Lease Option Benefits

For those with poor credit history and those who cannot outright buy a residential property, the best selection for you would be the lease option. It’s like rent-to-own, but you’re still given the option to either rent or buy the property.
Here are the benefits:

  • For landlord or investors, the rental that he or she will receive from the tenant will be more upfront.
  • Another benefit for a landlord or an investor is higher rent.
  • Higher sales price is also another benefit for the landlord or investor.
  • In a common or typical rental agreement, the landlord is the one who assumes the maintenance cost of the property.
  • In a lease option agreement, better tenants are attracted.
  • Another benefit of a lease option is that the landlord does not have to totally renovate the residential property.
  • When the property has been sold, the landlord’s responsibilities are lessened

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    The Roller Coaster of Business

    Life in the Real Estate business is like a roller coaster, it wasn’t so long ago that values were going up the stratosphere. However, when you’ve reached the mountain top there’s no other place for you to go but down. And that ‘s what’s happening now. The Real Estate Boom has now gone bust.

    The statistics are staggering. According to Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, 14 major cities has posted double-digit lows for single-family home values. Generally, it’s been down 12% since December 2006 with a possiblity of going further down by 10% by end of 2008.

    The biggest culprit for this downturn: rampant speculation on property values during the past several years. “The areas that have seen a huge amount of speculation…are the ones that got nailed,” says Blitzer. “The farther up prices went the farther down they’ve come.”

    Listed below is the five most hard hit cities:
    1.Las Vegas
    2.Miami
    3.Phoenix
    4.Los Angeles
    5.San Diego

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    Insurance Agents Changes Policies

    Adapt or die: that is evolution in a nutshell. This not only applies to the natural world but also to business; and the insurance world is a business nonetheless. With the changes brought upon by the Internet, almost everything is free for the downloading.

    It’s no surprise then that what the insurance companies used to keep near their chests are now out in the open for everyone to see. They have now freely posted previously withheld information in the Internet. This information provides the brokers with just enough information to give buyers a one-site stop for all their real estate needs.

    “It’s a natural evolution of competition and what consumers want,” said C. Robert Hale III, chief executive of the Houston Association of Realtors, which operates the area’s M.L.S. “The consumer wants to see everything.”

    Will this change the current way agents and brokers sell? We’ll know in a few months.

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    Waiting Out the Storm

    It’s hard to read the news lately about the real estate in the US. It’s been down for quite a while now and it won’t get any better soon. So in the meantime, what can the real estate do to alleviate this sickness? According to Jennifer Allan, real estate broker, author and consultant, here are tips on making sure that what you sell won’t be sitting on the list forever:

  • Price is King. Properties must be priced more aggressively than their competition to even be shown, much result in an offer.
  • Condition is Queen. A home that evokes a negative or even a neutral first impression has little chance of selling.
  • Accessibility rounds out the top three. If a listing is hard to show, regardless of the reason, it will be passed over.

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    Investors Buy Up Foreclosed Properties

    buyingforeclosedHuge investment firms and people are buying up tons of foreclosed properties in many urban areas to sell them off when the economy recovers. This is a trend seen in the real estate industry as people lose homes, these people like buzzards to a carcass takes them in as investments, adding them to their already huge inventories. (more…)

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