When people begin to consider investing in real estate, they usually think of investing within or near their own cities. While investing in your immediate area can be beneficial because its familiar turf, it may create a narrow perspective of the overall available real estate market and rule out far better options for ROI.

A broader scope of opportunities entails crossing county, state, and perhaps even international, boundaries. (more…)

When folks find out that I buy houses from distressed homeowners during the preforeclosure stage, they always ask the same question: “How do you find them?” My simplest answer is: “At the courthouse.”

Distressed properties are always easiest to find when a mortgage lender begins the foreclosure process. (The process is triggered when the borrower fails to make a mortgage payment.) Technically speaking this is the “pre-foreclosure” stage. (more…)

The administration of President Barrack Obama released a program called Foreclosure Prevention Program. It stands to help millions of struggling Americans on mortgage. Thereby, they get to keep the homes at times of especially tough economic conditions. (more…)