Investment Property
November 18th, 2008 — 05:43 pm
Now that the new president has been elected we have doubts about the purchasing of investment property housing markets because of the “crash site on wall street”. I get a lot of people coming up to me everyday asking me is the housing market good to be in right now. In my opinion you have your “Good Side” to be on and you have a “Not So Good Side To Be On”. Either way it goes someone is winning and someone is loosing, but it all depends on the stock markets. The markets even the housing markets depends on the rise and fall of goods. The banks have already spent so much money which have been wasted on bad loans that it will be really difficult for a lot of people to get a loan anywhere. Let me explain to you in detail what I mean.
The Investment Property Owner
Because of the falling stock market people are really worried about it. The investment property owners are likely the most worried. At this time the housing market has fallen. The houses that were purchased by the investment property owners may have been cheap when they bought those houses. Down the years people build equity on these properties and sell them double the price, but now that the market has changed so has the money that was so profitable. Loosing money is obviously not the answer here. So is this the end for property owners? Of course not, the stock market can’t stay down forever. The best answer to there question is to put a tenant in that house until then. You may get by with a $10,000 dollar profit, but do you want to bail out now? I don’t think so!
The Buyers
This may be a great opportunity for buyers to buy a house now that the housing market has fallen to a watery grave, but don’t forget about the job market also. Should you take a chance on buying a house without guaranteed of having employment in the household? Renting a house is a good option right now if that worries you. Although the housing market is cheaper there are still concerns of getting a mortgage loan from a bank. Tons of banks won’t even look at you because of this hard hit. Congress have passed this $700 billion dollar bailout for companies, such as, lending tree to offer there customers a way to keep there homes, but how far this will go for the economy and people to keep there homes without foreclosure. You must understand and continue to be updated on your employer stock and economical growth and determine if you are ready to buy a house.
These times are really hard due to the troubling financial job market. All over the United States people are being laid off left and right. Millions of people are in need of jobs in California, Jobs in Illinois, Jobs in Ohio, Jobs in Florida, and many more because of the neglect of our former president Bush. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out this crucial matter and it must be fixed immediately before it gets worse. The question is how do things get so bad and why? Many of us Americans say that jobs are being shipped over seas because of cheap labor. That’s the job of our presidents…to keep this from happening they must pass a bill to keep the remaining jobs that we have here in the US in our jurisdiction, and to build millions of more job opportunities for hard working American people. It have been really generous for American companies to spread a little wealth around the world to other countries, but now it’s time to rebuild what have been knocked down.