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2/86

How I earned a 109% return... and how you can, too...by refinancing (mortgage, prepayment penalties, transaction costs)
When you need real estate tax advice, call one of these guys (Baldassari, Campbell, DeJong, Gabrielson, Justman, Lageschulte, Merritt, Nitti, vonGal)
Freddie Mac will now do second mortgages (FHLMC, Law of Supply and Demand)
No sale of FHA after all
Standard & Poor's now rates office and apartment buildings (interest rates)
Computer generated classified ads (Harold Douthit, NewsAd)
Section 8 rent increases allowed due to insurance hikes (HUD)
"Revenue neutrality" gives way to tax raise talk (Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction bill, National Association of Manufacturers)
What the switch to "claims made" liability insurance may mean to you (Greg Crouch)
MacInTax looks good (Form 1040)
NAR membership barometer up
Decline in interest rates has raised property values (single-family residences, breakeven cash flow)
When rapid amortization makes sense (prepayments)
Positive cash flow practically impossible in rental houses (loan-to-value ratio)
Try canceling your mortgage insurance (escrow shortage)
Industrial property "most promising" says Roulac (Roulac's Strategic Real Estate)
ARMs at lowest market share since April '83 (NAR, ARM)
Seller financing hits new low (NAR)

3/86

Should you use the "vulture" strategy? (distress, negative cash flow, deferred maintenance)
Big changes asked for VA and FHA loans (insurance premium)
Switch to screw-in fluorescent bulbs to cut expenses and increase income property value (Maintenance Wartehouse catalog)
Why you should try to get sunset clauses in mortgages, Part I (Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)
IRS releases 19-year ACRS tables
FNMA loosens rules...slightly
You may be entitled to a check from FHA (HUD)
Claiming depreciation does not kill 2-year reinvestment option (Stephen & Valerie Bolaris, Ninth Circuit Court fo Appeals)
January 1, 1987 may be tax law date
Taxpayer wins home office deduction; "focal point" concept rejected (Meiers, 57 AFTR 2d 86-642)
Don't split up small properties
"Affordability" index breaks 100 first time in 7 years (institutional loan)
Rent control upheld by Supreme Court again (Fisher v. Berkeley, equal protection)

4/86

There's gold in them thar settlement statements (fire insurance, guaranteed replacement cost)
Check your annual loan statements, too (mortgage lender)
Being on 60 Minutes (nothing down, Norman Gorin, Bob Allen, Real Estate Investing Letter)
A 60 Minutes "outtake" (nothing down, Joe Land, William Nickerson)
Why you should try to get sunset clauses in mortgages, Part II (sunset clauses, lien)
Don't credit lease payments toward option price (fair market rent)
A Packwood in a China shop (tax reform, income averaging, blind-side economics)
4.5% real estate commissions on home sales? (Donald Senterfitt)
VA rescued; now FHA may run out
This newsletter will be fully indexed
What if no inflation?
Spur-of-the-moment nothing down deals may be wired in advance
Radon gas...what next? (Boyertown, PA)

5/86

How you should think about overbuilding problems
Alert! Packwood's plan would hurt you
What free-and-clear, zero-bracket examples reveal (amortization)
The never sell or exchange strategy
Packwood plan attacks real estate investors (Tax Reform Act of 1986, investment tax credit)
The Kassuba of '86 is EPIC/B of A/Hall/Technical Equities/Balcor/Etc. (overbuilding)
Average 27% increase in flood insurance premiums (Federal Insurance Administration)
Interesting alternative to litigation (mediation, mock trial, EnDispute)
Ponzi Syndrome may be more dangerous than Ponzi Scheme (syndication)
FHA may require credit check on assumptions
Current "sellers' market" in some areas is really a buyers' market
One phone call reduces apartment owners annual gas bill by $72.45 per unit (Charles Meier, gas)

6/86

How the Packwood tax bill would affect you (Tax Reform Act of 1986) 6 pages (Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Senate FinanceCommittee Report, income averaging, Scott Slesinger)
IRS says you must amortize refinancing points
Magic! How an incentive plan cut my vacant unit electric bills $15/month
We can't all be contrarians (U.S. Housing Markets)
Longer holding periods, fewer condo conversions (Cain & Scott Apartment Market Study)
Real Estate Crash authors kill their newsletter (Sound Advice)
Making money in MA

7/86

How to make money by splitting off excess land (double lot, variance, adjacvent property owner)
Report from the Southwestern Front (overbuilding, tax reform)
Should you walk away from a building if Packwood's bill becomes law? (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Tufts 51 U.S.L.W. 4518, lenders, personal liability, sunk cost)
Post-Tax Reform Act of 1986 investment strategy (cash flow guarantee)
Why you can't find an 8-unit apartment building (William Nickerson)
Refinancing may increase your alternative minimum tax (refinanced mortgages)
Supreme Court buzzes inverse condemnation for the fourth time (Agins v. Tiburon; San Diego Electric; Williamson County v. Hamilton Bank; MacDonald, Sumner, and Frates v. Yolo County)
How's about a Landlord Aid concert?
How Tax Reform has affected the market so far (Mike Scott, Accelerated Cost Recovery System)
Grannie Mae and Daddy Mac quit because of tax reform (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Beware of insurance binders(Greg Crouch)
California landlords may now go out of the landlord business (Santa Monica)

8/86

Pride of ownership and your strategy (CCIM, appreciation rates, liquidity)
Small silver lining in the tax reform/overbuilding cloud (property tax assessment, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
More details about how the new tax law affects you (Tax Reform Act of 1986, loan-to-value ratio, Tax Reform Act of 1984)
Get a prepayment bonus in below-market seller loans)
Should you invest in one-industry areas? (military base closings, oil, small towns)
Asbestos, PCBs, and other toxics in real estate (How To Buy An Office Building)
Balkanization of the real estate market
More evidence of dispersement (International Coucil of Shopping Centers, 800 numbers)
Smaller tax deductions unless you buy quickly
Newsletter on commercial leasing (Leasing Professional)
Book review: Smart Trust Deed Investing by George Coats (California)
Book review: Regions of Opportunity by Jack Lessinger
Buying real estate for 60 cents on the dollar (syndicator, current market value)

9/86

How to escape the new tax law's passive loss limits (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Complaint about loan policy gets $218 refund and $200 annual savings (guaranteed replacement cost insurance)
A possible loophole in the new tax law (Tax Reform Act of 1986, limited partnership)
Mobile home parks as investments
Sellers who must sell only decent market (REO, Tax Reform Act of 1986, lenders)
Why rush to get 20% capital gains rate? (exchange)
The investing lamp is now lit
Surprise in rent control study
Are parking lots the answer? (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Research convinces judge to up awards to landlords (apartment cleaning costs)
190,000 tenants switched to home ownership
It's all in her mind (New York City rent control)
Exchanging more popular with maximum rate 28%
Top real estate agent earned $854,351 in '85 (Nicholas Barsan)
Howard Jarvis dies (property tax assessment)
Used partnerships for sale (limited partnerships, syndication)

10/86

Can you assume inflation when deflation is so widespread? (Consumer Price Index, appreciation)
Are S corporations the answer to the new tax law? (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
For the investor who has everything: a new goal (quality of life)
Case study: title problem = profit (John Beck)
Trash compacting may save you thousands
Are you aware of your investment assumptions?(higher after-tax return, cash flow)
August 17th was cutoff for refinancing home interest deductibility
The "silent crash" in office building market values (Anthony Downs, National Real Estate Investor)
Mobile home park booklet (Mobile-Home Parks Park Development and Operations)
Book review: How to profit on the real estate roller coaster by Marvin T. Levin
"Quality" apartment prices down 7%
Tax calculations: back of envelope out, computer in (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Automatic inflation adjustment makes overinsurance worse
Manufacturer claims panels save electric (Myron Kahn, Polarized Intertnational)
High unemployment in your area? Maybe time to hire (applicant pool)
Max tax fax lax...real estate investors get ax (Tax Reform Act of 1986)

11/86

Everybody's a #%&@! contrarian (overbuilding, strategy, Real Estate Research Corporation)
Packwood out as Senate Finance chairman (election, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Forget end-of-an-era tax tactics (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Exchange warning
Rental houses revisited (positive cash flow, loan-to-value ratio, transaction costs, home owners)
$1,000 expenditure cuts insurance $11,205 (Willard Hammonds)
The zero-coupon bond or single-premium life insurance policy acquisition techniques (financing, savings bond)
Free apartment in return for work?
Oct. 22 was "date of enactment" (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
PC tax software claims new tax law included (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Where lenders fear to tread (redlining)
FSLIC is a time bomb
It ain't all that complicated, Wall Street Journal (financing, Robert Guenther)
Supreme Court says tax benefits not income (Randall v. Loftsgaarden, limited partnership)
Tony Hoffman's National Superstar, Inc. bankrupt (guru, National Superstar Inc)
Credit check required for FHA assumptions starting Dec. 1 (HUD, NAR)
New book: How to Increase the Value of Real Estate by John T. Reed (renovation, zoning, title)

12/86

Should you use the deep pockets strategy? (loan-to-value ratio)
Easy money from vending machines (Thomas Sudyk)
Should you close your pool? (Ro Freeman, National Apartment Association)
It takes a big PIG to use up a PAL (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Clauses for when you sell property (warranities)
Consolidate rental houses
Canada did tax reform in '71 (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Kenneth Rosen)
Highest and lowest appreciation rates
Rates of return on real estate about half of '84 levels
Nickerson's new book: No Risk Way to Real Estate Fortune
Second home interest deductible only if...
Utility may pay for burned-out motor (air-conditioning)
1,250% increase in laundry income (embezzlement)
The herd switches to retail (Roulac's Strategic Real Estate
Tax reform's effect on values, rents (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Salomon Brothers)
Apartment vacancies up almost everywhere (overbuilding, U.S. Housing Markets)

