Investing Your IRA

March 2007 - Posts

• How to flip properties in a down market

  My team and I flip houses in Michigan, where the housing market is currently experiencing a significant slump. Wherever these dips in the market occur, they often discourage investors, particularly novice investors, from flipping, but you don't need to get discouraged. With the right adjustments, you can flip houses profitably in a depressed market. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:56 PM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: flipping, flipping property

• Don't want to flip? It's a good time to invest and hold

  It may be a bad time for flippers looking to make a quick buck, and their departure from a demand-driven market has certainly contributed to a drop in home prices. But for investors who view real estate as the keystone of a long-range financial plan, there may be no time like the present to buy-and hold. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:51 AM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: IRA investing, investors, income property management

• Flipping for dummies

  March is "Dummies Month," and to celebrate this festive occasion, John Wiley & Sons, publishers of the bestselling "For Dummies" series has chosen to showcase Flipping Houses For Dummies by Ralph R. Roberts and Joe Kraynak. Starting March 12, Roberts and Kraynak will be guest blogging for the entire week, sharing additional tips, tricks, and insights on how to minimize risks and maximize profits in the popular world of fix-it-and-flip-it real estate investing. Read More... Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 6:29 PM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: flipping, fix and flip

• Freddie Mac tightens Sub Prime market

  Government-sponsored mortgage marketer Freddie Mac is the latest company to weigh in on the growing concern over lending to unqualified home buyers, saying it's tightening its standards for buying mortgages held by such borrowers. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:03 PM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: mortgages, Freddie Mac, sub prime loans, home loans

• Investment properties are everywhere

  Dontwanner (don't want her) is a term I often use to describe distressed properties-houses and other real estate that the owners don't want so much that that they're willing to do anything to get rid of it, including deeply discounting it. Real estate investors can score big profits on dontwanners by recycling what the owners consider burdensome trash into cash. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:41 PM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: distressed properties, finding distressed properties

• How the Federal Reserve affects interest rates

  According to Tim Ray at Apollo Mortgage, consumers are often misled when it comes to the subject of the Federal Reserve and how it affects mortgage interest rates. Often the media is the culprit causing the confusion. In the last few years, the Fed has taken action that caused mortgage interest rates to move in a direction other than what consumers expected, because the media provided weak reporting on the subject. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:35 PM by Mack and Andi Durbin | 0 Comments Filed under: Federal Reserve, interest rates