Real Estate Investment, Information, and Analysis

This website is dedicated to provide all real estate investors with useful and robust information that promotes smart real estate investing.

Books

Real Numbers, New Edition is now available in the free PDF version on this website. This is the classic book on real estate investment analysis (478 pages) first published by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. in 1993. It will be available in a partial website version and a printed version soon.

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Calculators

Our calculators (almost three dozen) cover a wide scope of investment real estate calculations. Take a look at them to see what might be useful to you. There's even a Proforma Income and Expense Statement that you can calculate and print.

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Information

Convenient and comprehensive information in one place makes your job easier. For instance, need to know the property tax on a parcel in Erie County, Ohio? Go States-Counties-Cities under Information and link to Ohio and the Erie County website. Look in the Treasurer's Department which will lead you to the Auditor's data base of properties you can search.

Need to know the facts on York Harbor, Maine? Go States-Counties-Cities under Information and link to Maine and the City Information website where you can link to a large amount of information on York Harbor.

Need to find a title company office almost anywhere? Go Title Insurance under Information and find an office close to whatever property you are considering.

Need to find a seminar or book with specialized information? Go Professional Organizations under Information and look up a specialty real estate organization.

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Data

Usefull data enables you to do more accurate real estate investment analyses. Need the demographic information on Fayetteville, Arkansas? Go Census under Data and link to Population Finder where you can look up Fayetteville under Arkansas.

Need to know the construction costs in McAllen, Texas? Go Construction Costs under Data and link to McAllen, Texas where you will find the construction costs for two dozen typical property types.

Need to fingure out what direction the economy is headed. Go Economic Indicators under Data and choose an indicator such as the Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices.

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Future Features

A newsletter, a blog, and a podcast will come in 2010. Additional information projects yet to be developed will also come in 2010. We expect to provide more information in the future that's useful to real estate investors.