Rent to Own Helps Utah Families Keep Homes

May 26, 2010

Yesterday, I unexpectedly stopped by the office of my investor friend, Brian. He was helping a young family keep their home from going into foreclosure. Instead of him trying to buy their home, he was tutoring them in how to use rent to own to save their Utah home. After the family left, Brian explained [...]

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New Utah Rent to Own Ogden Mobile Home

May 13, 2010

Click to Enlarge Hi friends. I have another mobile home that I just got. This is a carpet layer’s special and needs work but I’m seller financing it at a great price. The home has a really nice shed in the back. The yard is pretty big and the home has a really nice looking [...]

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NEW Utah Mobile Home Listing — Ogden, Utah

May 6, 2010

Spacious mobile home with huge yard! Yard is the biggest one in the park and is full of fruit trees. This is a fixer upper and for a limited time I’m pricing it really low to see if you want to get a deal and do the repairs yourself. House is great in terms of [...]

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Real Estate Advertising on Car

May 6, 2010

So, I’ve come up with another idea for finding people who want to sell their house. I think putting a very catchy website domain in vinyl letters on the back window of a car will generate between 1 and 10 calls a week. I have a friend that sells ukuleles and he advertises via catchy [...]

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Google Local Business for Real Estate

May 4, 2010

So, I’ve created various business profiles using Google Places (this is what google calls their local business listings). These are especially helpful to real estate people who are doing business in a local area because google bases local search results based on the location in the world of the IP address on the computer you [...]

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SellHomeUtah.com & SellUtahHouses.com — New Website Optimized for Google

April 30, 2010

So, I’ve just made another website–Sell Home Utah. This is a new experiment in trying to find people who are doing google searches to sell their Utah home. I am excited to see how it works! Some of the cool features of this website include a very simple navigation and very few words and pictures. [...]

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Is a Condo a Good Investment?

April 28, 2010

Well, the short answer is no. Let me explain. 1) The Market for Condos is very Volatile Richard Swerdlow, an authority on the condo market, observed that “When it comes to valuation [of a condo] they exhibit a lot of volatility, much more so than a single-family residence.” In the boom years preceding the current [...]

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Real Estate Prediction

April 25, 2010

For some the economy is looking better…at least that’s what we’ve been hearing on the news for the past several months.  Yet the fundamental problems that tanked our economy haven’t gone away. Real Estate Prediction #1 – Home Foreclosures Aren’t Going Away Any Time Soon Home foreclosures in 2009 were at a record high and [...]

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New Utah Rent to Own Video–Rent to Own & Seller Financing Explained

April 21, 2010

So, I’ve made my first Utah Rent to Own youtube video. I thought it would be fun to summarize my Utah Rent to Own Program in a few minutes, so here we go: Basically my video shows in short and simple terms how to own a home through rent to own. As I explain, one [...]

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Ogden Mobile Home **PRICE SLASHED BY $1000**

April 15, 2010

So, I’d rather give someone a good deal and show this home once or twice than get $1000 more and take more calls. I just don’t want to mess. I guess that tells you I’m an investor–I’d rather go out and focus on buying houses than focus on getting the current market value for the [...]

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Ogden Mobile Home for Sale

April 12, 2010

Well, I’ve got a brand new listing–a spacious mobile home for sale in Ogden Utah.  I’m selling this one at $6995, which is a pretty good price for this home. Will go fast. I’ve seen lots of comparable homes sell for around $10,000-$12,000 in the same park. Speaking of the park, this mobile home is [...]

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Seller Financing and the Pyschology of a Home Owner

April 11, 2010

During the Great Depression, home foreclosure reached an all time high at about 10% of all homes being bank owned Foreclosure Stats). Interestingly enough, homes that were owner occupied were the last homes to get foreclosed upon and the stats for owner occupied home foreclosures was significantly lower. How do we explain this phenomena? The [...]

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Utah Rent to Own: How to Own a House When Your Credit is Bad

April 6, 2010

Renting to own with my Utah Rent to Own program has a couple of advantages that you need to be aware of, namely, you can be building equity in your home while you are both working on your credit and saving up a larger downpayment. Unlike most of my rent to own competitors in Utah, [...]

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2 Newest Utah Rent to Own Homes Listings

April 4, 2010

So I just got two new houses. The first is a Utah Rent to Own house on 2520 Harrison Ave, Ogden, Utah. This is a cool house because it has a big fenced yard–about 1/4 acre or more. It is also a sturdy house that is made out of brick. The area is a pretty [...]

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