1/87

"All you need are the right people" (management, landlord)
The ham slice method of PIG use (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Separate meters and submeters (How To Manage Apartments for Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value)
A self-postponing prophecy (cycle)
What you need to know about aluminum wiring (U.S. Consumer Product Safety)
Cost cutting (compensation, FICA, employee)
Your hostile takeovers (employees)
The National Association of Formerly Wealthy Persons
The Best Lawyers in America (book)
Big rush to close deals at end of '86 (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Bay Area)
Asbestos info
What real estate investors bought
You read it here first (home improvements)
Government loan proposals would lower house values (Office of Management and Budget, FHA, VA, GNMA)
Former Nothing Down Club president gets prison term (Jim Southard)
Now it's better to flunk the 14-day test on your vacation home (Tax Reform Act of 1986)

2/87

Comfort levels and real estate investing (Alan Parisse, Consolidated Capital)
The borrowing buyer who always sells (Bill Manley, loan-to-value ratio, equity buildup)
Are you spending too much on outside contractors: Plumbers? (management)
Investor saves $280 per year for life on water bill (plumbing)
Report from the front (overbuilding, heat lamps, drapes, vacancy rate, drapes)
Where appreciation comes from (income stream, speculative mania, Consumer Price Index, Economic Recovery Tax Act)
Real estate investment books/cassettes for rent
Bentsen on passive loss limits: "Manana is soon enough for me" (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Apt. starts finally down
10% is the new vacancy assumption (Anthony Downs)
How to cut your workers compensation premium (insurance)
Bill would exempt non-dealers from new installment sale rules (Tax Reform Act of 1986) (Ed Jenkins)
Is lease-option seller an active participant? (Tax Reform Act of 1986, equity)
How to make $10,000 an hour...briefly (financing, Sig Anderman, APR)
You may be entitled to involuntary conversion benefits (destruction, condemnation)
Newsletter on distress properties (John Beck)

3/87

Investment dangers and opportunities in homeowners associations (juries, common area maintainence)
How to report your refinancing (tax return, unamortized fees)
Beware of pretty faces and gamblers (pride of ownership, speculation, William Nickerson, pride-of-ownership properties)
Which is cheaper: service contract or pay as needed? (maintenance, HVAC)
What if the escrow company steals your money? Part I (unsecured loan, Tom Nitti)
Commercial rent control thrown out in Bezerkeley
Illegal alien law and you (employee, Immigration Control and Legalization Amendments Act of 1986)
Poetic justice: former controlled tenants become landlords (rent control, mobilehomes)
Subscribe, she wrote (Jane Bryant Quinn)
Manager call pads (management)
"Nothing wrong" bills (maintenance, heat, air-conditioning)
Lead in your water
Home equity loan binge will backfire (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Wright wants to raise your taxes
Why even 2,500? (overbuilding)

4/87

The selective leper strategy (Tax Reform Act of 1986, carrying costs, Bill Manley, contrarian)
What if the escrow company steals your money?, Part II
First, break out the personal property; then, divide land and improvements
Interest rate increase means drop in property values
Tax changes I'd like to see (dealer, improvement ratio)
Senate also has installment sale bill now (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
IRS's prorate-home-improvement-points theory now in writing
Omission in new tax law allows rehab tax credit on non-historic residential property (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Hard to refinance with cash out on non-owner-occupied houses
Asbestos could be salvation of new office building owners; ruin of other owners
"Distress bargain" too much of a bargain for court (IRS auction)
New transaction-reporting rules may affect you

5/87

Small rent decrease raises income dramatically
Inflation affects real estate differently today (interest rates)
Upstairs/downstairs rent differential (management)
Thoughts on real estate investment strategy 1987
Second water meter may pay
Protectionism, the dollar, and real estate
Go after your deadbeats
Commercial mortgage market dead
Strongest S&Ls become banks; It's cheaper
Deregulation and FSLIC mismanagement, not tax shelter, may explain overbuilding
Moody's now issuing market/property type ratings
You should wire loan payoffs
Texas condos to be deliberately burned (overbuilding)
Should you try to sell your building to the Japanese?
De minimus separate meters may pay
NJ makes lenders pay for toxic wastes

6/87

High court: Government must pay property owners when regulation goes too far
Yes, you lower existing tenants' rents
Profits in view liberation
New IRS forms forebode Tax Reform Act of 1986 pain
Texas marketing in the Northeast market?
Which is better: Owner or concession-run laundry?
Liberation of federally-subsidized buildings (financing)
Real estate guru bankruptcy of the month (Al Lowry)
Bankruptcy judge requires foreclosure seller to seek fair value
Oversupply "perpetual" (overbuilding)
MLP income may be declared non-passive (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
$100 storage boxes rent for $25 per month (management)
Tenants turned landlords rebuffed on rent increases (rent control)
Old depreciation rules do not apply in exchanges (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Self-help asbestos clean-up can kill

7/87

Properties, properties everywhere but not a deal worth doing
We need low interest seller financing
Can't make mortgage payments
Which first in exchange: Find buyer or new property?
Adjoining property run down
Good news and bad news from Supreme Court (access, inverse condemnation, Nollan, First English Lutheran Church)
You should get more co-signers
Real estate guru bankruptcies of the month (Wade Cook, David Glubetich)
No exchange of pure vacation home
Will AIDS affect real estate?
Early warning of the bankruptcies
More tax reform coming...and it ain't good (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Antichurning rules still apply to pre-'81 basis (Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981)

8/87

Do you really need positive cash flow? (Tax Reform Act of 1986, leverage, tax benefits)
On paying down rental property mortgages
A look at your future with the Tax Reform Act of 1986
Lowering rents does not hurt the industry
Prepare the deed yourself
IRS says interest expense must be allocated by use of loan proceeds
Good guys win again on excess loans over basis (Stonecrest, Hunt, United Pacific Corp., Professional Equities, Inc.)
Will the FSLIC depress the market by forcing S&Ls to sell foreclosed properties?
Recession is overdue
"...and the taxes have already been paid" (installment sale)
Prepayment mortgage bonus requires purchase price adjustment
Appreciation rates vary widely

9/87

Institutional financing for rental property
More than fifty miles from Provo (Robert Allen, nothing down)
Make tenants pay for drain stoppages they cause
Tax reform may have doubled your marginal after-tax income and expenses (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Should you get zero coupon financing?
Does it makes sense to cut your laundry to 25 cents?
Bill would allow deduction of cash losses
Another lender accepts guaranteed replacement cost insurance
Investor gets $18,167 refund from sewer utility
Mortgage rate increases make ARMs more popular
Best real estate computer program may not have "real estate" in its name (MacInTax)
A legitimate, profitable nothing down deal
Survey shows surprisingly high down payments

10/87

Less is more under the Tax Reform Act of 1986
Sellers who are likely to sell cheap
Prorate the second month's rent, not the first
The stock market plunge and real estate
Why you should use cap rates to analyze small properties
Back-door vulture strategy
New CA and MA laws prohibit commercial rent control and overinsurance
Congressional study: Tax Reform Act of 1986 did not cause rent increases
Book review: Great Depression of 1990 (Ravi Batra)
"Off a cliff" in 2010? (demographics)
Walk away gain is passive income (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Congress: Limit home mortgage interest deductions
A clearer explanation of post-TRA '86 capital expenditures (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Landlording book software

11/87

Vultures, you are cleared for takeoff
If you have rental losses, the AMT will probably getcha (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
The best of both worlds: a hedged ARM, Part I (financing, interest rate futures, margin, line of credit)
Real estate in the Depression
Retail not overbuilt everywhere
Another reason to be nice to your tenants
Study shows homeowner associations have lots of litigation
Conflict of interest?
House bill would limit tax-free exchanges to $100,000 of gain per year
Insurance crisis over; shopping can save 25% to 50%
Employee screening tests
Commercial sales down 50%

12/87

Lease-options: what you need to know
March to the sound of the guns
'86 Installment sale rules repealed; no to exchange limit (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
The best of both world: A hedged ARM, Part II (financing, interest rate futures, margin, line of credit)
Book review: Donald Trump's Art of the Deal
Renegotiating your mortgage
FASB: "tell the truth" Lenders: "Are you crazy?"
FNMA/FHLMC raise mortgage limits 10%
Phase-in delays zero bracket status for most (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Less is 55% more (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
The Bronx is up and the Beanery's down (appreciation rates)
A consultant is born
Money in leave-behinds (property management)

1/88

Tax Reform Act of 1986 exchange depreciation rules
Installment sales are back (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Lease options: What you need to know, Part II
Why you should study your vacancies in minute detail
New home mortgage rules (Revenue Act of 1987)
Home ownership draining off mucho tenants
MacInTax soon available fro IBM, Apple IIGS, NY State
Do you need a computer in real estate?
Some will be forced to install sprinklers
New fixed-rate mortgage with cheap refinancing
Task force would eliminate hedged ARMs (financing)
Book review: Managing Residential Real Estate
Joint venture may be way to get at S&Ls' horde of distressed property
California companies tell delinquent tenants how to delay evictions

2/88

Case history: Positive cash flow rental house
Did you unknowingly pay part of the previous owner's property taxes?
Huge regional differences in returns
The future of exchanges
Workout (renegotiation, bankruptcy, cram down)
How to keep CA evictions secret
IRS to follow pro-taxpayer home office decision on pre-'87 returns
New FHA assumption rules
New VA mortgage rules
Hotels, motels, and the passive loss limits
No documents, no exchange
Due-on-sale not relevant to exchange with lender
Book review: Real estate after tax reform
Institutional investors suddenly interested in apartments
...Appearing in a theater near you?

