Who else is concerned about where to put their hard earned money? We have an interesting dichotomy right now where foreigners are using their strong Euro, Canadian dollar, Saudi Riyal, United Arab Emirates Emirati dirham, to buy up United States real estate…and for American residents, we are wondering where we should invest as the U.S. dollar weakens, stocks plummet and real estate prices decline.

One obvious option is to pick up the real estate deals in the form of short sale real estate investing, foreclosures, and bulk real estate portfolios. This required due diligence and economic research to insure your “deal” doesn’t become a “bad deal” if the real estate purchased declines a further 10% after you have bought it!

One not so obvious choice is to ‘sprinkle your cash’ across the globe by investing in choice real estate in various countries. Think about it, having a nice ocean side condo in Ecuador, a mere 3 or so hour direct flight from Atlanta or even a shorter hop from Miami! How about a ski side chalet in a popular European resort or an up and coming ski and play area in Eastern Europe?

The following list below contains the main Las Vegas casinos being built or completed (that matter) with expected primary employment figures:

Casinos being built or completed recently:

• Palazzo (Venetion) – estimated employment = 6,000
• Encore (Wynn) – estimated employment = 8,000
• CityCentre 11,000
• Fountainebleau 8,000
• Echelon Place (former Stardust) 11,000
• Plaza 10,000

Total Primary Employment when you add it up = 54,000

Then typically for each new employee they bring family so mulitply 54,000 by 2.5 = 140,000 people

Then once new people move into an area, there are services that must be provided to support the influx such as schools, grocery stores, hair salons, etc.

So you multiply 140,000 by 3-4 times as that will be the additional amount of people needed for that local economy to run smoothly.

You see know who the estimated figure of 500,000 people, new jobs, new influx into Las Vegas will occur once 2012 comes our way.

That means Las Vegas will be entering a demand cycle by 2012.

Anyone want to make bets on this? Hope you benefitted from this post, Maria Gudelis

I made plans to meet the motivated seller at the home and while touring the interior of the home and entering the master bedroom…voila…a stripper pole installed on a nice stage in the master bedroom!

Only in Las Vegas?? Click to read more!

I pose this question to you as one of the Principles of Value in real estate is

• Increasing/Decreasing Returns – An example is upgrades on a house, will you get value (as in ‘make money’) out of an upgrades you are doing – the norm is NO – you get 20 cents on the dollar for most upgrades! Did you know, builders today are finally ‘getting’ it and are no longer going to do ‘upgrades’ in Las Vegas new homes and instead, decrease prices to you so you can get $25,000 or more off the price!

So go for it, what do YOU THINK - is the investment of a stripper pole an increasing or decreasing return?

Feel free to Comment with your answer below! Enjoy this quirky post! Maria Gudelis

Foreclosure is just one of those areas. It was Robert Allen who said “More bargains are available in the area of foreclosures than in any other area of real estate.” (Multiple Streams of Income – p.157)

You see, in the last year if you went with a mindset that you will get a great deal at these auctions your chances of that were pretty slim as they didn’t let the price go too low or as low as a SANE real estate investor would pay for a property to allow a profit margin after fix up, marketing costs, realtor commissions paid, holding costs and your cost of financing.

Well, as reported by Bruce Norris at a recent Bill Gatten real estate seminar, the tide has turned as his company finally won an auction for a price that is a deal for a real estate investor. His team had to look at 40 houses to find that one deal but he figures there is about $20,000 profit in that deal.

Stay tuned for more info on the real estate auction house prices.

Seriously, if I could show you how to increase your buyers list by 328% would you like that? If spending just 10 minutes of your time today to hear a great tip that could bring you an extra $10,000 a month – wouldn’t that be great? Take real estate guru Dwan Twyford, I’ve coached her on some key web 2.0 tactics and in less than a month, she has mastered the art of the ‘flip video’ and had now rocked on posting video on her sites and web 2.0 sites that allows more CASH to go into her BANK ACCOUNT. How good is that?

Stay tuned for more web 2.0 tips and strategies. Maria Gudelis

Why pre-foreclosure real estate investing? Because it is one of the easiest, low risk, no huge cash outlay type of real estate investing to make! One of the hot tips for the month to give you is that there are two great sources of getting deals to your front door so to say. One is via a realtor, and the other is simply calling your local attorneys in the area.

I would highly recommend that you call 10 realtors and 10 lawyers as the stats go…only one out of 10 you will find that you want to work with. Some will be great, some will be downright rude, some will be just wanting to waste your time…so thus, the 1 out of 10 ratio. It is worth the time investment as that one realtor or lawyer can provide a deal for you that is going to put $10,000 at least in your pocket.

Click on the more button to see the TOP TEN LIST of Searches in eBay Real Estate:

So you can see Florida, Texas and California being pretty hot! Note, that these search top ten list can change and it is important to see each month what the top 20 searches are on ebay real estate.

For instance, only a few years ago, Las Vegas or Nevada was in the Top Ten and it isn’t right now…and that makes sense as there are far more sellers than buyers in Vegas right now for real estate! However, it doesn’t mean Las Vegas real estate isn’t a good idea, as there are great deals in the tsunami of foreclosures going on now in Las Vegas and one thing Maria Gudelis knows: there are still more people moving into Las Vegas than moving out…just check with the DMV to see that!

That means long term – Las Vegas real estate is great place to invest!

Secrets to Foreclosure Investing in Real estate as revealed by Maria Gudelis, who has been featured on TV and an expert in virtual real estate investing systems and marketing to quickly sell real estate in tough down markets.

One of the most powerful secret to investing in foreclosures is getting access to great data. Years ago, this was an expensive and arduous process whereby you had to physically to the county courthouse and look at the physical paper documents of the ‘Notice of Default’ filing.

Today, thanks to technology and the vastness of the internet, access to public records is as easy as a click away! There are a variety of online resources that provide ‘gold’ to you in the form of names, addresses and where in the pre-foreclosure process that homeowner is in.

This data can bring you thousands of dollars of profit as you can then do mailing campaigns to the notice of default homeowners to create win/win results for all parties involved. I highly recommend you use at least seven, YES SEVEN, types of mailings to your list as it is a proven fact that it takes more than one letter or postcard before a person will call you!