New! (December 27) We are now indexing 1,000 blogs! Also, we're announcing a previously undocumented feature already in use on a few
personal finance blogs.
Viewing entries for View all blogs (popular) | Personal finance (popular) | Real estate (popular) | Investing (popular) | Visit
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 18, 2008 at 1:26 pm ET
Well, the potential renter never panned out and my rental is still empty. There have been some other people who looked at the place and, according to the property manager, the problem is with the ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 13, 2008 at 4:33 pm ET
Mortgage companies must be hurting for business right now because I was shocked at a commercial I heard on the radio this morning. In an attempt to get people to refinance their mortgages, it used ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 11, 2008 at 1:53 pm ET
Time for an update on my potential multi-unit investment.The short version: I don't think it's gonna happen.The longer version: The buyers have not raised enough money to be able to buy the place. They were ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 4, 2008 at 2:38 pm ET
I was pleasantly surprised to see an article titled The Case For Foreclosures on Slate.com the other day. Finally, someone was taking a critical look at the recent desire by Congress to "do something" about ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 29, 2008 at 11:25 am ET
I spoke with the owner of my property management company yesterday to get a status on the potential renter. Turns out, both the leasing agent and the potential tenant have the flu, so no paperwork ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 28, 2008 at 9:43 am ET
My daughter is 4 years old and she will be getting her tonsils out soon. Yesterday, the doctor gave her a comic book that explains the procedure. Apparently, they are preparing her for a career ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 25, 2008 at 3:21 pm ET
I say likely, because it's not official yet. A potential renter saw the property on Saturday and wanted to make sure I was ok with his dog before he signed a lease. Actually, he asked ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 21, 2008 at 3:26 pm ET
It's been a slow week, mostly because I caught some sort of bug that knocked me flat on my back for a couple of days. I'm still getting over it, but the worst appears to ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 6, 2008 at 11:43 am ET
Time for another update on the four LLCs I am invested in that flip foreclosures in the San Fransisco area.Times are indeed hard in the California real estate market. I received a letter from the ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 30, 2008 at 10:23 am ET
I finally got a few minutes to call my management company yesterday to see what the status of Rental #1 is. As I mentioned before, I noticed that they had raised the asking rent from ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm ET
It's looking like I will be making my first foray into the world of multi-unit properties (aka apartments) this month. There is still a possibility other investors might fill up the available slots before I ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2008 at 10:24 am ET
Just got back from a quick trip to Las Vegas, where my wife and I stayed at The Wynn. We got an offer in the mail for a discounted room rate plus $100 in money ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 15, 2008 at 1:38 pm ET
Last year, I wrote about a tax credit that you could claim for the telephone excise tax that has been collected on phone bills for years. If you took the credit, the IRS also paid ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 8, 2008 at 3:57 pm ET
The tenants in my Tulsa rental property moved out on November 1. While I was glad to see them go, I was not particularly thrilled about the timing of their notice. I didn't really expect ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 2, 2008 at 2:30 pm ET
Now that the holiday madness is dying down, I've got some time to look back over what I did in real estate last year and see if I achieved the goals I set out last ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 19, 2007 at 7:51 pm ET
Well, not 100% yet, but it is close enough now that I feel comfortable writing about it.The last time I wrote about this, the mortgage holders had a conference call to determine how we should ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 19, 2007 at 2:51 pm ET
I was watching A Charlie Brown Christmas the other night with my wife and daughter and was surprised by the shrewd financial savvy of Lucy. This is an exchange she has with Charlie Brown:Lucy: I ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 18, 2007 at 12:04 pm ET
The Louisiana deal is still dragging on.. Hopefully it will be done today and I can post what's been happening..In the meantime, I am asking for some help, particularly from any readers in Germany.My father-in-law ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 14, 2007 at 9:34 am ET
Anonymous asked for an update on the four LLCs I am invested in that flip properties in the San Francisco area. There is not much news that is different from my last update on these. ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 6, 2007 at 9:16 am ET
My experiment in reselling a Wii for some extra cash is now over. I am a bit disappointed in the results, but I still came out ahead, so it wasn't a total failure.My eBay auction ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 4, 2007 at 1:11 pm ET
I got my tax bill in the mail for the next year's property taxes at Rental #1 and got a nice surprise. When I was analyzing the property before purchasing it, I used the tax ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 30, 2007 at 4:35 pm ET
Last year, Tickle Me Elmo was the hot Christmas gift and Kenric did what many others did to capitalize on the craze - buy a bunch and resell them. This year, the hot gift seems ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 29, 2007 at 12:12 pm ET
Things are slowing getting back to normal here. After being gone for a week and coming back and having to rebuild my computer after it crashed, I'm slowly starting to gain control over the items ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm ET
Phew.. I just got off a 1.5 hour conference call with the other mortgage holders on the Louisiana mortgage that is going to foreclosure a week from today. We basically went over the various options ... ( more)
From Shaun's Real Estate Adventures - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 16, 2007 at 9:43 am ET
I'm heading off to Kansas today for the Thanksgiving holiday, so there won't be any posts for a while. My PC also crashed and I'm having an extremely difficult time re-installing Windows, so even when ... ( more)
|
|