How far away should your investment property be?

How far away can you live from your investment? This depends on three factors: the size of the investment, the type of investment and the amount of management you have. A small property being managed by you should be close enough to make it convenient for you to visit the building to show vacant apartments or attend to problems. If your investment is a large one, where resident management handles every thing, you can live in a different city or state if you wish.

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Real estate investment Q&A #2

We have received a lot of feedbacks and comments from readers which help us to improve the contents of this blog and make reijb.com a place of discussion about real estate investment. We hereby summarised some of the questions and answers which you may have missed but yet interested.

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Is the worst over for real estate investment trust (REIT)?

The market has discounted REIT shares to levels that anticipate a drawn-out period of deteriorating fundamentals. They are trading at steep discounts to asset values. The single most important factor affecting a recovery will be the course of the economy. It is likely things will get a bit worse before they get better. There has never been more fiscal and monetary stimulus thrown at the world’s economies. Mortgage rates are down. Mortgage refinancing is up. Spreads are starting to narrow between different grades of securities. But it is going to take time because the economic and financial crisis is just too big.

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Real estate investment Q&A #1

reijb.com is going to enter into her 5th month. We have received a lot of feedbacks and comments from readers which help us to improve the contents of this blog and make reijb.com a place of discussion about real estate investment. We hereby summarised some of the questions and answers which you may have missed but yet interested.

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Property details to check before you buy an investment property

Before you get involved with the detailed analysis of income, expenses and financing for the investment real estate that you wanted, you need to find out more about it such as age of the property, rental history, neighborhood, building condition, amenities, parking, furnished or unfurnished. These basic details concerning the property you want to purchase will add to your evaluation of the investment.

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