3/88

IRS issues retroactive regs on passive losses
Are you an evener? (sunk cost)
Get a real estate license
How real estate investing really works
Supreme Court: Hardship rent control provision does not violate due process or equal protection (takings, Pennell v. City of San Jose)
Utility deadbeat market segment (separate meters, master meters)
Lease option can mean bigger vandalism
VA resumes selling its foreclosed houses on zero-down basis
"The social unrest is falling! The social unrest is falling!" (rent control, FHA, financing)
This Old House renovation $350,000 over budget
50 Tax preparers get 50 different answers for 50 different fees
Recourse renegotiation
Keep rental house water in your name
Cash flow, pride, and absentee investors in Seattle
No vote for IBM MacInTax

4/88

Niche, niche, who's got a niche? (waiting lists, rent control)
Buddy, can you spare an affordable housing unit?
Do high-priced properties appreciate faster?
A corporation and its real estate are soon parted
Can your trash containers kill?
You should use direct mail
Promising anti-rent control weapon
What tenants say they'll pay for various amenities
Check list of possible buyers for your property
Use one of my exchange attorneys
The syndicators blinked
He's not meathead
Did you double-count depreciation in your alternative minimum tax?
Amortization deduction

5/88

Condo investment return well behind houses
Real estate investing: How hard? How to?
The shared appreciation reverse annuity mortgage
The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Now we know
Should you use a tax preparer?
Can you deflation-proof your real estate with zero coupon bonds?
Rent control fights in Michigan, California
Transfer taxes may spread
Fast, cheap credit checks through your modem
You must report mortgage interest you receive to IRS
More on direct mail
Payoff of federal apartment mortgages could trigger nationwide rent control battles
Mobilehome buyout declared unconstitutional (rent control)
Liability insurance may cover some rent control litigation

6/88

How to avoid taxes on property deeded back to lender by exchanging
Alcoholic and drug addict sellers (foreclosure, guardianship, conservatorship, John Beck)
Profit opportunities in bad foundations (Robert Wade Brown)
Beware the pretenders (credit check)
Rent hikes and decreases
Fixed-rate income property mortgages
IRS rejects rent control tenant's over-55 gain exclusion claim
Conversion from co-op to condo is like-kind exchange for investor
Foreign tenants
Book review: How to Buy Used and Bruised Houses for Fast Profits!
Marc Goodfriend dies
Probably no tax improvement this year
Drug addicts off handicapped list
Lower insurance rates, tighter requirements
Follow-up: Condo appreciation rates

7/88

Eleven percent cap rates really are obtainable (Mike Scott, Seattle)
Places Rated for investment
Deals that makes sense: One-bedroom houses
Subscriber hit by fraudulent trust deed
Dallas landlords neglecting properties
IRS issues home mortgage deduction rules
Five minute call saves 15% on hazard insurance
Is the worst over? (Ro Freeman)
San Francisco is HOT!
Book review: Barron's Real Estate Handbook
You owe depositors $500
Fair Housing passes house (Fair Housing Amendments Act)
Tax extension poll results

8/88

How to buy for half price and nothing down (moving building)
14 who outperformed their market (foreclosures)
Do real estate agents steal the best listings?
Don't fudge identification in a delayed exchange
Book review: Managing single-family houses
Transfers (security deposit)
Rent-control escapees double property values (Ellis Act, tenants in common, Santa Monica v. Yarmark)
How to minimize your workers comp premiums
California's bell-shaped cap rate curve
Can part-time investors get decent returns?

9/88

What if values don't always go up?
Big profits...and big losses... from toxics panic (asbestos)
Credits at closing
Deals that make sense: Investing by flashlight (FHA repo's)
If you have an ARM, you're an insurance company
More on building moving (George Rohmeyer, Jr.)
Eleven percent cap rate investor heard from
Drug dealers may be "good pay" but...
Fair Housing Amendments Act signed
Higher minimum wage
Value added by improvements
Use after-credits price
New 800-Number

10/88

The siren song of speculation
Deals that pencil out: Rooming houses
The Nickerson formula lives
Double-digit cap rate sightings
45-day rule leads to overpaying (exchange)
Loophole in HUD assumption document
Better treatment from lenders
FNMA/FHLMC down payment now 30%

11/88

Positive cash flow: The Thomas System (pre-foreclosure)
Long-term investment is a contradiction in terms
How to find deals that make sense: Property wanted ads
The election results and real estate investors
Book review: Showdown at Gucci Gulch (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Taxpayer loses exchange case (Maxwell)
Sit back and wait?
Tax reform drop 13% (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Chamber of Commerce speech of the decade
"Insisting on breakeven"
IRS gives up on Stonecrest (installment sales, excess loans over basis, Professional Equities)

12/88

How to get positive cash flow: Buy two, get one for 2/3 off
Reverse Starker exchanges
Autopsy of a disaster (renegotiation, deed in lieu of foreclosure, overbuilding, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Rooming houses
Election day
$25,000 a month
Delayed exchange
Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988
S&L execs say restore tax breaks
Take the money...and the houses, too (moving buildings)
Buy to asbestos profits
More exchange attorneys

1/89

Deals that make sense: Probate property bargains
Delayed exchanges cost too much
The wisdom of making less per deal
Reverse Starkers: Part II (exchange)
Where real contrarians invest (Anchorage)
FHA has first loss ever
I'm the whole "company"
Book review: Twenty Proven Ways to Profit from Real Estate
3- & 4-plex rules tighter
"Single-family fascisti" invade College Park, MD
One-bedroom houses revisited
Mr. Fixer says six-on-a-lot better (Jay P. DeCima)
Replace par flood lights

2/89

Deals that make sense: Partial interests, Part I (tenant in common, Dwain Sachs, Mike Scott, partition lawsuit)
Ranger real estate investing (bargain purchase, upgrading, How to Increase the Value of Real Estate)
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 rises again (Pacific Legal Foundation, Bateson v. Geisse, due process, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, taking, First English Evangelical Church of Glendale, Nollan, Hall v. Santa Barbara, Pennell v. City of San Jose)
OK to use home for investment debt (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Audit poll results
Anchorage follow up
Why prices soar
The Comstock verses (Michael Aronstein)
HUD prepay class-action (FHA mortgage, Thetford Properties IV Ltd. and Baker Street Assoc. v. HUD, rent control)

3/89

Making a million in one year
Deals that make sense: Partial interests, Part II (tenant in common, Ron Starr, Stephen Kapit, partition lawsuit)
What's your problem?
Reading, writing, and the Golden Rule (personal liability, nonrecourse, assignment of insurance)
What PLAM's would mean (price level adjusted mortgage)
Bush wants lower long-term capital gains rate...but not for you
Greenmail for real estate investors (rent control)
Do higher-priced homes appreciate faster?
Another new mortgage: Prepayment at market
More building materials that can cost you money (fire-retardant plywood, Sarabond)

4/89

AMT lessons learned (Tax Reform Act of 1986, alternative minimum tax, Bob Baldassari)
Arbitration
What your problem? (exchange, sale leasebacks, passive income
WSJ article says fixers rarely profitable
Table-top fusion
More on partial interests
House price control proposed in Bezerkeley
Margin calls for home loans
No good office buildings (recently) (Sam Zell)
31% error rate in one ARM survey

5/89

The way we were
Is option money s-till not taxed until the option is exercised or expires? (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Barney Zick, Dill Company, Pickard, Gerald Robinson)
How to avoid renting to children
Lease-option defaults, walk aways, etc. (Richard Gardiner, John Schaub, Bill Manley, Dan Kinter)
Last months blank spreadsheets (AMT)
Kaplan: "Too much risk"
Info for mortgage buyers (George Coats, Jimmy Napier)
Toxic contamination is involuntary conversion
What fills office buildings?
Timeshares stink
Many rumors of exchange restrictions (Gary Rosenberg, Stephen Roulac, Starker, Brauer, Biggs, New order processor

6/89

The Thomas System, Part II (Ted Thomas, pre-foreclosure)
Protection against uninsurable catastrophes (Peter Huber, Fair Housing Amendments, punitive damages, toxic contamination, corporation, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1899, Jay W. Mitton, trusts)
What's your problem? (passive losses, dealer, Proposition 13, appreciation)
The investor who went out in the cold (VA repo, Larry Kaplan)
Just say yes to pay phones
Capital gains rumors
No-child-in-one-bedroom policy costs apartment owner $33,000 (Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988)
Oklahoma City bargains

7/89

Deals that make sense: Judgment investing (Lloyd Walters, bankruptcy)
Break out land improvements (depreciation)
The Donald & Leona Tax Reform Act of 89 (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
How to lock interest rates even when the lender refuses (hedge, GNMA, mortgage-backed option)
Underground tanks (Joyce Rizzo, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
Subscriber gets $8,000 from article advice (alternative minimum tax)
Fraudulent trust deed II (Sus Niimi)
Capital gains tax cut appears dead
We've got a pulse! (office buildings)
FHA reverse equity loans
The meaning of Houston (overbuilding)

8/89

Proposed exchange limits (Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1989, similar use, Richard Goodman, Brandt Nicholson)
The holy graph (appreciation)
Roommates pay more than tenants
Hazardous substances in 1- to 4-family (FNMA)
Lender "owners"
Book review: Trammell Crow, Master Builder
Where punitive damages are insurable
Mobilehome landlord wins taking case (rent control)
Ted Thomas Expose (pre-foreclosure, Howard Ruff)
Harvard asbestos study
Apartment asbestos bill
File an amended return (Larry Kaplan, Bob Baldassari)

9/89

Capital gain tax cut (exchange)
Contractor estimates
Sellers who welsh (option, specific performance)
Environmental audits (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, Joyce Rizzo, Mark Bennett)
Depreciate twice?
Anti-landlord drug law
Double-digit cap rates in Memphis
More on Oklahoma City (Ron Starr)
Texas bill to limit deficiency judgments
Vacancy problems in Boston area
CFC ban on the way (chlorofluorocarbons)
Low-income Housing Preservation of 1987 Act upheld (FHA mortgage, prepayment, rent control)
Lenders finally taking a hit on OREO's
Reader poll: Environmental audits

