Real Estate Investment Strategy Volume 2 table of contents
- There’s gold in them thar settlement statements 1
- Check your annual loan statements, too 3
- Outappraising the market 3
- Positive cash flow practically impossible in rental houses 5
- How you should think about bear market problems 5
- Finding value by using a sharper pencil 7
- Ponzi Syndrome may be more dangerous than Ponzi Scheme 10
- ‘Seller’s market’ in some areas is really a buyer’s market 11
- NAFTA and real estate 11
- Natural disasters and real estate 13
- Nonconforming uses 14
- Hedging real estate 17
- Balkanization of the real estate market 21
- Prepare the deed yourself 22
- ‘March to the Sound of the Guns’ 22
- The Bronx is up and the Beanery’s down 23
- Are you an evener? 24
- Checklist of possible buyers for your property 25
- You should use direct mail 26
- Do real estate agents steal the best listings? 27
- Craigslist.org 28
- What if values don’t always go up? 30
- Credits at closing 31
- Double-digit cap rates 32
- The meaning of Houston 32
- The $90,000 stone’s throw 33
- Anchorage revisited 34
- A way to get out of real estate tax-free 34
- Short sales and taxes 37
- There is no boilerplate 40
- Political violence and your real estate 42
- Can you spot hot markets in advance? 44
- The value of perfect information 48
- Exchanging into equity sharing 51
- Equity sharing 55
- Working for the government 63
- Jon Richards’ note system 64
- Deals that make sense: Smart trust deed investing 67
- Opportunities and hazards in wetlands 71
- Divorce and real estate 74
- Money and the 21st Century 78
- Real Estate in the 21st Century 80
- Don’t split up small properties 82
- Used partnerships for sale 82
- Eleven percent cap rate investor heard from 83
- ‘Insisting on breakeven’ 84
- No good office buildings (recently) 84
- Index 85