concrete, copper, etc. Continued inflation plays a part in these...
Turn Your Vacation Home into Positive Cash Flow
The great thing about vacation homes is, well, they’re vacation homes and you're a lucky dog to have one. The kind of crappy thing about vacation homes is they cost money to maintain. Sometimes a lot of money. The good news is that Jason Hartman’s strategy for income...
A Property Management Scam of Epic Proportions
Apparently, bilking landlords out of their hard-earned rental money was a special service provided by Bryan Talbott and Chester Ranson’s Washington D.C. area property management company. Back in January of 2012, the men pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud,...
Cypress Ponders and Rejects EU Confiscation Plan
The fiscal mess infecting certain nations of the European Union (EU) continues to astound those of us on the outside looking in. This time it’s Cypress that finds itself in dire financial straits and the EU knew they needed a bailout plan. Unfortunately for those...
People Are Moving to Our Property Markets
We don’t like to brag - well, sometimes we do just a little bit - but it seems that America is beginning to figure out that the markets we’ve been recommending to income property investors for years are being discovered by the public at large as pretty nice places to...
The Billion Dollar Industry Called Corporate Housing
Mobile home parks. Self-storage lots. Residential housing. Commercial housing. These are just some of the ways investors can approach income property investing. But there’s one strategy we haven’t spent much time discussing and, truth be told, it’s a pretty big...
Death of the Middle Class Stockholder
As goes the middle class, so goes the American economy. That's been the conventional wisdom, at least, ever since the second world war ended and gave rise to a newfound prosperity for that large group of people who weren't quite rich and weren't quite poor. These days...
Should You Talk Clients Out of Overseas Investing?
One of the perceived advantages to overseas investing is that the foreign markets move in opposition to domestic markets. In essence, they would act like a hedge of sorts, gaining in value when US markets are dropping. The reality is that the hidden drawbacks present...