Working with Real Estate Investors
As a real estate professional, it's imperative that you know the goals of real estate investors, the real estate investment choices available to them, and the financial and tax ramifications of each.
Before you start investing in real estate, know the math to identify good opportunities and manage them for profit. Understand the issues landlords face. Understand leverage, mortgage options, property suitability evaluation, and repairs and maintenance issues.
Keep track of what's happening in home prices with these updated charts of the Case-Shiller Home Price Composite 20 Index and the OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight) for three months, one year and five years.
Before you start investing in real estate, know the math to identify good opportunities and manage them for profit. Understand the issues landlords face. Understand leverage, mortgage options, property suitability evaluation, and repairs and maintenance issues.
Real estate investing can realize profits in many different ways. You can be passive or active as a landlord or buy, convert and improve properties.
Sometimes the ideal situation for investment is right under your nose. If you're moving locally, it might be a good idea to use your current home as a real estate investment.
As an agent or broker working with real estate investors, know the best property selection strategies when your client is using leverage.
Get a spreadsheet for the latest S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index here.
