Educational Podcasts
Credit Score Triage – 3 Ways to Stop the Bleeding
When it comes to securing a home loan, the facts are simple. A low credit score makes it harder to find a lender willing to take a chance on you. The answer? Raise your credit score! We’re not suggesting you fall prey to the hacks and scammers who make pie-in-the-sky...
AIPIS 38 – Home Improvement Tips with Tom Kraeutler
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Raising Rent on Your Income Property Can Be Tricky
When and how much to raise rent, if at all, on your income property can be a tricky matter. The trick is to do it with the minimum amount of ruffled feathers and wounded feelings. Also, you don’t want to increase it too far, too fast or you might find yourself with a...
Where Are the First-Time Home Buyers Going?
According to the National Association of Realtors, first-time home buyers have dwindled from a normal 40 percent of the market to numbers substantially below that, 28 percent in April 2012 and 34 percent in May of that year. Whoa, Nellie! What’s up? We could stand...
Trump University: Scandal or Smear?
The charges and counter-charges are flying fast and furious in the $40 million lawsuit filed against “Trump University” by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The state’s case claims that developer and reality television star (Apprentice and Celebrity...
AIPIS 37 – Investing, Distressed Property, and the Florida Real Estate market with Lex Levinrad
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AIPIS 36 – Improving Your Home with House Smarts TV host Lou Manfredini
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10 Legitimate Landlord Deductions
Here’s a question every landlord should ask himself: “Would I prefer to pay less in taxes on my rental income or more?” C’mon, who would choose to pay more? The answer is YOU do if you’re not taking advantage of these 10 perfectly legal tax deductions for landlords....
Jason Hartman’s Executive Property Tour Rolls Into Austin
Judging from the calls we receive on a daily basis, the average newbie real estate investor thinks he or she has missed out on the rock bottom housing prices that followed the latest foreclosure crisis, and that it’s too late to begin creating wealth through income...
Hard Money: Extreme Non-Traditional Financing
Even though the real estate lending environment has relaxed somewhat, banks are still skittish about doling out money to borrowers without a kidney donation and rights to their firstborn. Luckily - and sometimes not so much - there are alternative ways of procuring...