If you are looking for low risk and secure investment opportunities that have the potential to offer good returns in the long run, few can do it for you better than real estate investments. This industry not only experiences ...

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                                                     (Part 4 of a Series) What does it take each month for you to cover all your essential living expenses: rent; or mortgage, taxes and insurance (PITIA); food; clothing; transportation; insurances; utilities; home maintenance; and other necessary monthly ...

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This is a very quick, broad approach to a subject that could easily fill an entire book, but it should give you an idea of some of the variables that determine how great of a discount a note buyer is ...

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Many of us have vague notions (mostly secondhand, or worse, so dislocated from the source that we cannot begin to gauge their authenticity) of the best time of year to buy or sell a home (two sides of the same ...

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Some homebuyers associate foreclosures with bargain-basement prices and oodles of profits. Others view the prospect of a distressed-home purchase as rife with potential pitfalls, including hidden rehab costs and multiple title liens. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Although ...

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During the past two years, investors have been buying up Charlotte area single-family homes in order to generate cash returns for other investments. Rapidly appreciating home prices have already slowed such purchases in the market by out-of-state real estate investment ...

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Institutional investor activity in the Charlotte metro housing market was up in January from the month before, but dropped from the previous year at the same time, according to a new report by RealtyTrac. The share of all residential purchase ...

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BALLANTYNE – At any age, J.C. Underwood is a one-man wonder. Seventy-six next month, Underwood is executive director of the nonprofit Metrolina Real Estate Investors Association, meaning he runs the office in Carmel Commons pretty much single-handedly, and he’s president ...

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Led by the behemoth Blackstone Group, the largest alternative investment company in the world, institutional investors are buying a lot of single-family homes in Charlotte, fixing them up, renting them out and holding onto them to see if they rise in value. One of every five houses sold in May, June and July in the Charlotte market went to big investors, a higher percentage than in any other market but Atlanta.

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“What can you do with a garage door?” That was the question on Tom Latimer’s mind after looking this month at a foreclosed home in Matthews that had been stripped of all its electrical wiring and boxes, heating and air ...

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