The Real Estate Guys™ Blog
Weekly blog posts keep you up-to-date with news and views you can use. Looking at economics, trends, clues in the news, markets, financing and more … all from the perspective of a real estate investor.
Have you heard? There’s been some bad weather lately….and it seems to have sub-marined much of the U.S. economy. At least that’s the official
If you want great answers, you have to ask great questions. In this edition of Ask The Guys, we take on several great questions
Everyone wants a good deal. In fact, everyone wants a GREAT deal. But how do you organize your real estate investing business to be
Many people are seeing the big opportunity in raising private money to do more and bigger deals. So we thought it would be a
Real estate investing is a business that often attracts loners and mavericks. Freedom from bosses and co-workers is often as much the motivation for
As market mariners, we’re always watching the financial waves to know which way the wind is blowing and whether a swell is headed our
Robert Kiyosaki says, “Savers are losers”. Does this mean you should consume more than you produce, or that saving is bad? Of course not.
“Dodd only knows. Dodd makes his plans. The information’s unavailable to the mortal man.” – Slip Sliding Away by Paul Simon…slightly modified by The
In this episode, The Real Estate Guys™ answer your question with our questionable answers. 😉 And at the end of the broadcast, a living
Call us paranoid (we’ve been called worse), but all the worldwide currency and credit expansion makes us a little nervous. Sure, we like it
Options are one of the most interesting yet misunderstood tools in an investor’s tool box. And how you think of them depends on whether
John Denver once sang, “Life on the road is kinda laid back.” Not for us. But thank God we’re real estate guys. For you
Rehabbing is a rite of passage for real estate investors. Nearly everyone tries it at some point. Some people like it. A few even
Whether times are good, bad, uncertain or chaotic, it always makes sense to focus on fundamentals. And there’s nothing more fundamental than food. In
We think crowdfunding could be the Facebook of connecting money to Main Street. Yes, it could be THAT big. So we decided to go
The dollar has been on a steady decline since Nixon took it off the gold standard in 1971. Since then, the dollar has lost
Because the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world, what happens in Washington DC and at the Federal Reserve has a big
We all have people who’ve made a big difference in our lives. Sometimes they’re people around you. Other times, it’s a someone “out there”
Retirement accounts hold trillions of dollars of assets. Almost all of it is in the hands of Wall Street through stocks, bonds, mutual funds
We like real estate. We think real estate is a GREAT investment…maybe the BEST investment. BUT (and yes, it’s a big bubble of a