Real Estate Development Marketing

April 13, 2009

As soon as you open your ‘baby blue eyes’ every morning!

“The Easy Part of Property Development is Spending Money” … “Marketing Is What Gets It Back + A Bit More For Profit.”

Anyone can spend money. It takes a good manager to spend it at a predetermined rate in line with a planned ‘cash flow.’

So this topic is very important. People think Development Marketing is all about putting an advert in the paper, designing a brochure and following up the agents … I don’t think so folks!!

Marketing starts before you buy the land.

The location of the land impacts on marketing. Is it a desirable address? Is it in a prestigue location? What market sector of the buying public are you aiming for? Does the site have local prominence? Does the land have quality houses around it? Baca Lanjutanya..

Asset Searching for Recovery Actions - The Decision Maker’s Tool

April 13, 2009

In Part One of this article we took a look at some minimum recommendations for asset searches as a recovery medium. This discussion is based on the assumption that an asset search has already been determined to be sanctionable by, for example, a loan in default, a judgment that has been rendered, a court order obtained for the release of credit information in cases that are not clearly defined under the FCRA or “extended consent” given in a creditor/debtor or employee - employer relationship.

As Part One suggested, to properly identify a non-corporate subject, fraud examiners in non-law enforcement environments should take the following steps:

* Obtain credit reports form the three major credit bureaus, per FCRA requirements

* Obtain social security traces form the three major credit bureaus.

* Obtain address update/credit report header information from the three major credit bureaus.

* Match the information obtained through the independent sources to the information presented by the subject of the asset search.

Part One also provided suggestions for determining assets, including real property ownership, vehicular searches, vessel ownership, aircraft ownership, and banking information. Following is additional financial and business information that should be gathered, as well as liability-related data that impacts the subject’s net worth in a recovery action. Baca Lanjutanya..