One year of investment property operation data in Phoenix, Arizona
12 comments so farFollowing my Las Vegas property 1-year break down, I am going to present to you the numbers for my second property in Phoenix, AZ. I also bought this condominium on N Cave Creek Rd during my 3week trip to the USA in the summer 2009. It was much easier to find the investment property in […]
One year after buying property in USA (Las Vegas) – numbers, thoughts, strategy
24 comments so farI owed you guys who are following the Buying Property in USA blog this post already for a few months. It has been 1 year since I bought my properties in Las Vegas and Phoenix already last October (2010). However I was in the middle of purchasing a new property in Topeka, Kansas and also […]
8 Tips for Hiring the Best Property Manager
8 comments so farEven though I have already written the next post, for my calculations of the first year returns on my 2 properties (in Las Vegas and Phoenix), it happened that I am changing again a property manager in Las Vegas. When looking for a new one, I have read my old posts to remind myself what […]
How to keep track of your property’s operating data (incomes/expenses), simple and free
5 comments so farToday’s post is not providing anything revolutionary, and for some people may be almost unimportant. However in the previous articles here at “buying property in USA” blog, I promised to show you guys how I keep track of my property incomes, and expenses (and any other operation data and information) – in a simple and […]
Real Estate Analysis FREE: New features!
2 comments so farAs you all probably know, I am the author of a free property analysis tool called Real Estate Analysis FREE. I am happy to announce some new features which I have been developing in the past few months. As always, this tool is free for anybody and I will be just happy if more people […]
Buying investment property in Topeka, Kansas
7 comments so farAs I have mentioned in the previous post here at Buying Property in USA blog, I had a chance to spend some time in Kansas last year. I started looking around for investment properties, mainly because of the proximity to my future-in-law family. I wanted to be able to use the travel cost as a business […]
High rental yield markets in the USA
4 comments so farTowards the end of the year 2010, I started putting together operational numbers (income and expenses) for my two condos. I will publish them in one of the next posts at Buying Property in USA blog. However what I observed was the unfortunate fact – that the positive cashflow I was expecting didn’t appear that […]
Spring Efforts in getting financing in USA
6 comments so farMaybe the most important part of buying property in usa is actually getting a financing in the USA. If you followed similar path of acquiring property in USA, you have also founded an American LLC and probably bought a first property for cash. It was clear last year, when I was trying to get a […]
What I have bought in Las Vegas
7 comments so farAs I already have written in the Buying property in USA blog, there are many buyers in Las Vegas and huge bidding wars on all the cheap properties. I spent most of the 3-week stay in Las Vegas, driving around new properties on the market, visiting them with my Real Estate agent and placing offers. […]
How I bought a property in Phoenix
3 comments so farI had 3 weeks to buy two properties in two different cities – Las Vegas, NV and Phoenix, AZ. Buying property in USA in these two cities has an advantage, they are less than 6 hours away from each other by car! Therefore approximately after 10 days spent in Las Vegas, I left early in […]