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Apartments, Condos and Residences |
Turnaround of Apartment Units
 The following are some points in a typical plan to create a profitable investment from an underperforming apartment building.
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Increasing Cash Flow in Apartment Investments
 For apartment owners, the way to increase rental income and gain a bigger return on investment is to improve the property.
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Commercial Condo Offices
 Just about any unit that can be rented can be converted to condominiums.
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Advantages of Condo Conversion
 When an owner converts existing rental apartments to a condominium project, there are certain advantages over building a new property.
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Buying Apartments - A Short Guide
 When any particular apartment building is under consideration for purchase, there are a number of factors that should be considered. Here are some of the more important points:
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Apartments -- Always The Favorite Investment
 Apartments have been and will continue to be one of the favorite investments of individual investors, syndicates and other groups.
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Exchange and Taxes |
Why Owners Make A Real Estate Exchange
 The real estate exchange takes more patience and hard work to set up a successful exchange than it does to arrange a straight purchase and sale. Some owners and their agents simply do not understand the benefits of an exchange.
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Saving Taxes Through Tax Deferred Exchange
 When making a tax deferred exchange under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, the law requires that the properties must be of “like kind”.
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The Real Estate Exchange and Capital Gains Taxes
 The techniques for arranging tax-deferred real estate exchanges that meet the requirements of the owners have become quite sophisticated with increasing usage.
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Insurance |
The Insurance That A Commercial Tenant Must Carry
 Insurance coverage must be addressed by both landlords and tenants.
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Recommended Insurance For Commercial Tenants
 The natural disasters that have been in the news during the last year remind us that everyone must have maximum insurance coverage.
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Investment Property |
Warehouses May Not Be Pretty, But They Are Profitable
 Warehouses can be one of the most profitable real estate investments.
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Commercial Real Estate Investment Counseling
 A prospective investor may have a problem getting started with a real estate investment program because of the great variety of properties out there. Real estate counseling can help you choose which is right for you & know the reasons why it's right!
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Convert Use in Commercial Real Estate for Big Profits
 The owner of a property that suffers from obsolescence is faced with a variety of options.
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Energy Prices and Real Estate Investments
 When oil prices soar, real estate is affected because buildings use a great deal of energy for heating and cooling and because accessibility is dependent on automobile travel.
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Getting Rich by Solving Problems in Real Estate
 Take another look at troubled properties in your area. With fresh new ideas and a re-structuring of the mortgages, the troubles may go away, leaving a profitable investment for you.
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Checklist in Analyzing a Property
 The best way to develop a clear picture of the property and its potential is to examine all of the principal factors and then integrate them into a meaningful conclusion.
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What To Look For Before You Purchase Income Property
 Too often, people buy property based on what they have been taught to see on the bottom line of a piece of paper.
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Profits From Modernization Of Older Buildings
 Many owners and investors in apartments and commercial buildings believe that older buildings in good neighborhoods offer better investment potential than new construction.
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Land |
Commercial Development in Rights of Way
 In many metropolitan areas, commercial land for development is in very short supply. However, there may be hundreds or even thousands of parcels of property that have been overlooked.
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Basics of Land Development
 From the point of view of the landowner, disposal of a large tract at a good price may require a formula that will encourage the developer to commit improvement and development money for part of the tract that will build future value into the tract.
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Developing Land – A Look At The Professional
 The acquisition and improvement of land is a large-scale operation and requires large amounts of capital. This has created methods of land acquisition that gives the developer access to and control over a large enough tract to make development econom
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Land- A Top Investment
 Land is always at the top of investments by real estate professionals. Before any building project can be planned, the land must be available.
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Profits From Investing In Land
 When investors made real estate investments, one consideration in past years was the tax shelter of certain investments. Now, with fewer shelters, real estate investments must make sense as a dollars and cents return on capital, and must stand alone
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Leasing |
Changes in Shopping Centers
 The smaller festival marketplaces in brilliant interiors, combining shopping facilities with amusements have proven very popular. This theme of providing recreation as well as shopping is changing the thinking of developers and managers.
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Negotiating Leases with Corporate Tenants
 A few years ago, senior corporate managers were able to make major real estate decision by themselves. Now, a negotiating team will negotiate leases. Landlords, developers, and brokers must be aware of this new style of negotiation.
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Sublease Cooperation Between Tenant and Landlord
 When an existing tenant wants to sublease their rented office space, the problem for landlords is whether its a better strategy to enforce lease restrictions against subleasing or to work with the tenants.
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The Net Lease Checklist
 A checklist of what bases should be touched in order to insure that you have a net lease.
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Lease Subordination Clause
 When a landlord and a tenant agree to a commercial lease, it may contain clauses covering things that neither party to the lease ever expects to happen.
