Investment | firsttuesday Journal

Property exchanges when Cash is King

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 27, 2023 | Feature Articles, Investment, Real Estate, Recessions, Tax | 0

Agents who want to stay a step ahead during the housing market downturn will become versed in property exchanges.

Letter to the editor: How do I tell the difference between a business and consumer mortgage?

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 20, 2023 | Investment, Letters to the Editor, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

Knowing the difference between the two will help MLBs identify more streams of income during the recession.

Form-of-the-Week: Annual Property Operating Data Sheet (APOD) and Tenant Estoppel Certificate (TEC) — Forms 352 and 598

by Amy Perry | Jan 19, 2023 | Forms, Investment, Property Management, Real Estate | 0

An agent representing an owner of tenant-occupied property uses RPI Forms 352 and 598 to induce buyers or lenders to purchase the property and assure no competing claims exist from tenants.

Real estate speculators during recessions and recoveries

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 13, 2023 | Economics, Feature Articles, Investment, Real Estate | 1

What does the next speculator increase mean for California’s housing market?

Form-of-the-Week: LLC Investment Circular and Operating Agreement — Forms 371 and 372

by Amy Perry | Jan 5, 2023 | Forms, Investment, Real Estate | 1

A real estate syndicator uses RPI Forms 371 and 372 when forming an LLC for a group investment in income-producing property.

Arranging hard money trust deed mortgages

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 27, 2022 | Feature Articles, Finance, Investment, Real Estate, Your Practice | 2

Learn how California real estate licensees can earn fees arranging business-purpose trust deed investments.

Form-of-the-Week: Equity Purchase Agreement and Equity Purchase Agreement with Short Sale Contingency — Forms 156 and 156-1

by Amy Perry | Dec 12, 2022 | Forms, Investment, Real Estate | 0

When an investor or dealer wants to purchase a residence in foreclosure, they use RPI Form 156 and 156-1 when it is a short sale.

MLO recession survival guide Part 4: Arranging mortgage originations for investors

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 9, 2022 | Commercial, Feature Articles, Finance, Investment, Real Estate | 0

Discover how to solicit and work with property investors during a recession.

Unused commercial space continues to convert into much-needed apartments

by Ashley Collins | Dec 9, 2022 | Commercial, first tuesday Local, Laws and Regulations, New Laws, Real Estate | 0

California’s housing shortage has a new source of aid: conversions from commercial property to much-needed multi-family units.

Millennials and Gen Z are your next property investor clients

by Ashley Collins | Dec 5, 2022 | Investment, Real Estate | 1

A fast-growing, new wave of young investors are thinking big in 2022, and they’re thinking about — drum roll, please — investment property.

Foreign real estate investors are spooked, and California is paying the price

by Ashley Collins | Oct 21, 2022 | Economics, Features, Investment, Real Estate, Recessions | 1

The undeclared recession is making its rounds and foreign real estate investment in California is not exempt.

Governor Newsom opens up commercial zoning for residential use

by Amy Perry | Oct 20, 2022 | Commercial, Investment, Laws and Regulations, New Laws, Real Estate | 0

Governor Newsom signed two pieces of legislation into law in September 2022, both of which streamline commercial conversions into residential buildings: Senate Bill 6 and Assembly Bill 2011.