The decision to use an automated pricing and underwriting software for its lending platform has paid off in spades for a national wholesale and retail mortgage banker[1]. Stearns Lending, Inc., is the 15th largest lender in the country, and it credits more than half of the past year’s growth to a decision to go automatic. [...]

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If you are like many real estate investors, then networking plays a major role in the success of your business. These days, you simply cannot network without some online presence on websites like Facebook, Orkut or Twitter. However, many real estate investors and even internet marketers are still at a loss when it comes to [...]

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LinkedIn Bulking Up, Adding Features for Real Estate and Housing

August 5, 2010

As more real estate investors, real estate agents and participants in the housing market move their marketing and other activities online, social media and networking sites are responding to a new and eager market. Recently Yahoo! combined forces with Zillow to enhance and improve their housing listings reach, and now LinkedIn, a professional networking site [...]

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More Millionaires Now than Before Financial “Meltdown”

August 4, 2010

According to the Capgemini 2010 U.S. Metro Wealth Index, there are more extremely wealthy individuals in U.S. metropolitan areas today than 3 years ago before the financial meltdown had officially hit the media and the country[1]. In fact, New York City has a full 18.7 percent more “high net worth individuals” than it had in [...]

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3 Tips for Posting on Your Real Estate Investing Blog

August 3, 2010

If you are using a blog to help boost your search engine rankings for other websites, or whether you maintain a real estate blog for personal and professional purposes, there are certain things that you can do to make your blog attractive to both search engines and readers. Ultimately, your success in this endeavor can [...]

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Using Facebook to Find an Apartment

August 2, 2010

One resource for apartment searches is adding Facebook profiles to its list of references and resources that can be used to help locate an apartment[1]. When you search for an apartment using Apartment Guide, you can now have the software factor in your stated Facebook profile preferences and criteria in your results. The president of [...]

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Setting Up a Blog for Your Virtual Real Estate Investing Business

August 1, 2010

While not all real estate investors use or even need blogs, virtual real estate investors can always benefit from having a blog either as their official website or linked to it in some form or fashion. A blog comes with numerous benefits, including: SEO boost for your website A public forum for you to demonstrate [...]

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Identifying Your Target Market in Virtual Real Estate Investing

July 31, 2010

A few days ago, we talked about ways that you can generate money by being a virtual real estate investor without actually investing in real estate. Whether you ultimately want to be a real estate investor or whether you want to utilize the real estate market and real estate investors in some form or fashion [...]

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Overcoming the “Bad Press” that Comes with Being a Virtual Investor

July 30, 2010

Just this past week, a man claiming to be a real estate broker has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars in security deposits and down payments on properties that he did not own. Surprise, surprise: he used the internet to con eager buyers looking for great deals into forking over their hard turned money. [...]

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Making Real Money in a Virtual World

July 29, 2010

When most people think of virtual real estate investing, they think of ways that they can use the internet to leverage their real-world real estate investing business, whether they buy and sell properties, teach and mentor would-be investors or track down and sell leads on deals. However, a new kind of virtual real estate investor [...]

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