–Thank you

However, not all “words of wisdom” should be taken at face value, especially a real estate investing advice. As we all know, the real estate investing business is a highly competitive, albeit rewarding, industry and taking an advice from the wrong people can lead to disaster.

Nowadays, a real estate investing advice can be found everywhere – on blogs, articles, videos, and other instructional materials. Everybody seems to be an expert in all things concerning flipping, wholesaling, and rehabbing properties. However, not everyone is qualified to give advice so you should carefully scrutinize a mentor or guru before paying attention to his words.

When looking for a sound advice, listed below are some real estate investors that you should approach:

Someone who has  working strategies

Before taking a real estate investing advice from a certain mentor, see to it that that mentor is practicing what he’s preaching. Always remember that there is no room for theories and speculations in this business. Therefore, you should take advice from real estate investors who can prove that the techniques they are teaching are working on every real estate market.

Someone who has been in the real estate investing business for a long time

A person who has been investing in real estate for more than ten years can give you great words of wisdom. Because they have been in the business for so long, they know exactly what to do in case major changes in the real estate market occur.

Someone who has great credibility and integrity

If you want to succeed in this business, follow the examples of honest and trustworthy investors. These people are good role models because they are making money without taking advantage of their clients and business partners. Real estate investors like them can steer you to the right direction and give you good a real estate investing advice.

For great real estate investing advices, meanwhile, you can go to www.REIWired.com. The website is home to various learning resources provided by veteran real estate investors who have functioning real estate investing strategies, as well as credibility and integrity. If you want to receive a good advice that can change your life, visit REIWired now.

The BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo is undoubtedly the most comprehensive, effective, clear-cut lesson on financial investment that you can get in such a short period. Professional stock traders and financial investors who have proven track records of attaining or maintaining profitability no matter what’s happening in the economy present the information during the two-hour expo. They provide insight into all the fundamentals that you’ll need to know to build wealth through “do-it-yourself” financial investing. Just some of the concepts the BetterTrades experts touch on during the free BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo are how to buy discounted stocks, how to receive higher returns on seemingly normal investments, and how to recognize when it’s time to enter or exit the market on a certain stock.

Without a doubt, the BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo is a great event but it is a bit non-conventional; the bells and whistles that you may be accustomed to with other expos just are not part of the BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo experience. In fact, the entire BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo will most likely be unlike any you have ever experienced before. How? Well, for starters, it’s free. Second, there’s no food and there’s no entertainment; there’s just time, space, and opportunity for you to discover the answers to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about financial investments. Third, the BetterTrades financial experts who will be training you are there to teach you not sell you. Therefore, the BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo ends when you say it’s over. The BetterTrades presenters will stick around to make sure that all of your financial investment questions are answered. Plus, if you have already started investing and have a portfolio, the BetterTrades financial experts will review your portfolio and give some advice on that as well. It’s for all of these reasons that BetterTrades, and the BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo in particular, makes such an impact on people.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about investing in stocks or strategies for making your IRA, 401k, or other investment work for you, then attend the BetterTrades Financial Freedom Expo. There’s much to gain and absolutely nothing to lose if you do!

A broader definition of penny stocks refers to the company’s market capitalization instead of its stock price. Market capitalization of a company is calculated by multiplying it stock price by the amount of shares outstanding. This number provides you with the total dollar value of all the shares in the organization at that instance of time.

A case in point can be Microsoft that has a market cap of around $300B and Dell that has a market cap of $70B. The classification of a company in small cap depends on the concerned broker. While for some organizations companies below $2b in market cap are considered to be small cap, for several others, small cap companies will only be under $1B.

Penny stocks have a great significance in the life of investors. With the help of penny stocks investors can incur huge gains in very short period of time as small as minutes and hours. Though the volatile market of penny stocks has many drawbacks yet the outweighing positive point is that investors can incur hefty benefits in nit just few days but in few hours.

Penny stocks are more enticing due to their cost-effectiveness. Unlike blue chip stocks the penny stocks demand less investment that can go a lot farther. For instance accumulating 10,000 shares of a penny stock can cost only $1000 dollars while same number of shares in a blue chip might cost as much as $10,000,000. Similarly penny stocks offer the advantage of occupying a large position in a company for minimum amount of money. For example a $5000 investment in a blue-chip company will provide the investor only a negligible share in the overall company whereas the same amount invested in penny stocks will offer you a complete 1% stake in the public company. Moreover if over the year that company expands and grows successful, your profits and shares can simply multiply.