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Negotiating Away Vacancies In A New Building By Exchanging Leases
 Filling a new building is a challenge that developers and Commercial Brokers often face. Some potential new tenants may wish to relocate to a building but cannot do so because of an existing lease commitment.
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Lenders and Mortgages |
Property Management and Lenders
 The service joint venture is a form of incentive compensation by which the lender retains an asset management firm as its agent, with the firm agreeing to defer a portion of its fees until payment may be made out of future cash flow.
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Realtors Solve The Real Estate Problems Of Lenders
 One of the problems that banks and insurance companies have is disposing of their real estate owned.
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Office Properties |
Suburban Office Buildings
 With even the sub-prime mortgage crisis in home mortgages, available investment capital is at high levels, and demand for investment real estate continues to drive up prices. Suburban office buildings remain many investors primary acquisition target.
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The Suburban Commercial Building
 Are commercial buildings becomming obsolete as more workers do their work at home? The answer seems to be no!
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Why the Office Building is Hot Investment
 An office building has always ranked as one of the favorite real estate investments of large institutional investors. It follows, then, if they are that attractive to institutional investors, they should be of interest for the average investor now.
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A Master Lease Can Make the Sale
 Although office space is in supply in some locations, development has continued. Business leaders are optimistic about the short and long term future.
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The Floor Size In The Office Lease
 When a leased space in an office building consists of one or a few rooms, a relatively small space that the tenant can that can be easily measured by the tenant.
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Real Estate Analysis |
Checklist for a Real Estate Investment
 The analysis of real estate investments can take any number of forms, but no matter which approach you use for the property being invested, you should be sure to first address the important considerations that follow.
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Establishing Value in Real Estate
 Knowing the value of property is a vital part of the decision-making process of all buyers, sellers and users of real estate.
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Affordable Shopping Centers
 When looking at shopping centers, bigger isn't necessarily better. While a well-run regional or super-regional center can produce a good return, so can a successful small-market center. In many cases, small town centers can turn out a better return.
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Property Turn-Arounds For Profit
 In any market, good or bad, there are always problem properties (to someone). Take another look at troubled properties in your area. With fresh new ideas and a re-structuring of the mortgages, the troubles may go away, leaving a profitable investment
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You Can Use Options for Big Profits
 When most owners and investors think about options on real estate, it is usually one-dimensional. The option is just a way for a buyer to tie up a piece of property.
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Purpose Of An Appraisal
 Any decision concerning the value of real estate, whether it be for purchase or sale, financing, tax assessment, or estate valuation, should be based on a competent appraisal.
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Real Estate Management |
Upgrade Your Rentals and Get Higher Rents
 Buildings that are held for rental income must be kept up to the standards of the newly built properties in order to maintain the maximum cash flow.
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Information And Action By A New Property Manager
 When a new managment company takes charge of a property they must collect great amounts of information. A new property checklist should be used to ensure that all activities and transactions relating to the property are handled in a timely fashion
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Property Management Help
 Here are some ideas to assist in property management:
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New Addresses for Older Buildings
 A new name for an existing building might be what is needed to help with the impression. The upscale address improves the image of the building and may increase its market value.
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Warding Off the Ghost Tenant
 What are ghost tenants? They are tenants who do not operate their businesses on the premises continuously or who vacate the leased premises, but paying the minimum rentals.
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Prevent Problems with Routine Maintenance
 Maintenance of any apartment building should be handled as much as possible on a routine basis rather than on an emergency one.
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Good Landscaping Increases Value
 Property managers must watch the nickels and dimes as well as the dollars that are spent on the property. Save one dollar in operating costs and (assuming a 10% cap rate) value of the property increases by $10.
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Emergency Procedures In Your Commercial Or Office Building
 Building owners and managers are becoming aware of their obligations to prepare for emergencies that can happen in buildings. The examples of the emergencies at the World Trade Center and at Oklahoma City are reminders of what can happen.
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Asset Management In Real Estate
 The asset manager has a different job from the property manager.
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How Management Works For You
 A low-priced and unprofitable property that is on the market can sometimes be purchased and upgraded with little expense. A professional investor can add the new cash-flow property to his investment portfolio or quickly turn it for a profit.
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Managing Corporate Real Estate Assets
 In too many big businesses, all emphasis within management has been on what the corporation does to affect profit and loss. Even though the company may own hundreds of millions of dollars in land where its factories, distribution facilities and wareh
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The Commercial Broker And Asset Management
 The Commercial Broker makes management recommendations to his client when a purchase of a property is completed. The property must be placed under the supervision of professional, experienced and innovative managers to get the highest return.
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