We have almost unlimited options when it comes to investing. We can invest in precious metals, bonds, stocks, futures a lot of other things that are very similar. They are just electronic bits or pieces of paper that represent something that someone owes us. They really aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on if people lose faith in the investment. Take stocks for instance, every time there is the slightest disruption in the news, their value moves up or down. We all believe that there will be growth, so we keep investing.
Right now real estate is a shining star in the investment world. Real estate has plummeted in value in the last few years, and today looks like a great investment bargain. A very important component of real estate investments is that you have something that is real instead of just an electronic blip. You can see it, you can feel it, you can live in it, you can improve it, you can sell it or you can give it away. Let’s look at Palm Desert, California, for instance. There are a lot of homes and businesses that are either bank owned or in the process of becoming bank owned. It’s easy to see that Palm Desert is a place where you can buy a real bargain.
You can buy some of these properties for 50% of what the previous owner paid. You can buy residential property or commercial property that is being sold to the highest bidder. For example, on West Lucky Way there is a house that had $613,000 in loans on it and it is now valued at $320,000 as of April 14, 2010. I’m looking at another on W. Chestnut Ave. that ForeclosureRadar values at $164,000 and it has loans on it of 436,000. Foreclosure Radar estimates that the Cap Rate on that property is 19.5% and the estimated rent is $2672 a month. That sounds like something worth looking at.
Real Estate has a lot of investment advantages. In our current market that is especially the case. The foreclosure crisis has forced a glut of property onto market and it is a real buyers paradise right now. This is the first time in years that an investor can buy a property in California and rent it out for a positive cash flow. People still need to live in houses, they just can’t afford the mortgages that were created at the height of the bubble.
So if you can buy property for half what it sold for five or six years ago you can probably afford to lease it to the same people who tried to buy it back then. They can easily afford to pay the rent on a property that was purchased at half the price it was a few years ago.
Low interest rates are combining with the low prices to really help the investor out. (This rate probably won’t last long, but my sister just got a 30 year fixed rate loan for 4.62%. That was in Palm Desert, CA.) This really helps investors finance homes so that they can rent them out very profitably.
It’s easy to see that you can get a great deal on foreclosed property in Palm Desert, California right now. If you want to see how good of a deal, just use one of the free financial calculators on the Internet to crunch the numbers. You can find the estimated value for these foreclosed properties www.PalmDesertForeclosures.org.
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