10/89

Buyers who overpay (value in use, landlocked land, assembly)
Environmental audits, Part II (toxic contamination, Mark Bennett, serial deeding, exchange, Jack Campbell)
Earthquakes and real estate investors (A.M. Best, Peter Yanev)
The $90,000 stone's throw (immigration)
Book review: Two books on the S&L crisis (Inside Job, How to Profit From the S&L Crisis, FSLIC, FADA, RTC)
Drug seizures of property (Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984)
How to reduce your workers comp (Greg Crouch)
Call it an appreciation gains tax cut (recapture, Tax Reform Act of 1986)

11/89

Buyers who overpay, II (John Beck, Ron Starr, Western Land Bank, Peter Bogart)
Formulas that stop working
Reader feedback on toxics (gas station, asbestos, underground tanks)
How to bet on real estate races after the race is over (options, right of redemption)
New MacInTax programs
Evict dealers or else
Why depreciate?
Asbestos bill: $100 to $200 billion
Senate rejects most exchange changes
Second edition of Tappans exchange book now out (Tax Reform Act of 1984)
Minimum wage increased
RTC bargains
Punitive damages OK (Fourteenth Amendment, due process, Combined Insurance Co. v. Ainsworth, Clardy v. Sanders, Vintage Enterprises v. Jay)
Liberal exchange regs expected

12/89

Deals that make sense: OREO's, Part I (foreclosure, Ernie Kessler, Larry Kaplan)
The new exchange law (related parties, IRC § 267B, foreign real estate)
More rights of redemption (sheriff's sale, John Beck)
Rights of redemption by state (George Coats, John Beck)
Software for investors (MacInTax, Quicken, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Turbo tax, Real Data, Leigh Robinson, Landlording)
Deficiency judgments California-style (anti-deficiency judgment statute, purchase money mortgage, refinancing, subordination, earthquake)
New edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors is out
Why depreciate? II (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Signs of nationwide decline in house values (FNMA, FHLMC, FHFB, NAR)
Master-metered buildings' rents disproportionately higher than utilities (NAA)

1/90

The real estate B.S. artist detection checklist (Bill Tappan, Leigh Robinson)
Deals that make sense: OREO's, Part II (John Beck, Ron Starr, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Cost accounting in real estate
A mom and pop operation
More computers
Why not bankruptcy? (deficiency judgment)
Why depreciate? III
Campeau bankrupt
Investors in a time warp
Rent skimming

2/90

New mortgage rules hurt (FHA, assumption, due-on-sale, Wellenkamp v. Bank of America, de la Cuesta, lease option, land contract, foreclosure, VA, FHLMC)
Real estate investors and pension plans (Bob Baldassari, Jim McIlrath, SEP)
Calculated risks, Part I
Capital gains again
The election to treat properties separately
Focal point test dies a little (home office, Cristo, Meiers, Soliman)
Housing starts at '82 levels
RTC inches forward... or is it backward?
More FHLMC restrictions
Contamination in 20% of properties
The '80s and real estate investing (Mike Scott)
Few finance books left

3/90

Trial (Crowell v. Housing Authority of the City of Dallas)
Calculated risks, Part II
New exchange regs (Adam Handler)
Existing options (toxic contamination, Richard Gardiner)
Bill to allow current loss deductions for some (real estate professional)
No deductions for excess nonrecourse debt above fair market value (Pleasant Summit Land Corp., Estate of Franklin, Odend'hal)
More B.S. (John Schaub, Papersource, Bill Mencarow)
Book review: Ted Thomas's Your Compete Guide to Foreclosure Profits (preforeclosures)

4/90

Exchanging into equity sharing
Trial, Part II (Stowers Furniture Company v. American Indemnity Company)
Existing options, Part II (In re James Moore, Kendall v. Ernest Pestana)
Anchorage revisited
CA, NW, TX lead apartment price appreciation
Lenders retreating on mobilehomes (Hall v. City of Santa Barbara)
Earthquake value effects tied to major elevated roadways
The two-step mortgage (FNMA)
RTC lightens up
As the prepayment turns
New 800-number

5/90

The Stephenson System (raw land)
Exchanging into equity sharing, Part II (shared appreciation mortgage, tenant in common)
What's your problem?
How Trump lost a billion?
Another mobilehome rent control victory (Pinewood Estates of Michigan v. Barnegat Township Leveling Board)
All passengers get wet when you perforate the bottom of the boat (Inmar Assoc. v Borough of Carlstadt, Tax Reform Act of 1986, rent control, RTC)
MAIs quit NAR
1099s to be required on most deals
Revenue Ruling approves direct deeding (exchange)
All out of Apartment Investing Check Lists

6/90

Proposed exchange regs finally out (direct deeding, embezzlement, Starker, reverse Starker)
Dwain Sachs' probate system (direct mail)
Battle of the asbestos studies
What's your problem? (Al Lowry, Exchange, RTC)
The ultimate vulture strategy (life estate, remainder estate)
RTC price cuts: less than meets the eye
Environmental liability
Summary of Fair Housing Law Amendments
Many appraisers see no toxics, hear no toxics... (environmental liability)
High default rate on private mortgages (Jane Garvey, Bill Mencarow, PaperSource)
Low-wattage sodium lights available

7/90

Deals that make sense: How to buy profitably at foreclosure auctions (Paul Thompson)
New exchange regs, II
The ultimate vulture strategy, Part II (life estate, remainder estate, hedging)
What's your problem? (property manager, exchange, refinance, Bill Tappan, FundAmerica)
Court says refinance points deductible on home (JR Huntsman)
Lender liable for toxics (U.S. v. Fleet Factors Corp., Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Delayed exchange facilitators unregulated
Please, no more FundAmerica pitches
Recession signs
More rent-control victories

8/90

Deals that make sense: Unfit for human occupancy (Bob Bruss)
A way to get out of real estate tax-free (charitable remainder trust, life estate, remainder estate)
War
Deals that make sense: Two bargain houses (lease option)
FundAmerica implodes
$5,000 seminars (Howard Ruff, Ted Thomas, guru)
425,000/day PCB fines
Median house $45,100 in Youngstown, OH
Legal or laundering? (substitution of collateral)
FNMA looking for liars

9/90

Deals that make sense: Foreclosure auction case history (Paul Thompson, delayed exchange)
Deals that make sense: Gary DiGrazia's greatest hit (probate)
There is no boilerplate
Option taxation revisited
Book review: A Practical Guide to Winning Land Use Approvals
Realtor® guilty of fraud in creative FHA deals
52% have lead paint
Landlord may be liable for hole in fence
Exchange after conversion of partnership to tenancy in common disallowed (Chase)
Clauses to get in your environmental audit contract
Lenders futilely seek exemption from toxic liabilities (Fleet Factors, RTC)

10/90

Deals that make sense: Discount lien releases (Ted Thomas, John Beck)
Property management lessons learned
The Chase decision (tenant in common, exchange)
Deals that make sense: 40% to 80% discounts (landlocked land, life estate, George Rohmeyer)
CA taxpayers overlook state tax credit on apartment/farm capital gain
Higher taxes, lower deductions
Ellis Act upheld again
Movie review: Pacific Heights
RTC fighting rent control
NYC cracks down on heartless landlord (Mother Theresa)
More exchange regs
States that preempt rent control
New edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors is out
Congress considering RTC income tax credit

11/90

How to deal with today's market: Are you a member of real estate's Black Watch? (bankruptcy)
Deals that makes sense: Discount lien release, II (homestead, Ted Thomas, George Coats)
Refinancing "In anticipation of an exchange" (Frederick W. Behrens)
Deals that make sense: John Schaub's fsbo system
Higher taxes
1990 election results (rent control)
Tenant dumps roaches in court
Earthquake warnings
Lack of real estate credit (refinance)
Office building value drops
Manolakas responds (option)
Sick building suits costly (sick building syndrome, George Bourassa)
RTC bargain sighted (Joseph Smith)

12/90

Deals that make sense: Bankruptcy property (Eileen Thompson)
Black Watch, Part II (bankruptcy, home equity, Craig Hall, Ted Thomas, divorce, child abuse)
Deals that make sense: Execution sale superbargain (60 Minutes, redemption period, homeowners dues, eviction, Bank of Seoul & Trust Co. v. Marcione)
Book review: Bionomics (Michael Rothschild)
The homeless city planner
The Soldiers and Sailors Civil Act of 1940 (Balconi v. Dvascas)
Rape case inspires statewide form changes
Underground tank costs (Joyce Rizzo, toxic contamination)
California, Hawaii buyers withhold income tax from out-of-state sellers
Joint-signature accounts for delayed exchanges (Richard Goodman)
"Reverse Starker" exchanges (Richard Goodman)
Correction to Aggressive Tax Avoidance exchange gain worksheet
New book by John T. Reed: Residential Property Acquisition Handbook

1/91

Deals that make sense: Profits from loopholes (rent control, Jon Vicars, Kim Marienthal, Adler v. Elphick, community apartment project, tenant in common, Ruth Baskanauskas v. Nancy Urdan, refinancing, condo conversion, Ocean House Corp. v. Permanent Rent Control Board, Tom Nitti, anti-retaliation law, John O'Reilly, Santa Monica, Berkeley, Ellis Act, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Special report on lease options (exchange, due-on-sale clause, Wellenkamp, de la Cuesta, Fred Crane, Richard Gardiner, installment sale)
Deals that make sense: Execution sale superbargain, Part II (60 Minutes, Charles Morrone, John Beck, Ron Starr, judgments, homestead, Lloyd Walters, execution lien, embezzlement, publicity)
Craig Hall's Pyrrhic victory (bankruptcy)
New CA law require cancel PMI at 75% of value
Damned affordability! (Harley Rouda)
Morality and California home prices (put option)
Landlord loses Fair Housing case for insisting drug addicts fill out rental applications
Child labor fines increased to $10,000 (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Fair Labor Standards Act, Harry Weisbrod)
BYO electricity (Larry Kaplan)
Power lines
900-number for insurance-company ratings (A.M. Best)
Last chance to renew at $99

