Table of Contents for Real Estate Investment Strategy
Volume 2 by John T. Reed
There’s gold in them thar settlement statements 1
Check your annual loan statements, too 3
Outappraising the market 3
Positive cash flow practically impossible in rental houses 5
How you should think about bear market problems 5
Finding value by using a sharper pencil 7
Ponzi Syndrome may be more dangerous than Ponzi Scheme 10
‘Seller’s market’ in some areas is really a buyer’s market 11
NAFTA and real estate 11
Natural disasters and real estate 13
Nonconforming uses 14
Hedging real estate 17
Balkanization of the real estate market 21
Prepare the deed yourself 22
‘March to the Sound of the Guns’ 22
The Bronx is up and the Beanery’s down 23
Are you an evener? 24
Checklist of possible buyers for your property 25
You should use direct mail 26
Do real estate agents steal the best listings? 27
Craigslist.org 28
What if values don’t always go up? 30
Credits at closing 31
Double-digit cap rates 32
The meaning of Houston 32
The $90,000 stone’s throw 33
Anchorage revisited 34
A way to get out of real estate tax-free 34
Short sales and taxes 37
There is no boilerplate 40
Political violence and your real estate 42
Can you spot hot markets in advance? 44
The value of perfect information 48
Exchanging into equity sharing 51
Equity sharing 55
Working for the government 62
Jon Richards’ note system 64
Deals that make sense: Smart trust deed investing 67
Opportunities and hazards in wetlands 71
Divorce and real estate 74
Money and the 21st Century 78
Real Estate in the 21st Century 81
Don’t split up small properties 83
We can’t all be contrarians 83
Used partnerships for sale 84
Cash flow, pride, and absentee investors in Seattle 84
You should wire loan payoffs 84
Adjoining property run down 84
Eleven percent cap rate investor heard from 85
Rooming houses 85
‘Insisting on breakeven’ 85
No good office buildings (recently) 86
Index 87