Every year, millions of college students flood into college cities and towns in North Carolina. Those students, along with the faculty and staff at their schools, have one common need: housing. Consistent demand for housing makes college and university communities attractive to people interested in real estate investing.  Recently North Carolina area colleges have been included in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report list of the country’s best colleges.  Now seems to be the best time to invest in properties in college towns where housing demand is high due to a soaring rental market according to the New rules of real estate by Business 2.0 Magazine.  With home prices still out of home buyer’s range, and financing more and more difficult to find, rents are expected to increase nationwide. This makes buying investment property in rental markets such as college towns an attractive option, one that is already being pursued by investors. Rents are expected to rise by 5 % by the end of this year according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), and investors are looking at college towns with increased interest. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by: Jason Rodriguez 

Let’s face it the majority of us aren’t independently wealthy and haven’t won the lottery. The reason we got into real estate investing was to generate cash profits into our bank accounts for financial security for ourselves and family, at least that’s why I started.

 From my experience, Wholesaling is the quickest way to make a sale in real estate. Some investors refer to “wholesaling” as “flipping”, either way you look at it the bottom line remains the same, Wholesaling Equals Big Bucks. Read the rest of this entry »

 What is ‘Wholesale Real Estate’? It is simply the act of providing discount priced real estate deals to ready, willing and able investors, and sometimes ‘retail’ buyers as well.    

One major NC city is among 10 cities that’s primed for a real estate recovery.  The Raleigh/Durham area is likely to escape the commercial real estate scourge and transition soon to a bona fide recovery.  Raleigh has a vacancy rate of 14.7%, up 3.6 points from last year, 2008. 

A mix of government jobs, higher ed, health care, and technology has helped this progressive area pull off a neat trick: Population is growing at a healthy 3 percent rate, but the unemployment rate remains one of the lowest in the state. Vacancy rates will rise slightly in 2010 and some tenants will get a break on rent, but metro Read the rest of this entry »