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Financing Real Estate Investment Property During a Credit Crunch – 5 Things You Can Do Now
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BiggerPockets has evolved into a seriously useful site for real estate investors. It has grown to more than 33,000 members and accurately bills itself as dedicated to Knowledge, Networking, Dealmaking and Marketing. The forum section of the site is very active, very helpful, and covers a wide range of topics. The forums are also well-moderated, so you don't have to sift through spam. In addition, you can now create your own blog, and take advantage of a library of user-contributed articles. We think BiggerPockets is an excellent resource for both beginners and seasoned real estate pros.

With the release of Version 6 of Commercial / Industrial Development, this is a good time to tell you about a networking site designed specifically for developers and for those in the building professions: UPworld.

You can network with other professionals in the field; you can also post job and development opportunities, as well as requests for proposals and for professional services. Membership is by invitation or a simple online application. Check it out at UPworld.com.

You'll find an extraordinary collection of lectures from some of the top professors in the U.S. at academicearth.org. We found one in particular that provided an very insightful, lucid, and entertaining explanation of how we got into the current mess. In fact, it's called "Origins of the Financial Mess" by Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and co-director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies.

Citation: Blinder, Alan "Origins of the Financial Mess." Academic Earth. 15 Jan 2009

Many users of our software work in real estate development or construction, so we were pleased to take note of RSMeans CostWorks. They offer a subscription-based service for construction cost estimating. Among the main features they describe are access to 85,000 unit costs, 25,000 assemblies and 42,000 facilities costs covering new building construction, repair, remodeling, change order, facilities maintenance and heavy construction. They say the cost data is updated on an ongoing basis and that they provide localized materials and labor data to 900 locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Their site has video previews of many of service's features, and a free trial.



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