Real Estate Investing

This is a guest post by Ronald Cagape of LivingCasflow101.com The RESA law is a comprehensive law intended to professionalize the ranks of real estate service providers – brokers, agents, appraisers, assessors and consultants. However, this law has cast some doubt on the practice of buying and selling real estate. Let me share with you [...]

So you have announced to the world that you are now a real estate investor, and suddenly, everyone has a property they want to show to you. This often happens to me, and can also happen to you as follows. A friends calls and says “Hey Jay, I found a foreclosed property for sale and [...]

Do you really wan’t to know the bad side of real estate investing? Although I believe it’s not a good idea to focus on the bad because we attract more of what we focus on, we should still be aware of the risks  in order to be able to effectively avoid or manage them. Incoming [...]

Have you seen the low interest home loans being offered by a few banks out there lately? Several months ago, the lowest home loan rate I have seen was 5.99% per year. Now, it is even lower at 5.75% (turns out 5.88% is no longer the lowest home loan rate available). Personally, I believe these are the best [...]

Although it’s already 2011, I simply cannot let 2010 go without giving thanks for another year full of blessings. Let me look back at 2010 for one last time to give thanks and count the blessings for the year that just passed. After all, 2010 was the year… Incoming search terms: it is all about [...]

*I have turned this into a sticky post for new visitors. I was supposed to finish writing my “Goodbye and thank you to 2010, Hello 2011…” post, but ended up with this list of the best “How to” articles from Foreclosure Investing Philippines during the year that passed. After all, FIP is so much more [...]

*Last updated on January 1, 2011, 11:00am As 2010 comes to an end, I can’t help but look back and list down just some of the most significant and sometimes painful lessons I personally learned during the past year. I hope these lessons would help us all move forward in 2011.

This is part 2 of a series on the “Matthew Effect”. If you have not yet read part 1, you can read it here : The “Matthew Effect” and how it applies to real estate investing (Part 1) Imagine the time when a real estate investor finally nails his first deal. Can that be a [...]

I first learned about the “Matthew Effect” when I read the book “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell. In his book, Gladwell cited stories of successful people ranging from professional hockey players in Canada, to the likes of Bill Gates, and The Beatles,  as examples of how “accumulated advantage” played a big part [...]