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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Real Estate Investing Financing Sources In Orlando – The 4 You Should Be Using Right Now | Eugene Hoffman

Real Estate Investing Financing Sources In Orlando – The 4 You Should Be Using Right Now

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We are dedicated to helping working families or singles with a fair and trustworthy path to home-ownership through this incredible rent to own program. The Financial crisis has created many reasons households in Orlando cannot obtain a mortgage, despite the fact they have a stable source of income and the ability to pay.
Who else needs financing for their real estate investing deals? If you invest, you’re probably looking for real estate investing financing sources in Orlando… well, look no further because here are the only 4 you’ll ever need to do as many deals as you want to do.
As a real estate investor, you know that acquiring deals takes capital. And unfortunately, some investors reach the end of their money and are forced to stop investing long before they reach their real estate goals. The good news is, you don’t have to fall into the same trap. When you tap into these 4 sources, you’ll have access to all the money you need to do as many deals as you want!

Real Estate Investing Financing Sources In Orlando #1 – Financial Institutions

This is the way that most people know about, and it’s still a tried-and-true way to do more deals. When you use institutional financing such as banks and mortgage companies, you’re using the principles of leverage and other people’s money to do your deal. As long as you have the down payment and some available “room” in your credit, you can acquire deals. Lowe's Home Improvement store offers extended financing at zero percent interest on orders over $300. Some investors use zero percent credit cards or take cash advances when he or she finds a great deal.

Real Estate Investing Financing Sources In Orlando #2 – Hard Money And Private Money

These are similar to banks in that they’ll lend you money in exchange for interest payments but the difference is: they may not require a credit score or a down payment; in many cases, they’ll probably just secure the loan against the value of the property itself. So you can acquire multiple deals with the power of hard money and private money. 

Monday, February 10, 2014

Republican Party Platform of 1956

This was a viable program and at the I was born this was the direction the United states of America was heading.


President Eisenhower has given the world bold proposals for mutual arms reduction and protection against aggression through flying sentinels in an "open sky."
We support this and his further offer of United States participation in an international fund for economic development financed from the savings brought by true disarmament. We approve his determined resistance to disarmament without effective inspection.
We work and pray for the day when the domination of any people from any source will have ended, and when there will be liberation and true freedom for the hundreds of millions of individuals now held in subjugation. We shall continue to dedicate our best efforts to this lofty purpose.
We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.
We shall continue to oppose the seating of Communist China in the United Nations.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

My opinion of inflation looking at housing prices. The Case Shilling History of Home Values


What is the True rate of Inflation



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The inflation rate reported by the US Government has been more or less 3% since 1990. Three factors may effect our "Standard of Living" regardless of the CPI calculations. One is the rising cost of housing shown by the Case Shilling "History of Home Values. The CPI is calculated based on the "House Price - Rent Ratio. The second factor is the "Declining Median Household Income adjusted for Inflation". A Third factor  is the staggering cost of education.



 Housing cost almost doubled between 1995 and July 2006. The chart to the right is from The Case Shilling Report. Housing cost typically make one-third of a family's budget. If the biggest part a family's budget rises eight percent a year the "True Cost of Inflation" must be much higher than the 3% stated value of CPI the government is reporting. It is true that housing values came down fifty percent in many parts of the US, but in 2013 the median housing cost rose again by nearly thirty percent.

The American family's "Standard of Living" has been declining because of improving productivity (overseas jobs and robotics).  The chart below shows both the actual median income and the "True Value" after adjusting for inflation.

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Median Household Income in the United States




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First off - what is median household income?

Paycheque - IllustrationAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, "household median income" is defined as "the amount which divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount."

The U.S. Census Bureau currently publishes median household income data from 1967 until present day.


YearNo. of HouseholdsNominal $Inflation Adjusted $
2012122,459,000$50,099$51,017
2011121,084,000$49,158$51,100
2010119,927,000$48,415$51,892
2009117,538,000$48,916$53,285
2008117,181,000$49,406$53,644
2007116,783,000$49,341$55,627
2006116,011,000$47,317$54,892
2005114,384,000$45,496$54,486
2004113,343,000$43,544$53,891
2003112,000,000$42,560$54,079
2002111,278,000$41,624$54,127
2001109,297,000$41,458$54,766
2000108,209,000$41,262$55,987
1999106,434,000$39,985$56,080
1998103,874,000$38,127$54,702
1997102,528,000$36,210$52,784
1996101,018,000$34,704$51,720
199599,627,000$33,238$50,978
199498,990,000$31,338$49,429
199397,107,000$30,210$48,884
199296,426,000$29,473$49,122
199195,669,000$28,875$49,529
199094,312,000$28,506$50,994
198993,347,000$27,391$51,681
198892,830,000$25,693$50,776
198791,124,000$24,489$50,389
198689,479,000$23,339$49,764
198588,458,000$22,109$48,063
198486,789,000$20,948$47,181
198385,407,000$19,494$45,760
198283,918,000$19,032$46,082
198183,527,000$17,974$46,205
198082,368,000$16,542$46,995
197980,776,000$15,090$48,520
197877,330,000$13,575$48,655
197776,030,000$12,132$46,842
197674,142,000$11,311$46,548
197572,867,000$10,531$45,788
197471,163,000$9,921$47,019
197369,859,000$9,226$48,557
197268,251,000$8,520$47,596
197166,676,000$7,896$45,641
197064,778,000$7,651$46,089
196963,401,000$7,292$46,449
196862,214,000$6,673$44,785
196760,813,000$6,140$42,934






