Time to Buy and Hold Dallas Fort Worth Real Estate

It’s Leap Day, 2008 and I am offically buying (and blogging) again. I pulled my head out of the sand this week while listening to the real estate guys radio show podcast on “it’s a buyers market”. While listening, I recalled a book i read over a year ago, “Timing the Real Estate Market” so [...]

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DFW #1 Real Estate Opportunity

Business 2.0 magazine just released their October edition ranking the Dallas/Fort Worth area as the #1 real estate investment opportunity in the U.S.

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The Perfect Storm – Builders in Trouble

There are a number of developments in the market that appear to be creating the perfect storm for investors. I’d like to highlight a few recent articles in the local paper and give you my thoughts of how these shifts may create great opportunities for investors. Home builders have building like crazy the fast few [...]

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The Perfect Storm – Subprime Mortgages are History

The bust of the subprime mortgage industry may be a boom for rental property investors. The rental market in DFW has been depressed for years as interest rates dropped to historical lows and renters turned to buyers. The populatiry of subprime lending over the last few years didn’t help the rental market as would-be renters [...]

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Anatomy of a Rehab – Postmortem

I finally closed on the sale of 911 Worth on June 6th, 2007. It took much longer to sell and I didn’t receive the price I had hoped. Here is what I learned… 1. While the location was great, the timing was poor. The property was one house down from the construction of a new [...]

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