http://www.dennisfassett.com Michigan Real Estate Investing Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a follow up to the post I did yesterday on the necessity of having rental properties if you have a day job and don\'t get all the Federal and State income taxes back that you pay. I buy another cash flow property with my windfall. Think about what ... http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/19/michigan-real-estate-investing-33/ Due to the tidal wave of chaos and uncertainty that\'s building right now in commercial real estate, I believe that 2010 is the year to buy Apartment Buildings! Because of this I\'m teaching a half-day FREE seminar on How to Buy Your FIRST Apartment Building. Saturday, February 6, 2010. 8:30 am ... http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/18/how-to-buy-your-first-apartment-building-2/ Stop me if you have heard this one before: you spend time looking for a good service provider. You go through two or three before you find someone that\'s great, then you give them all of your business. Then something strange happens - their prices start to go up, they ... http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/18/michigan-real-estate-investing-tv-when-vendors-go-bad/ I was listening to one of the talking heads over the weekend on one of the paid programming financial shows. His advice to everyone in 2010? Do nothing. Use the year for "planning". In this time of unprecedented opportunity, all that\'s all this guy can come up with? http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/18/michigan-real-estate-investing-tv-2010-is-for-planning/ As a follow up, during my long sit down on Friday we talked about various aspects of commercial real estate. He asked about what I had done, then suggested a course of action that blew me away. http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/18/michigan-real-estate-investing-tv-the-power-of-experience/ I\'ve had about a half dozen people on my list now for a couple of years that I have wanted to sit down with. Since I\'m going in a new direction in 2010 I thought that it made sense to talk to those folks because they\'ve already done it. I ... http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/18/michigan-real-estate-investing-tv-start-with-the-scary-names/ Do you get emails that say that? I just received the 11th one in the last month. I bit on a couple of them before I figured out what that meant. I\'m happy to help, but there\'s a difference between asking for help and pitching! http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/06/michigan-real-estate-investing-32/ I attended the January meeting of the Renegade Detroit Investors last evening, and their guest speaker was Bob Norton. Bob's from Michigan and still does a lot of deals here, and last night he talked about where the real estate market here is going. I joined the group last night - ... http://www.dennisfassett.com/2010/01/06/michigan-real-estate-investing-tv-bob-nortons-outlook-for-real-estate-in-michigan/