2/91

More judgment investing (Lloyd Walters, foreclosure, microfiche)
New IRS exchange form (Form 8824)
Watch what you say (discrimination)
OSHA rules on asbestos exposure
...problem of the first magnitude (asbestos)
Due diligence standards (ASTM, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
The value of perfect information (Bob Baldassari, dealer)
HUD comes after me (discrimination)
2 common misconceptions (exchange, suspended losses, passive income, Bob Baldassari)
Big Rouda is watching (NAR)
Foreclosures up
Radon not so bad after all
California's drought
Correction of the correction (exchange)

3/91

Reverse Starker case history (exchange, Larry Nappe, option, serial deeding, embezzlement, Richard Goodman, insured closing letter, joint account, Brandt Nicholson)
The value of perfect information, Part II (lease options, Richard Gardiner)
Deals that make sense: IRS sales (John Beck, Steve Hinton, Mark Anthenien, right of redemption, agreement to bid, Ron Starr)
Treat notes like cash in exchange
Asbestos disaster say judges
Jump in activity on February 21st (Jane Garvey)
Price: $380 Clean-up cost: $600,000 or $25,000/day (Kenneth Groves)
Income standards for tenants OK (Unruh Civil Rights Act, discrimination, Harris v. Capital Growth)
Diplomatic immunity for activated reservists and national guards (Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940)
Subscription rate increase April 1st

4/91

Deals that make sense: Unknown owners (Jay Segel, genealogy, resort, law of descent)
Drug property seizures (Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, forfeiture, U.S. v. One Lincoln Mark IV, U.S. Marshal)
Audit (TCMP, Mary Sprouse, exchange)
Interest rates random
The last fax
NY Times against rent control
Berkeley bans tenant-in-common conversions (Kim Mariental, rent control)
Exchange instructions for IRS Form 4794
New minimum wage may not apply to you (Harry Weisbrod, Fair Labor Standards Act)
Air-conditioner repairs
RTC repudiates rent controlled leases
Tag-along auction
Beware assault exclusion in liability insurance (Stephen Drake Insurance Co. v. Levinson)

5/91

Deals that make sense: Owner unknown, Part II (Jay Segel, tenant in common, Mormon Church, genealogy, partition lawsuit, finders fee)
Audit, Part II TCMP
Final exchange regs (reverse Starker, direct deeding, intermediary, to-be-constructed property, letter of credit)
Can't finance income properties
School crises hurt home values
In anticipation of exchange regs dropped
Negligent hiring prevention
Judgment investing career stats (Lloyd Walters)
Two person per bedroom OK (Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, HUD)
Pension fund money
The drunk under the lamp post (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, toxic contamination)

6/91

Deals that make sense: Delinquent tax sales (right of redemption, Ron Starr, raw land)
Deals that make sense: Owner unknown, Part III (Jay Segel, escaped land, adverse possession, trespass, John Beck, rent skimming, Al Lowry, Ted Thomas)
Common transactions
Can't refinance (renegotiation)
DiGrazia probate book out (Gary DiGrazia)
Cash equivalents
Macy's chickens out of Prop 13 challenge (property tax assessment)
2nd opinion on Bionomics (Michael Rothschild)
Kooks (haunted houses, AIDS, bad luck, toxic contamination)
San Francisco loses interim decontrol (rent control)
Latest Fair Housing money winners announced (Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, discrimination)
Fewest housing starts since WWII
But what does Gay think? (street name)

7/91

Equity sharing, Part I (appreciation, Black Lung Benefits Act, tenant in common, exchange)
Section 8 (George Kaplan, HUD, lead paint)
No more than four mortgages per person (FNMA, Paul Thompson)
What's your problem? (self storage, base closing)
Report cash payers of $10,000 per year rent
Welcome Real Estate Report Subscribers (Stephen Tytler)
Insured closing letters (Richard Goodman)
Book review: Managing Mobilehome Parks
Exchange facilitator and $1.5 million missing (Derek Reynolds, Exchange Channels, Inc.)
@*#%! sales tax
More delinquent tax sales (Ron Starr)
New lease option report (Dan Kinter, Bob Bruss, dealer)

8/91

Deals that make sense: Converting ones to twos (Jim Campbell, workers comp)
Equity sharing, Part II (Marilyn Sullivan, Bob Baldassari, disproportionate allocation, exchange)
How to use ARMs safely (Joseph Murphy, Jr.)
How to Use Leverage... found
More dispersion (Bill Mencarow)
New environmental rules
More RTC horror stories (Floyd Price, Gerry Stark)
Interest rate locking insurance
AMA says learn to live with asbestos
Vacancies - $25,000 fine (rent control, Cambridge)
Weisbrod glad he's spared (IREM)
New area code

9/91

Deals that make sense: Distressed builder auctions (Paul Thompson)
How to use ARMs safely, Part II (assumability)
Deals that make sense: Converting ones to twos, Part II (Jim Campbell, foreclosure, Paul Thompson, Title I, 203(k), basement apartment)
Working for the government
Chicken Little of the Year (Jack Lessinger, Penturbia, Ravi Batra, Comstock Report)
Clairvoyant of the Year (Maxwell Drever)
The second mortgage from hell (Bill Mencarow, Pacific Heights)
Raped tenant wins $17.1 million from landlord
Lead paint removal costs $3,000 to $15,000 a unit (George Kaplan, HUD)
Texas now even better for bankrupts
Best not good enough (A.M. Best, insurance, Jane Bryant Quinn, Moody's, Standard & Poor's)

10/91

Clarence Thomas and realty
Much ado about delayed exchange law (reverse Starker, intermediary, constructive receipt, embezzlement, installment sale, extortion)
Jon Richards' note system (John Beck, finders fees, direct mail)
Trapped (refinance, negative cash flow, negative equity, exchange, renegotiation)
Book review: Making the Most of Your Money (Jane Bryant Quinn)
67 tenant each sue landlord for $5,000 over drug dealers---and win (small claims court, Berkeley)
Lucrative apartment market coming
Discrimination insurance
Another asbestos study
Bankruptcy offer escape from environmental cleanup costs (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Above-ground tanks may not be the answer
Prop 13 challenge could affect federal taxes
How to Manage Residential Property for Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value 3rd ed. out
Firestorm (Berkeley, Oakland, rent control)

11/91

Deals that make sense: Smart trust deed investing (George Coats, Jon Richards, Michael Milken co-op, raw land, Bob Bruss, refinance)
Much ado about exchange law, Part II (intermediary)
Opportunities and hazards in wetlands (Clean Water Act of 1972, Corps of Engineers, taking)
Discrimination insurance details (Greg Crouch)
More re Clarence Thomas (Harry Weisbrod)
Mobilehome rent control headed for U.S. Supreme Court, loses in 9th Circuit (Nollan, First English Evangelical Church of Glendale)
Election results (rent control)
Another lead paint estimate
Establishing higher rents (annuity)

12/91

One investor's career (George Davidson, fixer, pre-foreclosure, probate, refinance, fire damage)
Deals that make sense: Pre-tax auction bargain (Ron Starr)
Deals that make sense: Smart Trust Deed Investing, Part II (George Coats)
Mortgage case history: a cautionary tale (Jane Garvey, racketeering, bankruptcy)
Wetlands handbook
Criminal penalties for pollution
Environmentalist willing to take less for wetlands
Homeless Christmas
Landlord sued for tenant's manslaughter
Another way to escape rent control (Berkeley, Ellis Act, Santa Monica Rent Control Board v. Bluvshtein)
Written injury-prevention program now required (OSHA)

1/92

One investor's career, Part II (George Davidson)
Mortgage case history: a cautionary tale, Part II (Jane Garvey)
Litigated to death
New 11th edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors off the press
That which they greatly feared has come to pass (delayed exchange, intermediary, In re San Diego Realty Exchange, Donald Cook, constructive trust, Ponzi Scheme, commingling)
Get me on the phone (exchange)
They ARE making more of it (Soviet Union)
Arrest records off limits (Harry Weisbrod)

2/92

Bush's tax proposals (long-term capital gain, AMT, first home credit, passive loss limit)
Deals that make sense: Executive-suite sandwich leases
First-year expensing for residential property (Phillip Storrer, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Edwin Curphey, Hoopengarner)
Bad to worse (office vacancy)
Schedule C vs. Schedule E (MacInTax, self-employment income)
Regulators told to bet on the come
Asbestos hysteria may have killed Challenger astronauts
Building owners win one (discrimination)
ATLA litigation groups (homeowner warranty, automatic door, construction site accident, electromagnetic radiation, glazed-top flooring, lead paint, liquid propane gas, tap-water burn, asbestos)
Near-perfect landlord pays 41.2 million (rape, security)
41% of Phase I environmental audits inaccurate (Glen Sibley)

3/92

Deals that make sense: Converting a duplex back to a single-family house
New Form 8829 for home office
Deals that make sense: How one vulture made $1 million since 1988 (Anchorage, industrial property, office building, FDIC, asbestos)
Nonrecourse financing (put option, at-risk rule, stop-loss agreement)
Exchange attorney fees (Jack Campbell, Brooke Gabrielson)
Bush bill defeated 427-1 (Bill Orton, NYU)
Democrats' tax bill
'More carnage ahead' in hotel business
Apartment starts really low
Dumb accountant story #2,022 (lease option)
Environmentalist pollutes house with no-preservatives paint (Berkeley)
Home office leads to mileage deductions (Soliman)
Form 8829 continued (home office)
We 'property firsters' (Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, ocean front, taking, Plessy v. Ferguson, Fifth Amendment)

