Real Estate Investing Realistically

One of the best ways to learn anything is to learn by watching what other people do. Whether they are successful or they fall flat on their faces, there is usually something to learn from other people’s experience. This is one of the great things about the Internet; people are willing to write about their real estate investing experiences and you can learn from them. Here are some of my favorites:

Shaun’s Real Estate Adventures

“D”igital Breakfast

Hespy’s Real Estate Blog

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RealEstateJournal.com is reporting some good news. It looks like the rental market is starting to pick up.

From the article:

The nation’s rental-apartment market improved for the third consecutive quarter, leading some experts to declare that a recovery is taking hold.

This makes buying a new house even more attractive and holding on to existing real estate look like a better deal.

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Everyone in real estate investing has been talking about “the bubble”. Is there really a real estate bubble? When will it burst?

A couple of recent articles suggest that maybe the bubble will not burst, but slowly shrink. In the RealEstateJournal an article, Is the Housing Boom Headed For a Soft Landing or a Crash?, quotes Standard & Poor’s Chief Economist David Wyss as saying “The bubble should end with a fizzle, not a bang”. Meanwhile an article in today’s New York Times, Slowing Is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Markets, suggests that the real estate market may have reached its peak.

This could be good or bad for real estate investors, depending on what properties they are currently holding. People who have properties with little equity could be in trouble. Now is not a time to be over-leveraged. Those with cash to start buying properties could see some good times ahead.

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BankRate.com has an excellent article on potential tax burdens when flipping houses. Many people go into a flipping project thinking that they will not have to pay taxes on the sale and get a surprise at tax time.

Real estate investing does have many tax benefits, but many of these benefits are lost when a house is sold shortly after it was bought.

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We are pleased to present RealEstateSlowly.com. We hope to be a source of realistic real estate investment.

This is not a get-rich-quick site. It focuses on building wealth slowly and surely.

We will be adding more content in the coming weeks and months. We hope you get some use out of it.

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