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By:  Skyler Moore

The price correction in the Denver real estate market has created a lucrative investment property opportunity for real estate investors.  Properties can be acquired at distressed prices through public trustee sales, short sales, or directly through asset managers at banks.  Often, the acquisition price is below replacement costs to build the property.
Seasoned and new real estate investors have been flocking to public trustee sales to learn more about the process and the opportunity at hand.  What most investors find, is encouraging, but also discouraging.  The encouraging part, is that deals …

By: Skyler Moore

Now is the time to buy!  Get in on a once in a life time opportunity!  Don’t miss out on historic real estate prices!  Any of these phrases sound familiar?  They do to me.  I’ve been seeing them in my inbox for the past year on a daily basis promoting Southwest Florida Investment Property.
I have been fortunate to live up North during the Summers and South during the past five winters.  Four of those five winters have been in Southwest Florida, while the other was in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico …

By: Skyler Moore

Financing Denver investment property can be difficult in any real estate market, especially if the investor is a business owner that shows a fluctuating income.  Banks are very strict with lending criteria currently and in my opinion often try and find a reason why not to lend money, opposed to reasons why they should lend money to a borrower.  I have seen individuals with enough liquid cash to cover the loan have difficulties qualifying.
A growing number of real estate investors feel now is a great time to take advantage of the …

The mantra for investment property advice today is to stick to the fundamentals that will yield positive cash flow.  Long gone are the speculators that have fueled the real estate bubble.   In the boom years real estate investors ( or better called speculators ) would buy a property and try and flip it for a quick cash out the strategy was a hope of quick equity gains. Today real estate investors are returning to the fundamentals, and the key is cash flow, they are holding and renting for solid, steady …

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Investors all across the country have been burnt by purchasing a proforma, rather than an investment property.  I personally have seen this happen over and over again in the Denver market for both residential and commercial investment properties.  Sure property values have dropped, which has caused real estate owners to become upside down, but often the proforma numbers they were given were set up for failure.
Evaluating real estate is quite simple once you know what you are doing, it just takes some experience.  One of the first things that …

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The Denver real estate market has several attractive areas for investment property depending on an investor’s preferences.  The Denver metro area has several trendy neighborhoods going through drastic transformations.  The highlands area for example has 100 year old properties undergoing major renovations.  In some cases properties are torn down to accommodate new modern buildings and town home developments.  This is also happening in areas like Sloan’s lake that use to be considered a rougher area of town.
The transformation of these properties allow new home owner’s to live in historic …

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A huge factor of success in owning investment property is keeping it rented with tenants that pay on time.  The dream tenant seldom calls the landlord, pays rent in a timely manner and well maintains the property.
The reality for real estate investors is finding all 3 of these attributes can be very difficult.  It does happen and is ideal for investment property owners, but waiting around for a tenant that possess all three can result in vacant months, leaving the landlord with negative cash flow.  If an real estate investor can …

It’s been a few years now since the first signs of trouble began emerging in the U.S. housing and real estate market. Standard & Poor’s just released the latest Case-Shiller Home Price data so where do we stand now?   Market pundits have been cheering the percentage price gains in the Case-Shiller Home Price Index for several months and telling bearish investors to forget the past and go right back to the same assumptions that caused the real estate crises in the first place.   To support their theory, they simply …

Investors Cash in on Denver’s Price to Rent Ratios
Investors all across the country are capitalizing on great price to rent ratios in the metro Denver area for strong cash flow.  Denver real estate was hit hard like most major markets during the housing correction, but has seen an increase of 12.1% from June of 2009 to an average sales price of $190,500.  The key to avoiding negative cash flow properties is to stick with numbers based on sound due diligence of the local market.
The Denver area varies in price drastically by …