If you are new to the San Diego area housing market, there are lots of terms to learn. From the first time you talk to a realtor all the way up through your closing, you are about to enter a whole new world of real estate terminology. Here’s what you need to know about the [...]

If you are educating yourself to enter the brave new world of twenty-first century San Diego real estate, it is important to know about bank owned properties. A bank owned property is a great way to get a home for less than you’d pay if it were listed by a traditional seller, but the process [...]

Fundamentally there are three different types of property for sale in terms of residential homes. Commercial property can be considered a separate entity, separate from the sale residential homes. Property for sale can be split into other categories along the lines of style, for example to claim that a mock Tudor semi is the same [...]

Both buyers and sellers have been fearful of the recent mortgage crisis. This is especially true of places that have suffered from recent economic and natural disasters such as New Orleans. Real estate, however, is always a good investment and right now is an excellent time to take advantage of some low prices and special [...]

Are you getting tired of looking through the weekly property listings trying to find an investment property? I know a lot of people that want to get started investing in real estate, but they keep looking in the wrong places for undervalued properties and eventually give up thinking that there are no good deals to [...]

There is nothing worse than buying an investment property that you thought was a good deal and then finding out that you were going to lose money when you sold it rather than make the tens of thousands that you expected. This happens to a lot of new and old real estate investors and although [...]

As far as real estate trends go, we are currently in a buyers’ market. In a true buyers market a large percentage of the listings have had at least one price decrease since they initially entered the market. With more homes on the market, buyers can afford to take their time. If necessary, buyers should [...]

There is something about fixing up a property that makes you feel like you have done something special. We like to do it with our own homes as well as investment properties because it can be a great adventure to take a nightmare of a house and turn it into something worth living in. Although [...]

One of the most difficult tasks for any estate agent is to conduct a property valuation. Not only is the process difficult because it requires a multi faceted approach that takes many different factors into account, but it is also difficult because delivering the news of exactly what a property is worth to a homeowner [...]

This past year I have been on a quest to find the best real estate investing training at the lowest price available. I’ve been successful in tax lien investing, but now I want to use my profits from tax lien investing and put my money into real estate deals. Real estate investing is something that [...]