After 11 years in the Real Estate business, at age 60 I decided to re-invent myself once again and I went to school to get my Real Estate Broker License. During one of the breaks, a pre-license student asked the instructor what type of commission splits should they ask for when looking for a Bro
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07/19/2012
A few years ago, flipping houses was the rage in Real Estate Investing. "Reality" TV and Real Estate Investing book "Guru's" had thousands of people getting into flipping houses. Good news for the Real Estate industry - large inventories of houses were reduced and prices started increasing agai
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07/12/2012
For those of you not familiar with a "named" Tropical Storm, this is the step before a storm is called a hurricane. Tropical Storm Debby pounded Florida for several days. Winds gusting to 70 miles per hour and 11 to 15 inches of rain caused tremendous damage. Some areas of Florida have comm
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07/06/2012
Recently, I mentioned Student Housing as an investment strategy since I now have three children in college and housing is always an issue. There never seems to be enough and what is available is very often higher per square foot than complexes that do not allow students. Warning, even thought t
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07/04/2012
I will be posting different Investment Property strategies over the next few weeks. Is the reason I am starting with the category of Student Housing because I now officially have three children in college? Jason is at University of South Florida studying Engineering to build prosthetics (has As
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06/22/2012