4/92

Deals that make sense: Home-builder leftovers (construction-defects lawsuit, FNMA, Lewis Goodkin)
Profitable pre-sale fixup (William Nickerson, How I turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate in My Spare Time in 1959)
Loss, $54,348.90; deductible loss, -0- (Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Tax Reform of 1986, Garn Act)
Agents outraged at Tobias column in Time
Foreclosing lender must disclose known defects at foreclosure auction (California Real Estate Law, George Karoutas, Karoutas v. HomFed Bank)
Number of rooms still OK
Do-gooder landlords bomb in Chicago
Supreme court upholds rent control again (Yee v. Escondido)
Craig Hall goes bankrupt (Craig Hall's "News of my death was greatly exaggerated")
Foreclosure v. deed in lieu (Distress Sales Report)
You may be overinsured
Debt reduction may not be income
Free lawsuits; but no jobs (Rand Institute)
Merrill Lynch 0-down deal (FNMA)

5/92

Divorce and real estate
Institutional lender renegotiation (FHLMC, discharge of indebtedness income)
Riots and real estate (Los Angeles riots)
Book review: Foreclosure Gold Mining (Your Illustrated guide to Foreclosure Gold Mining)
Financial Freedom Report stops publication (Mark O. Haroldsen, Richard Dewberry, Al Lowry)
U.S. Supreme Court says housing fees OK (low-income housing)
You'll pay for lead soon (Environmental Update)
Wetlands designation costs town $283,000 / year (East Rutherford, NJ)
Four $60,000 houses sell for $1.17 million (Ron Starr)
More presale preparation (Paul Andrews)
Management company? (investment tax credit)
Hand trucks are cheaper than refrigerators
Obscure hot spots
Husband-wife manager teams may have to be paid equally (Sandra S. Dean v. Limited Food Stores, Inc.)

6/92

Deals that make sense: Divorce and real estate, Part II (contingent balloon payment, Smart Trust Deed Investing in California, Dan Kinter)
Institutional lender renegotiation, Part II (FDIC v. Coleman)
New passive loss regs
Correction: Financial Freedom Report goes quarterly
Drug testing–damned if you do... (invasion of privacy, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress)
High Court upholds Prop 13
Freon rules effective July 1
Bankruptcy bargain not good enough
Lead paint litigation (Creative Investment Adviser)
20-year light bulb
What's your problem?

7/92

Deals that make sense: Three bargain purchases (Glen Whitfield)
Regulation that prohibits all 'economic use' requires compensation (Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon)
Real estate in the '90s (flipping)
Book review: Made in America
Most timeshares unsold after 4.4 years (Resort Property Owners Association)
Condo litigation too much for some businesses (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Arbitration may be solution to some litigation (Bank of America, Wells Fargo)
Passive loss limit relief passes House (Revenue Act of 1992, Large Landlords Relief Act)
Hoist on their own petard (fourteenth amendment)
'Sophisticated national financial systems' (Jones Lang Wooton)

8/92

Deals that make sense: Phoenix VA repos (Distress Sales Report, Government National Mortgage Association, John Beck, EPIC)
Fighting city hall (Sandy Rothschild, PATH)
Money and the '90s
Fair Housing Amendments burning slow learners (Timus v. William J. Davis, Inc.)
Pending lead paint law (Lead Exposure Reduction Act of 1992)
Environmental liability insurance a must for loan
OK to discriminate against multiple adults?
Checking out insurers (The Insurance Forum, S & P)
Home owner ordered to pay neighbors $155,000 by small claims court
Book review: Hidden Profits by Zick (equity-sharing option)

9/92

The rental property credit crunch, Part I
Can you exchange into to-be-constructed buildings? (Bloomington Coca-Cola Bottling Company vs. Commissioner, Coastal Terminals, Inc. v. U.S.)
What's Your Problem?
Church victim of downzoning
Option taxation (Lucas vs. North Texas Lumber Company)
We may lose the word 'investment'
Number of persons per bedroom (Briseno vs. City of Santa Ana, Fair Housing Amendments Act)
VA repos in San Antonio

10/92

The rental property credit crunch, Part II (Crittenden Finance Directory, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Commercial mortgage securitization (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Deals that make sense: Used mobilehomes (Leigh Robinson)
The mom-and-popization of real estate
Accommodating agents
Closed recorders offices (Brandt Nicholson)
Bills to tax CA exchanges (Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. de la Cuesta)
$15 million apartment playground injury award (Handbook for Playground Safety)
FDIC backs down on real estate loan rules
FHA rules eased
Living in a locker

11/92

Fixed-rate, self-amortizing, conventional apartment mortgage
'Won't that affect your credit?' (Weyerhaeuser)
Lead paint bill signed
The presidential election and real estate (Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981)
Don't pay double escrow fees for delayed exchange
Abolition of 'fair market value?'
Real estate brokers to publish own newspapers
Bush vetoes tax bill
'Safe zones' for homeless
Lawyers' in-house delayed exchange facilitators
Study says power lines increase cancer risk
No more sales tax on this newsletter

12/92

The FNMA multifamily mortgage (self-amortizing mortgage)
Weekly resort-area rental houses
Rental property credit crunch, Part III
VA eligibility extended to reservists
Twelfth edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors
More delayed exchange charges
IL land trust like kind for exchange purposes
When do you report exchanges that span two calendar years?
Money due Sec. 8 owners
Good funds rules fouling up some deals
Your deduction, this year; my income, next year

1/93

HUD's 223(f) apartment building mortgage (debt-coverage ratio)
Supreme Court restricts home office deduction (Texas v. New Jersey)
Clinton appointments and real estate (Lloyd Bentsen, Ron Dellums)
It DOES matter where your customers get their money
Half-price title insurance
$1 billion per cancer
Book review: The Buy & Hold Real Estate Strategy (David Schumacher)
Banks balk at joint-signature account
New anti-rent control litigation tactics (Yee v. City of Escondido, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission)

2/93

It's the deficit, stupid (Warren Rudman)
Condo reconversion (OREOs)
Real estate and nursing home costs (income caps)
Clinton’s economic program and real estate
Home seller guilty of involuntary manslaughter
IRS says pre-1992 home office deductions safe
'Failure to maintain:' win one, lose one
Property and casualty rates are increasing because of '92 disasters (Greg Crouch)
Bar Association recommends reverse exchange regulation
If you smoke...

3/93

Deals that make sense: 10% cap rate net leases (Bob Beitz)
Real estate and nursing home costs, Part II (hospice care, Medicaid)
Hyperinflation and real estate (Harry Figgie Jr., indexed principal)
Supreme Court limits drug seizures of real estate (U.S. vs. 92 Buena Vista Avenue, Rumson, N.J. 97-781)
Base closings
Clinton's passive loss proposal
Note investors need to beware of securities laws
Baby boomers numerous but poor
'Abate' drug arrestees in two weeks or else
Handyman wins suit against landlord
Clinton plan to ease real estate credit crunch
Builders turning to pension funds for development money

4/93

Deals that make sense: Tax lien certificates
Loss, $45,241; deductible loss, $198,766 (Dispositions of Entire Interest in Passive Activity, MacInTax®)
Real estate and the information superhighway (Stephen Pizzo, Paul Muolo)
Book Review: Profiting from the Bank and Savings & Loan crisis
Realtors® mad at Good Morning America
Securitized commercial mortgages already here
Disabled access tax credit
Military people cannot lose property at tax sales (Conroy v. Aniskoff)
Underreported big story
All Korean company not discriminating
House forfeited for false statement on loan app (U.S. v. 403 1/2 Skyline Drive, La Habra Heights, CA)
Growth in Florida (Punta Gorda)

5/93

Adverse possession (Thompson v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.)
Real estate and the information superhighway, Part II
Get-rich-quick gurus in trouble
NAR president says Realtors will lose MLS (William Chee)
Lightning victim sues apartment owner
Elder law book address (How to Protect Your Life Savings From Catastrophic Illness and Nursing Homes by Harley Gordon)
NAR not happy with FASB
Lower price on volume back issue orders
Apartment starts down, down, down (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Information superhighway & Wall Street real estate
$500 billion in commercial balloons in next 3 years (Norman Flynn)
Testers get damages for emotional distress (U.S. v. Baliestrieri)
Clinton energy tax would increase office energy bills by 3.34% (Coopers & Lybrand)
Book Review: Owner Unknown: Secrets of the Game Workbook
Darrell and Kathy Gardner retired
Landlord defendant goes into plaintiff business

6/93

Deals that make sense: Profitable renovation (Pier Charter, Charlie Pick)
Adverse possession, Part II
More lease-option experience
Office tenants doubling up
Refinancing–again (FHLMC)
Farmland loses 90% of value in five years
Book review: Duty, Honor, Company (West Point, The Art of War, Sun Tzu)
Interlibrary loans
Maintenance worker asbestos risk very low
U.S. Supreme Court turns down mobilehome case (Sandpiper v. City of Carpinteria, Robert Jagiello)
June election results (Kay Hutchinson, Bob Krueger)
Ginsburg looks good
'Segregate" home office

7/93

Family limited partnership (The Apartment Owner, Charles Grobe, Chatten v. Martell)
Careers in the '90s
What's your problem?
New book: How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value
Senate version of tax bill
The testers are coming
Positive cash flow in Phoenix area
Two rent control victories (Mobilehome Relocation Assistance Act)
Great Society program provides some great deals (Housing and Urban Developing Act of 1968)
Cash news
No bankruptcy 1995

