Category: Real Estate

The foreclosure process

The foreclosure process is not as mysterious as it seems. Due to federal and state laws, lenders must follow a specific process to foreclose on a property. Understanding the process will help you find investment opportunities. First, you’ll need to understand when a lender is allowed to foreclose on...

How To Touch Up Your Home For A Successful Real Estate Sale

The first effects your home has on a potential buyer will make or break your chances of a successful real estate sale. If you’re a homeowner entering the real estate market for the first time, trimming hedges, tweaking exterior fixtures here and there, and putting a shiny new paint...

MDA Small Rental Assistance Program: Round Two?

Well I have to say I was clearly disappointed in the way the MS Development Authority handled Rd. 1 of the SRAP (Small Rental Assistance Program). The MDA was a bit overwhelmed in my opinion, however they recognized this and from what I hear from the inside is that...

The power of the power of sale clause

We are finding out the hard way on a deed we bought in Alabama about the Power of Sale Clause. The power of sale clause is one of many clauses written in most mortgages that will allow the lender or mortgage owner the power to sell the property in...

List by owner in the MLS

For years, extremely knowledgeable home sellers—people like commercial real estate agents, real estate attorneys, and former residential agents—have contacted their friends in the residential real estate business to ask them to make a deal. “Just sign me up for the Multiple Listing Service (might then have been known as...

Invest in Rental Real Estate

It is interesting how rental real estate is treated as an investment. Like Rodney Dangerfield, he gets no respect. While conventional investments like stocks and bonds get the Financial Post and the Wall Street Journal, he does a search on “how to buy real estate” and you’ll discover all...