Any foreigner can buy real estate in South Africa. This includes, unlike in Namibia, farms and agricultural land. Due to the favorable exchange rate, property in South Africa is affordable. For example, a house in a good area of Cape Town, with a swimming pool and a large garden, costs just over $250,000. Apartments are offered for less than $100,000. […]
Design Options for Hilly and Sloping Blocks
A lot of Australian cities have hilly areas, and where you have hills you have sloping blocks. The methods used by Volume Builders are not good solutions for these potentially beautiful blocks. Either they refuse to build on them or they charge the land for site costs, dig a hole in the block and bury a house in it. However, […]
Everything you need to know about Davenport Laroche
Introduction Davenport Laroche is a Hong Kong-based company that rents out the containers it has purchased. Giving you around 12% interest while taking 4% of the profits you make from acting as a broker. As promising as it looks and sounds, it is not trustworthy. Because when it comes to profit, low risk and high returns never go hand in […]
Manage Money Better: World-Class Wealth Starts With World-Class Thinking
If you have control of the money, you can go to work because you want to. If money controls you then you go to work because you have to. This is a subtle difference in writing, but a big difference in the way you live your life. Even in the richest countries in the world, 99% of the population is […]
20 reasons to lease equipment
There are numerous benefits to leasing, an equipment financing method that has been popular for many years. It offers some unique benefits over conventional bank financing or an outright purchase, and here are 20 reasons to lease equipment. 1. Pay as you go Leasing highlights the utility value of the equipment. In other words, leasing provides the opportunity to pay […]
FHA Lifts Seasoning Requirement: What Does This Mean For Real Estate Investing?
Word is spreading fast… the FHA has eliminated the 90-day seasoning requirement! Unfortunately, much of the news is incomplete or inaccurate. Here’s the real deal… What is all this? Since 2003, the FHA has required a home to be “seasoned” for 90 days before resale. So after closing on a property, you must wait 90 days before you can sell […]
Detroit Travel: A Corktown and Mexicantown Bike Tour
My Detroit discoveries were slowly but surely coming to an end, and I had already seen so many interesting places on my whirlwind tour over the last four days. Just before I was ready to cross the border back to Windsor, I had one more adventure on my agenda: a bike tour of southwest Detroit to cover Corktown and Mexicantown. […]
Six Economic Principles of Real Estate Valuation
Real estate valuation is the process of estimating a single price that one would realistically pay to own a particular property. The residential property valuation method that is most familiar to brokers and agents, of course, is comparative market analysis (or CMA). This property valuation process involves estimating value based on sales prices of other similar (or comparable) properties within […]
Tenant Selection – The Process – How does a landlord select the right tenant?
The basics * All applicants over the age of eighteen must complete, sign and date an application * All applicants must provide current photo identification such as a driver’s license *Spouses must be considered as separate applicants for the rental process * Please be aware of local laws on discrimination and fair housing. Do not write on the application or […]
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Many beginning real estate investors start out selling real estate to make a quick buck. If you want to make more money investing in real estate, you need to know a few essentials. What is the definition of real estate flipping? Simple definition: buying a property and quickly reselling it, hoping to make a big profit. Typically, people think of […]