8/93

Clinton's tax law (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
More than four mortgages per person
Family limited partnerships, Part II
The sports franchise leading indicator
Landlords responsible for inside phone cables (Armando Rendon)
Givens on real estate
Family leave makes insurers of some
Lender is alleged owner
Evicted tenant kills landlord (Balbir Lally)

9/93

Family limited partnerships, Part III (Centurion vs. Crocker National Bank)
More than four mortgages per person, Part II (property tax lien certificate, proportionate release clause)
Book Review: Making Money With Mobile Homes by Lonnie Scruggs
Book Review: Handbook for the Financial Analysis of Real Estate Investments by Bill Tappan, Jr.
What's your problem?
Days to not close
Hillary's health plan
Medicaid changes
National Real Estate Investors Association (Nancy Bartz)
'Similar use' again
40% drop in commercial values since peak
No substantial effect on lending
Meters versus stamps

10/93

Deal that make sense: Assessment district sales
Can you spot hot markets in advance? (FNMA bonds)
To sell a house
More family limited partnership (Charles Grobe, Bob Baldassari)
Another delayed exchange accommodator goes under (California Escrow Systems)
Owner must have 'actual knowledge' to forfeit (U.S. v. One Single-Family Residence Located at 6960 Miraflores Ave.)
Scraping or sanding lead paint presumed dangerous by OSHA
The lead-paint police
Getting the property back is not the worst that can happen
Forfeit-minded cops kill innocent property owner over mistaken marijuana sighting (Donald Scott)

11/93

Deals that make sense: Assessment district sales, Part II (Improvement Act of 1911, Municipal Improvement Act of 1913)
Places Rated for Investment (Places Rated Almanac)
NAFTA and real estate
Waste of money
Less than 15 days second home rent may become taxable
OK to sue builder for emotional distress (Salka v. Dean Homes, CA Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District, Division Four)
Appreciation in WA and FL
Fluorescent and HID bulbs are hazardous waste
Vet turned down for loan; bank liable
Election and real estate
Update of lease option article
Texans (Pennzoil v. Texaco)
Turncoat landlord loses most but settles at least one
That's three working days (Lamanna v. Vognar)
Innocent landlord + guilty manager = guilty landlord (Walker v. Crigler and Whitesell)
HUD judgments reduced for sloppiness
Subscriber gets loan as a result of article

12/93

Asset-protection trusts (Uniform Code of Military Justice)
'Close enough for government work'
Book review: Smart Trust Deed Investment in California and the Smart Trust Deed Investor's Forms book
Book review: The Arnold Encyclopedia of Real Estate
Another tax law (Tax Simplification and Technical Corrections Act of 1993)
Lead paint notification rules (Jose Luis Lugo v. City of NY, Preston Ferraro v. Leo Allard)
More family limited partnership info (Low Profile)
Small claims decision for $218,325 against landlord upheld
Asset-protection guide
Thumb print now required to notarize in LA
13th edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors out

1/94

Motel development (Leigh Robinson, Angels Inn)
Vehicle navigation systems and real estate (Global Positioning System, TravTek
Book Review: The West Point Way of Leadership (Larry Donnithorne)
Natural disasters and real estate
More on asset protection trusts (F. Bentley Mooney, Jr.)
Minor miracle
Buying judgments (Lloyd Walters, Paper Source, Bill Mencarow)
FHLMC back in apartment mortgage market
On-line retail
Obesity may be disability (Harry Weisbrod)
Harder to sue landlords
Hedging against dropping property values (Kenneth Harney)

2/94

Upside-down sales (Bob Bruss, Paul Thompson)
Geographic information systems and real estate
How to find out what you need to know (The Rule of Thirds, How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate in my Spare Time)
IRS interest sometimes deductible (Bob Baldassari)
GIS sources
Third refinancing (pay back period)
Rebate at closing
Lessons from Tonya
Refinancing does not invalidate exchange

3/94

Bargain lots at lenders' auctions (Dennis Fassuliotis, The Inve$tor, OREO, auction)
Upside-down mortgage sales, Part II
Banditos
Schools and real estate (school district)
Primary sources
Insurance 'inflation' adjustments
Easier multifamily mortgages
Business notes
How to reduce your sentence for environmental crimes
Higher % of income mortgages
Landlord wins '70s lead-paint suit
Buying buildings to become managers
'20 Hottest white-collar counties' (dispersion)
Finding judgment debtors' bank accounts
More Geospan
Going Beserkeley

4/94

Sea change (history)
Important trends: RVs and real estate (residential property, recreational vehicles, Janet Carter, Workamper News, The Caretaker's Gazzette, Coyote camps, boondocking)
Tax lessons learned
Clinton's health plan at your door
Removal, capital expenditure; encapsulation, expense
Millions filing taxes electronically
Educational Kidware amazingly effective
Young leaving home later
Liberal says employees not worth the trouble
If a phone co. calls, hang up
More time to return security deposits
'25% of landlords distressed'
Seller-paid points now deductible by buyer
'Say the magic word, lose $10,000'
Transformation of apartment finance
Hillary's 'investment'

5/94

Nobody’s fool for a client
RVs and real estate, Part II
Judgment investing revisited
Tax computer program
First Pension bankrupt
Condo prices flat
Boom amidst bust
More lead paint regs
Two-persons-per-bedroom standard may be changed
HUD rules for 55-and-older housing seem veiled effort to abolish it
Unreasonable fear compensable in NY
Cashless, checkless society
Security deposit update

6/94

Nobody’s fool for a client, Part II
RVs and real estate, Part III
GIS in Business Conference
New lease-option report
Book review: How to Nail Down Your Home Improvement Project Without Getting Screwed by Allen Gorin
Book review: Enough by James Schwartz
More TaxCut vs MacInTax
"No irreparable damage"
What's your problem?
More forbidden ad words
No pay for 'on call' time
Mixed marriages fuzzing minority status

7/94

We never close
Property management laws
First Pension Corp. bankruptcy
Citizen's arrest
O.J. for a client
Why liquidate?
Legal Research Network
Seastrand wins; but the opportunity probably ends
No-$-limit homestead exemptions may end

8/94

Finding the best places to invest
Citizen's arrest, Part II
What's your problem?
Supreme Court requires 'rough proportionality'
Landlord liability for assaults
Section 8 landlord may be sued for discriminating against Section 8 tenants
Better tell OSHA, fast!
To the artist belongs the landlord
Fewer outside property manager needed
Apartment cap rates
Prudential 'straight talk'
College by TV
Lawyer reader responds
Skip tracing

9/94

What's your problem?
Fuzzy logic and real estate
Are you sure you're covered by FDIC insurance?
Citizen's arrests in LA
Business valuation books available
Renovating tenant must remove asbestos
'End of the job'
Net worth dropped–home prices
The Compleat Prince William County
'Small-scale, short-duration' asbestos work no longer exempt
No more 40-watt fluorescent tubes
Holding landlords responsible for drug dealers
Some toxic clean-up cost deductible
Better than APR comparison
Gerulaitis death points up need for CO detectors
HUD wants 85.2% to own
Lease co-signers instead of security deposits

10/94

Two probate bargains
Financing check list
Nonconforming uses
PV cells and satellite dishes
GPS allows bad weather flights at rural airports
Utility auditors
Radon disclosure may be required
No-points loans widespread
Fault: 95%, landlord; 5% criminal?
More Mac vs. IBM
Hi-tech, non-Realtor databases arriving
Big RTC profits reported
Can't discriminate against men

11/94

Political revolution
New products
Bad neighbors
Voters end MA rent control
AZ voters reject Fifth Amendment
'Home equity' line for rental properties offered by Bank of America
Time for gift subscriptions
14th edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors available
Solar stuff
Lead disclosure form required in leases and sales agreements
Home ownership rate varies among states
Rural growth
SEC complaint against second mortgage guru
Factory outlet centers
Real estate on the Net?

12/94

Deals that make sense: Two OREO bargains
Caretakers may help you
CD-ROMs for real estate investors
Should you be on the Internet?
Orange County lessons
GATT signed into law
Commission likely to recommend limit interest deduction on homes
Lower ag subsidies
CO detectors
$5,000/mo. rental houses
More foreclosures, fewer opportunities
Accountant-intermediary, $300,000 disappear
More election results
'94 deduction; '95 income

1/95

Turning point in the war against rent control
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Rental property finance
Should you be on the Internet?, Part II
Can't ask about work injuries or health
Occupant-landlord forfeits marijuana property
More real estate CD-ROMs
John T. Reed, Intermediary
I am now on line
Getting on line
Netcom's NetCruiser
4th edition of How to Manage Residential Property... out
Book review: High Rise
Kobe's lack of retrofitting

2/95

Deals that make sense: OREO bargain
Interest rate hikes in the ARM era
If God wanted us to have bookkeepers, He wouldn't have created Quicken
Book Review: The 16% Solution by Joel S. Moskowitz
High-tech ways to do your taxes
'Location-independent'
Surprises in rental ownership
FHLMC requires earthquake insurance on some condos
Unauthorized use of my name and article
Landlord allowed to comply with federal law
Would flat tax cut home values
Contract With America tax proposals
Fannie Mae to accept homes modified for business
HUD OKs many politically incorrect ad words
State environmental rules
Gilder on dispersion
You can't get good help anymore

3/95

Limited liability companies (tax, concealment, LLC)
Deals that make sense: Portable/modular buildings
Deals that make sense: Distressed owner bargains (OJIN, probate, eviction, divorce, sewer liens)
Appraisers, the new Luddites
Processing my own orders (Darrell Gardner)
MacInTax Quicken errors
Security on the Internet
Abortion shooting victim family sues landlord (Lee Ann Nichols, Eva Lee Maltagliati)
Government on-line should devastate West

