Ilyce Glink Show Notes - August 29, 2010 - Careathon Thanks, How to Profit From Foreclosures, Existing Home Prices Falter

Ilyce Glink Show Notes – August 29, 2010

Today’s Show: Careathon Thanks, How to Profit From Foreclosures, Existing Home Prices Falter, 5-Year Anniversary of Katrina

This was a crazy week in real estate and mortgage news:

Existing home sales dropped 27 percent in July which is about 50 percent more than economists thoughts. No big surprise here. Mortgage Bankers Association has tracked about a 40 percent drop in home buyer interest since the end of the $8,000 and $6,500 home buyer tax credits. Is the answer more tax credits? Nope. We’ve got to wean the housing industry off of free money and get people to start buying houses because it’s in their best interests to do so.

Two days after this news, the National Association of Home Builders announced that new home sales had dropped more than 12 percent to the lowest level on record. To put this into perspective for you, in 1963, home builders sold about 324,000 homes. That was nearly 50 years ago, when we had fewer than 200 million people in this country. The previous all-time low was 1982, when mortgage interest rates touched 18 percent. With this number, the annualized rate of sale is 271,000. DREADFUL!

Let’s call it what it is – the real estate market is in a depression. A deep, and dangerous depression.

The only bright spot is that mortgage interest rates dropped to a new historic low this week. I just locked in on a 15-year fixed-rate 3.75 percent loan with very few closing costs. If you can refinance (because you have the cash, credit and home equity necessary), you should do it. These interest rates may not last long and when they finally go up, we may not see this level again in our lifetimes.

THANK YOU to our WSB Care-A-Thon listeners!!!

We raised a record $1.4 million dollars, and the money is still coming in! We’re up over $100,000 since the end of the Care-a-thon Friday night. If you want to donate, go online to WSBRADIO.com and click on the Care-a-thon button!

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Steve was our first call this morning. He’s 60 and is looking for health insurance. I suggested he check out ehealthinsurance.com, which offers information on all of the health insurance programs offered in each state. You can apply there online or shop with an agent. The pricing should be the same, since the program and pricing has to be filed with each state.

Shopping for a Short Sale? Want to buy a Foreclosure? Come to our HOW TO PROFIT FROM FORECLOSURES Event on OCTOBER 2, 2010

We’ve signed up a bunch of new sponsors and speakers for the event, including:

Joel Miller. He finances commercial real estate purchases $1 million to $40 million. He also does business financing as well as the real estate financing.

Monte Smith, Education director for Entrust in Georgia. He’ll be talking about Self-Directed IRAs and how to finance the purchase of your real estate investment using IRA funds.

Eric Weiss, Schulten, Ward & Turner. Eric is a top commercial real estate attorney who helps his clients think through the business terms of a proposed foreclosure deal as well as walking through and creating the paperwork.

Georgia Association of Enrolled Agents. Bill Nemeth and his crew will be around to answer all of your real estate investing tax questions

Andy Heller, successful real estate investor, bestselling author and founder of RealtyJoin.com, a social networking site and business marketplace for real estate investors. Andy will discuss his lease/option platform and what’s been happening with his 25 rental properties.

Ricky Novak, Strategic 1031 Exchange Company. Ricky has wide-ranging experience as a real estate attorney, tax expert and can discuss 1031 exchanges and conservation tax credits.

And for our AFTER HOURS INVESTING PANEL we have Kay Shirley and Wes Moss discussing what’s going on in the stock market.

Go to RealWorldSeminars.com and check out our speakers for the event. We’re also updating the blog with insights from our speakers and sponsors.

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Our How to Profit From Foreclosures event is designed to provide you with up-to-the-minute knowledge from the very best real estate investment professionals who do this every day for a living.

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Ilyce Glink Show Notes – August 29, 2010 – Careathon Thanks, How to Profit From Foreclosures, Existing Home Prices Falter