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Silicon Valley Real Estate Investor
http://www.SiliconValleyRealEstateInvestor.co…
This blog is intended to help real estate investors succeed in their efforts to buy, sell, and profit from real estate. Unlike many other blogs, this blog is written by investors for other investors. We provide timely news, education, and tips, covering residential real estate investment subjects and investment property topics such as short sales, wholesaling/flipping houses, buying foreclosures, buying subject to, doing lease options, finding mortgages, securing private money and hard money lending sources, etc.
We are focused on helping investors in Silicon Valley, encompassing San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Campbell, and Saratoga, but of course many of the topics we cover are universal in nature.
Recent Posts
3 Secrets to reading Housing Data for the Real Estate Investor, part 3: Looking beyond the trend
Note: this is part 3 in a 3-part series entitled “3 Secrets to Reading Housing data for the real estate investor”. See “Related Posts” section below to see the other articles in the series. Part 3 – Looking beyond the tr...
3 Secrets to reading Housing data for the Real Estate Investor, Part 2: Understanding how to interpret Margin of Error
Note: this is part 2 in a series entitled “3 Secrets to Reading Housing data for the real estate investor”. See “Related Posts” section below to see the other articles in the series. Part 2 – Understanding how to interp...
3 Secrets to Reading Housing data for the Real Estate Investor, Part 1: Understanding Seasonally-Adjusted Data
If you’ve ever read market reports, economic data, housing statistics, etc, you’ve probably experienced that strange sense of wondering whether the numbers in front of you are really all that meaningful or significant. Sure, they may se...
The Top Ten Mistakes That Rookie Real Estate Investors Make
Tim Owensby at the Investing Notes blog has put together a great list of top mistakes made by new real estate investors. This list makes for enjoyable reading because all of us have been there at some point or another. Here is a brief summary of Tim...
ForeclosureRadar.com releases the California Foreclosure Report
ForeclosureRadar.com recently released its revamped California Foreclosure Report. This is a must-read for the California real estate investor. The short report draws some interesting conclusions about foreclosure filing rates (123% over last year),...
Government loan modification program not living up to its promise
Over on his blog, Dr. Housing Bubble does a really interesting job in explaining exactly how the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is NOT working as expected. Here are some basic numbers: About3 million homeowners would qualify About 500,0...

