As a real estate investor, you may use your home as your office.  Having part of your home as a business expense can allow you to depreciate some of the improvements to your home office.  The IRS has a depreciation schedule that helps you calculate the exact amount that can be counted toward your taxes.  [...]

A lot of people have been asking me what I think about mortgage interest rates as they sit here in March 2010.  Obviously, I am not going to be able to give you a definitive answer.  That said, a lot of things are working toward interest rates going up.  Not the least of which is [...]

Here is a great resource put out that shows a heat map of the 2008 US Foreclosure Heat Map. This gives you a good idea where the mortgage and real estate markets have fell apart the most.