You've been to the seminars, read the books, perhaps for years now and still you're sitting there safely at home afraid to extend your big toe one more inch into the world of actual real estate investing. Guess what, friend?...
Not many of us are able to plunk down a large enough pile of cash to finance an investment property without borrowing a little and, even if you have that kind of coin, there are more profitable endeavors to use it for than...
If you took our advice on purchasing an income property that makes sense the day you buy it, the issue should never arise that you're thinking of selling because the property is turning into a financial liability. While we...
Last time we revealed that Phoenix, Arizona, is open for business again when it comes to income property investing. It used to be on our list, dropped off for a while, but it's back on again. Normally, we don't hit you with...
Before you sit up abruptly and say, “Whoa, how did I miss the news that Phoenix was closed?”, let us reassure you that the city itself never went away, though Bonus Commission's income property referral network, Platinum...
If you learn nothing else from reading the Bonus Commissions blog, we hope you take away the idea that it makes no sense to believe real estate agent income is inhibited by local market conditions. That's not to say that...
Just when you thought all the news about the economy was bad, statistics released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that existing home sales leaped by the largest amount in 28 years during the month of September....
At the risk of sounding like Stan, the restaurant manager you want to punch in the face in the cult classic movie Office Space, do you really want to just do the bare minimum? While Stan's concern was that waitress Joanna...
There's certainly no shortage of creative inspiration in the world when it comes to inventing a business around a single catchy idea – sometimes a single, crazed, why-would anyone-ever-use-this idea. If there's one thing...
A few years ago we didn't recommend foreclosures at all. Most of them had been seriously abused by tenants, with some in need of a complete gut and rebuild from the ground up. It's tough to make a deal cash flow under those...
