Archive for January, 2006

Seems like the RE market is picking up

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Lots of showings on both condos but no offers. A same model condo in the same complex listed at $50k higher than mine went pending today. That is quite amazing to me because you can gut my whole condo (950 sf) and remodel it to look like the +50k one ...

Arizona real estate market still slow

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Well, my tenant bought a 1 bedroom condo in the same complex instead of mine. I let her break the lease 4 months early so she'll be out at the end of March. I'm hoping that by selling as an empty condo I can attract not only investors but buyers ...

Things are moving… but slowly

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I almost had my condo sold to my tenant, but she ended up wanting a 1 br instead. My realtor called about one of my lots in St. George and said that we may get an offer within 24 hours. Well, it's been 24 hours and no offer. Real estate ...

My Cashflow in Condo #1 disappears!

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I guess I have to start numbering my properties like the other blogs. New Construction Condo #1 is the one I bought pre-construction with these numbers So the left side is from Jan 2005 and the right side is from today, Jan 2006 Rent === $1225/mo --- $1225/mo (6 months left on ...

The year is off to a good start!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Thanks to Google for going up $20 on the first trading day of the year. Well since its 2006 I suppose its time to get my ass in gear. My goals are to sell my 2 lots and my 2 condos. I will 1031 them into a commercial property where ...

Happy New Year!

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Well, since real estate is slow over the holidays I did some catching up on my other investments, mainly my stock portfolio. I took the money I got from selling Ebay and put it into Google. Yes, I jumped on the Google band wagon at $415.00 with 50 shares. This ...