Baltimore Real Estate Investing Blog

Tweet Update – see 2011 Howard County Tax Sale Howard County has announced the date of the 2010 tax sale.  The date will be May 24th 2010. Howard County traditionally has run their tax sale as a live auction and it appears that this year will be no different. A tax auction is for a […]

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Tweet Baltimore is a city of neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods have colorful names that hint at the history of the neighborhood, Greektown,  Butchers Hill,  Brewers Hill etc.  Live Baltimore has a page describing Baltimore Neighborhoods But do you really know the true borders of those neighborhoods?  There are official names for every part of […]

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Tweet Today’s Baltimore Sun had the tax sale list of properties that are delinquent on property taxes and municipal bills.  There are approximately 28,000 (!) on the list.  This is the largest I have seen and an indication of the effect that the economy is having. Are you on the list? You better pay up […]

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Tweet Maryland’s Groundbreaking Lead Law Marylanders can be proud that we introduced a ground breaking lead paint law in the 1990’s.  This was politics at it’s best creating a law that was a win – win for both tenants and landlords.  If landlords registered their properties and took steps to prevent lead paint hazards they […]

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Tweet HUD has proposed new mortgage licensing regulations that would affect how investors do owner financing.  Unless you are selling your own personal residence you would have to be a licensed mortgage loan originator in order to offer owner financing.  I felt this is an unreasonable and unnecessary requirement and submitted a comment saying so […]

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Tweet “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties out of his opportunities.  An optimist is one who make opportunities out of his difficulties.” – Harry Truman

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Tweet One book I recommend in the wealth building category is the popular Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. In his book he talks about the Cash Flow game.  The game is a blast and you will feel like a tycoon as you build your financial portfolio. It is designed as a financial teaching […]

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Tweet I am currently assisting to teach a year long class on Apartment investing.  A number of  people have asked me if they can join.  Unfortuneately, the class is too far along to join at this point.  The good news is  because of the demand a second class is forming in Northern Virginia. Introducing REACH […]

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Tweet The Baltimore City Tax Sale was held May 18, 2009.  A total of 8569 liens were sold with a total face value of $20.8million. There were 172 bidders. 91 bidders had winning bids. There were a total of 33,426 bids meaning about four times as many bids a liens awarded. If you compare that […]

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Tweet Tax Lien Help This blog is focused on real estate investing.  I have written a lot about tax liens and the tax sale process from an investor’s point of view, however I have gotten several questions from homeowners and tenants that are wondering what they should do.  So here is the tax sale process […]

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Tweet Last night Baltimore’s Mayor Dixon hosted a town hall style meeting about vacant and abandoned house problem.  Mayor Dixon, Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano,  Deputy Commissioner Code Enforcement Michael Braverman and panel of city officials spoke about how the city is handling the vacant properties they own. Three ways to acquire Baltimore city owned property […]

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Tweet Baltimore County Tax Sale The Baltimore County tax sale will be held Wednesday June 3, 2009, at the County Council Chambers, 400 Washington Ave,  Room 205, Towson, Maryland at 9 a.m.  You must pre-register for the sale by May 29 at 4:30 p.m.  Registration is free. More information and the property list are available a the […]

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Tweet Take Massive action Something my friend Pete Gardini often says is to take massive action. You are not going to be successful by sitting around doing nothing.  Goals are great, thinking and planing are important, research is necessary, and going to seminars and reading real estate books ( and my blog 🙂 ) are […]

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Tweet Another new real estate investing club is coming to the Washington DC area. The Real Deal Investment Club of VA The first meeting will be held this coming Thursday April 23 2009 from 7-10:00 pm The location will be: the Hampton Inn,  5821 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22303 The Real Deal of VA  will […]

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Tweet Do you have a mastermind group? I am fortunate to be a member of a high level mastermind group. I am continually impressed with the ideas, knowledge, and success level  the members of my mastermind group generate.  Two members of my group are putting on an exciting event later this month, The Exponential Wealth […]

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