However penny stocks too have quite a few shortcomings. The foremost disadvantage as is the volatility of the market. If on the one hand the volatility is beneficial for the investor on the other hand it can be fatal too. Investors can incur huge losses if the market fluctuates in an unwanted way. Due to the high-risk factor involved many investors completely stay away from investing in penny stocks and few others invest only a small amount of money in it.

Another drawback is that unlike stocks such as NYSE or NASDAQ, listed on more global exchanges, penny stocks have less financial disclosure requirements and release less reliable financial information in comparison to its other big counterparts. Moreover lack of easily accessible and trustworthy information about these companies provides space for temporary establishment of sham companies that can deceit and harm the investors.

This is very good news for the savvy investor that buys investment properties now at 30 cents on the dollar and can rent his unit at a level well below current rent rates and still cash flow strongly. Over time, rents will increase along with appreciation, and this will eventually put this investor in a great position.

The entire Las Veags Review Journal article is reprinted below: Valley apartment construction stalls

Production expected to fall under 1,000 units in ‘09 as rents drop, vacancies rise

By HUBBLE SMITH LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Apartment construction, like single-family homes, has slowed to a crawl in Las Vegas as landlords struggle with rising vacancy rates and falling rents.

Builders completed 2,670 apartment units in 2008, though production is expected to fall to under 1,000 units this year, said Michael Shaffner, associate vice president for Marcus & Millichap real estate investment services in Las Vegas.

Asking rents are expected to drop 0.2 percent to $873 a month, while effective rents — taking out concessions — will drop 3.2 percent to $804 a month, Marcus & Millichap reported in its 2009 multifamily market outlook.

“What we’re seeing on average is one month free rent on a 13-month lease seems standard,” Shaffner said. “Basically, rent growth is stagnant, so this is something we’re seeing across the board.”

Vacancy rates will rise 0.6 percentage points to 8.9 percent as the stock of “shadow” rentals, or single-family homes for rent, begins to dissipate. Vacancy rose 2.2 percentage points last year.

Multifamily broker Spencer Ballif of CB Richard Ellis showed vacancy rising to 10.96 percent in December from 9.93 percent the previous month. Vacancy was highest (11.53 percent) in Class C units, typically the older, cheaper apartment complexes.

He’s also showing about 6,000 apartment units being built in 2009, though he’s not sure what the number will be going forward.

“There’s a lot being built because what’s under construction today was planned two or three years ago because of all the hotels that were coming,” Ballif said. “Some happened and some did not.”

Lower monthly rental income diminishes capitalization rates for multifamily investors who once found Las Vegas to be a safe haven for their money, Marcus & Millichap regional manager John Vorsheck said. He’s seeing more apartment properties in default and going back to lenders.

“We’re seeing risk being priced into these deals,” he said. “People look at Vegas as a town of opportunity. They think prices are always going to go up. They look at their debt and the fact rent growth didn’t go up; now they get better returns in the markets they came from. A lot of (1031) exchange money was coming to Las Vegas from California. People were selling 50-unit properties in Anaheim and buying 100 units in Las Vegas.”

San Francisco-based RealFacts reported average apartment rents of $878 a month in Clark County for the fourth quarter, down 0.9 percent from the same period a year ago. Occupancy dropped 0.3 percentage points to 92 percent for 106,400 units.

Among states in the desert region, Nevada had the highest average rent at $875 a month, compared with $804 in Utah, $766 in Arizona and $744 in New Mexico, RealFacts reports.

Vorsheck said the Las Vegas apartment market will stay in flux this year because of lingering economic stress, but signs of recovery are starting to appear.

Although several Strip resort projects have stalled, the opening of Palazzo and Encore added roughly 10,000 jobs and more workers are expected to be hired this year at M Resort and CityCenter.

Outlying areas in Henderson and North Las Vegas will post the highest vacancies because of single-family homes competing as rentals, Vorsheck said. However, people have become wary about renting a home that could go into foreclosure without their knowledge, he said.

“I’m still a believer in the fundamentals of Las Vegas,” Vorsheck said. “Whether it takes 12 months or 18 months, it’s going to turn around.”

He sees added value in North Las Vegas in the coming years from plans to rehabilitate older neighborhoods along Las Vegas Boulevard. Nearly $1 billion in gentrification projects are proposed for the 238-acre redevelopment area.

RealFacts reported seven multifamily property transactions in 2008 valued at $154.2 million, compared with 19 transactions valued at $916 million in 2007.

Most investors see Las Vegas as being 12 months to 24 months away from recovery, but the real “negative” is the perception that the city is shedding a lot of jobs, Sauter said. In reality, total employment is down 0.5 percent from a year ago.

Due to rent declines and rising concessions, Las Vegas dropped two spots in Marcus & Millichap’s 2009 National Apartment Index to No. 16.

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