-- U.S. Median Household Income Chart - 1975 - 2010 --

  

A popular topic of conversation at the dinner tables in 2013 has been "the Rich are getting Richer and the Poor are getting Poorer". Huge blocks of people in certain demographics are being squeezed possibly on three fronts. Students graduating before 2006 were able to get a fair paying job, get married and then buy a house at double the cost(after adjusting for inflation) of the previous generation. Also the chances are in 2009, when the foreclosures started this same demographic had huge student loans along with a high mortgage.  Many of these same people lost their job in 2009 so they lost everything, including their homes. Why then does not the CPI rate of inflation show this triple threat to our "Standard of Living?


A possible answer is the CPI rate is based on the price of home rentals. The price of renting a home rose at a steady rate until 2006/07 rents started rising faster. When the housing market crashed in 2009 rents only slightly declined. Renters had leases that stabilized their rent price. In 2010 when it was time to renew their leases people moved in two directions. The group of renters that lost their good jobs moved their families in with family or friends. The group of people who kept their job upgrade their home but was able to keep the same rent price range. That means people without income did not rent and people with income paid the same amount of rent. Therefore the calculation of rent prices for the CPI indicator calculates the inflation rate of housing at a low rate of inflation.

The people hurt by this effect were low-rent landlords and people who had both a high mortgage payment and student loans. In 2010 when people moved out of the leases many people were able to move into a much nicer neighborhood with better schools for the same rent price. Thousands of low-rent landlords had houses they could not rent. Landlords had long term vacancies and were not able to sell their properties for any price. Remember nobody was buying houses in 2010, The pace of existing home sales fell twenty-seven percent.

In conclusion three factors destroyed the "Standard of Living" for millions of Americans. Any one of the three factors may have affected the financial prosperity of millions of Americans, but some people experienced all three. Whether paying too much for a house during during the feeding frenzy for a seven year period or loosing a job during the "Financial Melt-down" combined with debt from credit cards or student loans caused millions of Americans to live with lower discretionary income. The time may have come where paying for a college education will not provide the life style benefits as the previous generation did.

Take a look.


Cost of education in 2013 dollars. This is staggering rate of inflation not shown in the CPI inflation

rate.

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Friday, January 24, 2014

The Boom And Collapse Of America's 'Subprime Generation' by Chris Porter

Talk about an amazing reversal of fortune! This may be the most amazing, underreported demographic fact today.
  • 30-34 year olds in 2012 had the lowest homeownership rate of any similarly aged group before them!
  • Five years prior, this exact same group had the highest homeownership rate at 25-29 years old than any group before them!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Vancouver’s housing prices 2nd most unaffordable in the world By Peter Meiszner


An urban planning think tank says Metro Vancouver has the second-highest housing prices in the world when compared to local incomes.
Demographia compared urban areas with over 1,000,000 residents in OECD countries around the world.
They say Vancouver’s “strong urban containment policies” have caused the city’s affordability to “deteriorate markedly.”

The average house price in Metro Vancouver is $670,300, which would require 80 per cent of the average median household income to service the mortgage. That’s more than 2.5 times the 32 per cent guideline set out by Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

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| -A A +A Housing Starts Soften After Last Month’s Highs by Daily Real Estate News

New-home construction posted its largest percentage decrease since April, a big fall after last month’s surge, the Commerce Department reports. Housing starts dropped 9.8 percent in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just under 1 million units.
The drop follows a sharp rise in November, in which new-housing starts had accelerated to the fastest pace since February 2008.
Single-family home construction, which makes up the largest segment of starts, dropped 7 percent in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 667,000 units. However, total single-family housing starts still mark the highest monthly total in 2013, except for November. Multifamily starts fell 14.9 percent for the month.

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