Buying in a Down Market, and Finding Ideal Tenents


Related to the business of investing in fixer upper houses, I’d like to share with you a couple of good articles I came across recently.

5 Tips for Buying a Home in a Down Market
by Bankaholic.com

The subprime mortgage bust has scared a lot of people away from the shaky housing market. The nightly news is filled with images and stories of everyday Americans who are losing their homes because they made greedy and uninformed decisions, they were taken advantage of by predatory brokers, or a combination of these situations. However, the news isn’t all bad. This decline in the market has dropped prices and made housing affordable to many fiscally responsible renters who never considered home ownership to be an option.

If you find yourself house-hunting, make sure that you follow these five simple steps to take advantage of this downturn in the market; if you don’t, you could be the next sad story on your local news. Click here for full article.

What Makes an Ideal Tenant?
by Resty Malia

Who are the Folks That Makes an Ideal Tenant?

Finding the right tenant is a common challenge that most property managers encounters at one point or another in their life. The following bits and pieces of information in this article will allow you to have a better idea in picking the right or ideal tenant.

Searching for the right tenant can be simple or even a challenge sometime, but having an idea of the different types of America’s work force qualities as tenants could help you decide and screen the right and ideal tenant for your property.

So you have done your credit check with your prospective tenant ( you done it, right?) and now you’re probably wondering what part of the demographics would make an ideal tenant.

Generally there are Four (4) Population Strata or Groups where your prospective tenants will be coming from. Click here for full article.

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