real estate

My girlfriend is a real estate agent - in Kingston, Ontario - she once related a story to me she came across in a training course early in her career. The story involves the sale of an alleged hunted house and the buyers subsequent legal action against the seller for non-disclosure of this...

We are finally in the market to get us a nicely priced foreclosure. When we take a look of those put on the market by the banks (I assume), we find some nice deals. But the moment we show interest, the deals are gone. We are in a very early part of looking into this, but it seems that a lot of...

Why Home Prices Are Double Dipping So the tax credit increased the deficit and merely postponed the bottom. There's various other subsidies to home buyers too, such as the mortgage interest rate deduction, and Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie. All of these of course increase the deficit, while...

An hypothetical situation, presented at another website... Joe wants to buy another house as income property. For some vague reason, his bank says that he's "reached his limit" on the number of houses he can own, so he wants to perform the following actions: 1. He will give Hank the money to...

I am looking at buying a home in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. I want to be able to sell it without too much pain again in 5 years or so. My question is this: In a metroplex that still has growing areas -- where people can buy new homes, or have new homes made, if they are willing to commute -- is...

I read about a new book "Sell your house with Feng Shui" here: http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/341762.html What troubled me was that the usually skeptically-minded Sac Bee put this in the Business section; they usually put this crap in "Scene". Debunking Feng Shui is especially difficult...

Has anyone ever heard of anyone studying real estate using the Donald Trump method having made a million per the Learning Annex claim (see below)? Or does the following just sound a lot like they are exploiting Trump’s name, er, for a price? (obviously)...