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Rental property investments require cash, but much more valuable landlording skills
Given the current housing recovery, the investment segment’s price boosts, the still relatively low cost of investment rental homes and hot demand from housing consumers who can’t buy, investment rental deals should pencil out – in theory.
Gen Yers buying homes sooner than expected in Silicon Valley
Generation Y or Gen Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, is poised to be the next big demographic to enter the housing market. Gen Y elders are already
April is ‘Fair Housing Month,’ for good reason
Welcome to National Fair Housing Month. On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, an expansion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The
Why your neighbors hate you
Your dog's a pig, your lawn is scrub land, your driveway looks like a campground and your garage band sounds like someone is banging on all that junk
HUD rolls out fair housing app
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today unveiled the first housing discrimination mobile application (app) for iPhone
New home building recovery’s labor shortage makes new home inspection mandatory
You'll be asking to suffer through building defects if you plan to buy a new home from the current supply on the assembly line and don't also make
Vacation rental owners cashing in on Austin’s 2013 SXSW
The impending influx of South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) visitors will give the Austin, TX vacation home rental market a big boost this spring. An estimated
Looking for love in all the right places
If your journey for love is on its last legs and being on the make has been so unproductive that you're moved to leave town to hook up,
2013 housing starts to approach 1 million mark
"The possibility of one million starts in 2013 should not be dismissed as all 50 states will see increases in single family housing this year." PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION -
Tips for first-time landlords
You can't or don't want to sell your existing home. You can move to another home for less than the income you could get for renting your home.
NAR: The Digital House Hunt
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS - The National Association of Realtors, in conjunction with Google.com, recently released "The Digital House Hunt: Consumer and Market Trends in Real Estate" to
Silicon Valley doubles down on small spaces as market posts gains in condo sector
MLSLISTINGS, INC. - Four years after the crash, housing's "new normal" is anything but. With double-digit price increases and multiple competing offers the talk of the Bay Area
California Homeowner Bill of Rights effective Jan. 1, 2013
New consumer protections for California homeowners are effective Jan. 1 2013. The California Homeowner Bill of Rights (CHBR), extends key mortgage and foreclosure protections to California homeowners and
Feds select CalHFA to help ease chronic homelessness
Photo: NeighborWebSJ.com CALIFORNIA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY - The federal government selected California, among five other states, to participate in a groundbreaking federal program to help ease chronic homelessness, an
Infographic: What do new home buyers want?
Quality construction, neighborhood safety and floor plans they can live with are the three most important features buyers want in a newly built home, according to Builder Homesite’s
Vacation getaways aboard vessels that anchor your wanderlust for waterway stays
Vacation rental property owners serve up some unique stays - countryside yurts, cave apartments, sidetracked railway cars, sky-high tree houses, and conch seashell shaped getaways, to name just
Infographic: How to rent your existing home to cover an underwater mortgage
Homeowners stuck with a mortgage larger than the value of their home, can cash in on rising rents by renting out their existing home to move up, down
Reemerged vacation property investment market paying dividends
"Even owners with properties in destinations where summer is typically an off-season have reported a good season in terms of occupancy." If you capitalized on news about the recovering
Single-family home demand boosts new home starts by 2.3%
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS - Nationwide housing production rose 2.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 750,000 units in August, according to newly released figures
Infographic: Buying a new home vs. a used home, a new home vs. renting
Consider purchasing a home and the choice between buying a newly built home or buying an existing home inevitably arises. In a potentially self-serving infographic, Schumacher Homes' data leans



















