Do you have a great passion for wine but very little space to display your wine bottles? That’s not a problem at all. Many people are able to create the perfect custom wine cellar despite their limited space and budget. The following are great guidelines for turning what little space you have into a beautiful…
Category: Real Estate
Broken Promises and Superstorm Sandy
Bureaucratic processes never cease to amaze me by how long they take to go by. My partner and I own a business of 20 years located in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. It is a small event management company that caters for all kinds of occasions, from baptisms and ceremonies to weddings and 50th anniversaries,…
Buy a house? Beware of these real estate agent tricks
This is the second in a three-part series warning home buyers and sellers about the top tricks real estate agents use to steal their money. These articles are meant to help you avoid getting fleeced by your real estate agent. sell to buyers Although we all know that agents act for sellers, many are experts…
Duties of REO Agents and Why Banks Need Them
Listing a property for sale and finding and selecting qualified buyers for this property are the responsibilities of a real estate agent or broker, but REO agents have more responsibilities than brokers. Real estate agents sometimes jump into selling REO properties as well because these properties are earning opportunities for the agents. Agents should not…
Can’t sell your house? consider this
If you’re having trouble selling your home in the current economic downturn, there are options. Many people have had their houses on the market for 6, 7, 8 months or longer without any offers. You may need to sell your home due to a job transfer, divorce, increased family size, or perhaps your payments are…
Property Subdivision: Developing Your A-Team
As a developer, your role is to take a project from the conception of an idea, through all stages of design and approval, financing, construction and marketing, and finally leasing or selling the project. Successful real estate developers are a bit like movie producers. They assemble a team of highly talented people and skillfully direct…
Tips and information for buying land
As a registered real estate agent and forester, I have some qualifications to write about buying and selling rural real estate, primarily land. I have sold millions of acres as a real estate agent and managed millions of acres as a ranger since 1973. If you are considering buying rural land, this article can help…
Cris Chico – Who is he and why should you listen to him?
Today, there are so many real estate investment experts with products to sell that it can be hard to decide who to follow and learn from, but Cris Chico is one of the few real estate investment experts with a unique approach to profiting from real estate investing in this troubled economy. Who is Cris…
Wealth Building Strategies to Achieve Financial Freedom
It drives me crazy when I hear people talk about that particular investment or wealth building strategy as the only way to go. Some people are so caught up in just property or just business or just stocks and they wear black and blue that this is the only way to do it and the…
"You left me," a discussion of Emily Dickinson’s poem
You left me, sweet, two legacies, – a legacy of love A Heavenly Father would be happy, If I had the offer of; you left me borders of pain wide as the sea, between eternity and time, Your conscience and me. “You Left Me” is an incredibly concise poem. It communicates two immense ideas in…