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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.
How to pay for college can be as important and difficult a decision as selecting which school to attend. With all the changes in
Athletics are such a visceral metaphor for every form of human endeavor – including investing. During an athletic competition, years of dedication to a
Many people think that the residential real estate crisis and its impact on banks and the secondary mortgage market have set the table for
After a couple of weeks of avoiding foreclosure and working out bad loans, we decided to take a virtual vacation and head to Southern
Super Bowl Sunday! While most people were guzzling beer (we are SO jealous), gorging themselves on chips and salsa, and cheering on their favorite
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…. Not Christmas. Tax time! This is the time of year when all the bills from the
This is the time of year when you find out how organized (or not) you are. The holidays are a distant memory, football games
The easiest thing in the world to do is predict the past. But what about the future? As we enter a brand new decade,
In our continuing quest for real estate wisdom, The Real Estate Guys catch up with two of the most active real estate investors around.
What is the meaning of life? Why did God create flies? How many little styrofoam balls in a bean bag chair? These are just
The end of the year is a great time to look back and grab lessons from the past so you can apply them to
With so many properties with mortgages that exceed the current value, many owners are feeling trapped. When loan modification fails and you can’t afford
It’s almost unfair to call this a “new” economy, since the rules to real estate investing abruptly changed over 3 years ago. But since
It’s hard not to be impressed with the growth of gold over the last several years. But did you know that there’s a relationship
No, that’s not a typo. HECM stands for Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, the FHA brand of reverse mortgages. “What the HECM is a reverse
Like marriages, partnerships can be beautiful or disastrous. On this broadcast, The Real Estate Guys talks to a practicing attorney who says there are
In the haunted house for this spooky show are: Host, Robert Helms Co-Host, Russell Gray “The Godfather of Real Estate” Bob Helms We love
In case you hadn’t noticed, the rules of the real estate game have changed a lot over the last 2 years – much of
“Get rich in a niche” is a classic piece of advice for almost any profession. Specialists almost always make more money than generalists. On
Every day we get emails from our listeners. Some like to tell us how awesome we are (oh, go on!), but most have questions.