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As owners of numerous investment properties ourselves, we've gained valuable experience and learned some hard lessons. You have the opportunity to take advantage of what we’ve learned and avoid making the mistakes common to many newcomers in the investment real estate field. Whether you're interested in purchasing rental properties, purchasing foreclosed properties, flipping renovated properties or making investment property your new career, we have the experience to help.
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Most investors are planning to sell their investment properties eventually.  Those same investors will either sell their property without doing any work and accepting the fact the property will not show very well.  Others will spend considerable time and money just prior to selling to get the pro...
08/20/2007
Are you memorized by those shows in which people are buying run-down houses, fixing them up and reselling them for huge profits sometimes even before the first mortgage payment is due?  I know I can't get enough of them! The people don't look any smarter than you, and they're raking in the cash! ...
08/17/2007
When I tour investment property for/with my customers, I am frequently amazed and disappointed how some investment property owners neglect the small items on their property.  It significantly hurts their "first impression" for me (and I suspect for any prospective tenants).  I believe this neglec...
08/16/2007
I have been doing a lot of research and reading on Search Engine Optimization lately as I try to boost my Google PR and visitors for my website (http://www.mnirea.com/).  One item that search engines appear to frown upon, or at least ignore, is duplicate content.  See the fantastic article writte...
08/16/2007
The Minneapolis & St. Paul real estate market continues to be in a slump.  Here are the new numbers released for July 2007: Closed sales are down 2.7% over July 2006.For the year to date, closed sales are actually down 14.4%. Percent of original list price received at sale is down 1.9% over July ...
08/15/2007
Recently, we have seen the stock and bond markets react negatively to the announcements of all the problems in the sub-prime loan markets.  Ben Stein wrote a great article, recently, in the New York Times named:  "Chicken Little's Brethen, on the Trading Floor."  Mr. Stein, an economist, lawyer, ...
08/14/2007
There are so many resources in the real estate market today to find and buy investment properties, how do you know which is the best?  I can't speak to any other states, but I will give you my (probably biased) opinion on how to find investment properties in Minnesota.Initially, spend time figuri...
08/11/2007
I understand that most people are concerned about how the economy is doing, the price of gasoline, and all the real estate foreclosures.  Just as you are supposed to buy stock low and sell high, the same principle applies to investment real estate. As I tour properties in Minneapolis and surround...
08/10/2007
New investors often ask me "Where is the best place to buy investment property?".  Or the question may be "I have heard that investing in property in [insert any state here] is great.  What do you think about it?".The answers to these questions is three-fold:1.  Buy and own property near where yo...
08/10/2007
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