4/95

Deals that make sense: Delinquent subdivision mortgages (Daniel Schwartz, line of credit)
Deals that make sense: Portable building, Part II (Leigh Robinson)
Gangs and real estate (graffiti)
Book review: Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
Employer insurance
CA legislature moves toward vacancy decontrol
Child lead poisoning exaggerated
Thumbprint, notice work
CD-ROM brochure for million dollar properties (JBS & Associates)
Over-55 housing may be simplified
Correction
New asbestos standards
Malibu ordered to pay $600,000 in rent control dispute (Paradise Cove)
Capital gains tax reduction (National Multi Housing Council)
Multifamily stats directory
Apartment mortgages under $1,000,000 (GMAC Commercial Mortgage)
Good property manager sighted (Vicki Ozburn)
Environmental site assessment insurance
Appraisers diversifying

5/95

Supreme Court overturns ban on unrelated persons living together (rooming house, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Political violence and your real estate (mylar)
Finding financing: More on GMAC's small apartment building mortgage (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Real budget reform and real estate (Roger Brinner)
Escaping laundry concession leases
Community centers top retail property (Ellen Sinreich, freestanding big box stores, retail)
Keep in touch after the auction
Fix your keyboard (Dvorak)
Quickbooks® vs Quicken® and Filemaker® Pro (wholesale distributor)
Mobile offices (recreational vehicles, Dayna Beal)
TX maximum-persons-per-bedroom policy on newborns
Obsolete professional degrees
Satellite phones
Lower priced areas catching up (appreciation rate)

6/95

Senate communications bill should change the world (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Where have all the gurus gone? (Bill Nickerson, Al Lowry, Bill Greene, guru, John Beck, Dave Glubetich, Sonny Bloch, Dave DelDotto, Carleton Sheets, Paul Simon, Tony Hoffman)
Guru spawning grounds
New insurance crisis affecting real estate deals
'Capital-driven' markets–again
High tech taking amazing numbers and variety of jobs (MacInTax)
Japanese as real estate investors
Disaster mortgage insurance (CIGNA)
Rent control for the rich
FHA apartment loans and Section 8 would be cut
Quicken Family Lawyer
Disabled and home office (owner occupants)

7/95

The flat tax (Dick Armey, marriage penalty, dependent, Tax Reform Act of 1986)
Iowa tax lien certificates
Succeeding
More gurus (Evelyn Wood)
More productivity gains
Booms in the rural West
Little HQ on the prairie (Exxon)
Mortgage approval in less than a half hour (Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter)
Bargains in stigmatized houses
Capital gains bill
Dramatic changes in office market (BSI Strategic Decisions)
Owning cheaper than renting in half of markets

8/95

Succeeding, Part II (Vic Zarrow)
The future of shopping and real estate
Does renting your home let you deduct a loss when you sell?
Sometimes you CAN get good help
More flat tax
Lloyd Walters located
Interim decontrol in CA (Elaine Herscher)
House approves telecommunications deregulation bill
Computer speech recognition has arrived
Tax CD-ROM on Mac
Thumbs down on Teleport Gold II fax modem
Annual 'What's your problem?' poll

9/95

Deals that make sense: Houses that smell (Eric Coelho, Bob Bruss)
What's your problem?
Finding financing: Go straight to the source (Bill Mencarow, George Coats)
Financing: New developments in mortgages (100%+ loans, adjustable rate mortgages)
Computer recommendations
Is technology being overhyped?
MacInTax much improved
Continuing bad advice on exchanges
CA Supreme Court ends landlords' strict liability (Becker v. IRM Corp., Peterson v. Riverside County Superior Court)
But strict liability in federal Superfund law (ABD Associates, L.P. v. The American Tobacco Co.)
Mortgages forgiven
Developer required to build replacement swamp
As of 10/1, you're in the asbestos business

10/95

Succeeding, Part III (Adult Children of Alcoholics)
'What's your problem?' (better capitalization rates)
Metropolitan areas versus small towns
O.J. verdict observations (Frank Serpico)
Personal property exchange rules different? (Rowan Companies v. U.S.)
Do you have polybutelene plumbing? (Constant Cox v. Shell Polybutelene Plumbing)
Tax cut for you rich guys (Bill Clinton)
Flat tax after '96 elections (National Multi Housing Council)
Rent cellular tower space (Tom Kerr)
Crime prevention brochure
Concealed weapons policy (Texas Apartment Association)

11/95

Deals that make sense: Foreclosure redemptions (Tom Basile, equity, secured creditors, lien holders, Jane Garvey)
Baby Boomer time bomb (reverse mortgages, pre-foreclosure,
What's your problem? (wraparounds, SIPC insurance, Smith Barney)
Telling panic (National Associations of Realtors, Bud Smith)
3,000 web sites and climbing (Realtor News)
Installment sales still OK (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Revenue Act of 1987)
Appreciation in Salt Lake
'Silent second' mortgage (Richard Barkett)
Wayne Phillips sued by FTC for $2.1 million
No more TCMP audits
Making millions in small towns
Higher 1st-year expensing
Invest in software areas? (Microsoft Word, George Gilder)
John T. Reed speech (Contra Costa Rental Housing Association)

12/95

Deals that make sense: Foreclosure redemptions, Part II (Tom Basile, Paul Henderson, judicial foreclosure, right of redemption,VA repo, media, libel)
What's your problem? (exchange, problem tenants, drug dealer, late charge, media)
Cheap home comps by phone (American Homeowners Foundation, United Homeowners Association, Consumer Reports)
Fortune says buy suburban office buildings (Robert Frank)
Buyer gets $1.5 million for botched toxics report
Givens to pay $377,000 (Charles Givens)
Netting of liabilities in exchanges almost lost (North Shore Bus Company, Wittig)
RTC closing shop (Resolution Trust Corporation, Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982)
Bankruptcy 1995---not! (Harry Figgie, Jr., Paul Erdman, Ravi Batra)
Cheap data mapping (FirstMap, Wessex, MapInfo)
Current and future crime risk assessment (CAP Index. Inc.)
Entire retail industry reshaped
Two Realtors® murdered
Web sites everywhere (Mike Scott)
15th edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors available
Renew now and deduct
Miscellaneous

1/96

Using CD-ROMs to pursue pre-foreclosures (Todd Ward, judicial foreclosure, Metroscan, appraisal, financing, line of credit)
Twenty years of writing on real estate investment (farm land, syndication, refinance, absentee ownership, Tax Reform Act of 1986, solar energy, Proposition 13, view liberation, usury, rent control, gurus, Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, due-an-sale clause, flip, exchange, dispersion, Sunbelt, rental houses)
Selling products for fractions of a cent (Millicent, Internet)
Remainder estate on real estate Methuselah (life estate)
Cashing a rubber check (Bill Gardner)
Rudimentary Web sites (Internet)
Streamlined wetlands procedure for small owners (Corps of Engineers)
On-line environmentals
'They're going to do it again'
1/2 of stores to disappear
Replace over 40 with 40 illegal (age discrimination, Harry Weisbrod)
NV intermediaries need license (delayed exchange)
Appraisal in three hours
Bill loosens over-55 housing rules
Use budget part of Quicken for vacancies
More Baby Boomer time bomb (Jane Bryant Quinn,15-year mortgage, Statistical Abstract)
Gurus in trouble (Jay Goldinger, Capital Insight, Financial News Network, Bill Griffeth)
MA tenants trying to reinstate rent control (Jim Schuele)
Damned if you do...window bars
1/3 gated communities
Miscellaneous (satellite dish, ARM, Tony Hoffman)

2/96

Built for $85 million, sold for $525,000 (Wang Towers)
Computer agents and real estate (Internet, CD-ROM, property tax appeal, MacInTax, TurboTax)
More foreclosures (step-transaction doctrine, substance-over-form doctrine, right of redemption, right of recision, judicial foreclosure, Tom Basile)
More real estate Web sites (Brad Inman, Brandt Nicholson)
Will used-car revolution spread to used houses?
Methuselah correction (Jeanne Calment, remainder estate, life estate, life insurance, annuity)
A year of doing it myself
DataMap feature in Excel
You are where you live (data mining, CACI Marketing Systems)
Lease-option decision (Ryan)
Telecom bill signed
TX utility cutoff changed (master meter)

3/96

Gearing up for the millennium (Internet, fiber optics, cable, ISDN, America OnLine, Earthlink, Webcrawler, Netscape, CD-ROM)
Financial markets show real estate's future
Floundering around the Net for real estate info (Internet, America OnLine, Earthlink, Infoseek, Alta Vista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Brad Inman, homescout)
'All hell is about to break loose...' (J.D. Power & Associates)
Whitewater felonies (James Stewart, Blood Sport, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Mobile offices (recreational vehicles, Mobile Office Vehicle, Inc.)
Model for '90s real estate investors (CD-ROM)
Mortgage pay-down (prepayment bonus)
Virginia lawyers trying to be required in real estate
Private water cheaper

4/96

Lead-based paint regulations (Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, National Lead Information Center)
What's your problem? (software, Word, Excel, Filemaker Pro, Quicken, MacInTax, Turbotax, CD-ROM, negative equity, deficiency judgment, amortization, property tax assessment, separate meters, duplex)
Winner-take-all society
Affordable housing exec killed in Brown plane (Donald Terner, Ron Brown)
Personal touch
Computer secretaries (Wildfire)
Scanners $300 (OCR)
Rent.net (Internet)
Phone directories on line (CD-ROM, bigbook, four11, nyip, switchboard, nowhere)
Wiring the quadriplegic (Internet)
CD-ROM repair guide (Readers Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual, Means Repair and Remodeling Cost Data)

5/96

Bruce Norris's bargain purchase system (sweat equity, property-wanted ads, , OREO, agent, fixer, foreclosure, probate, REDLOC, Daily Default Infoservice, Data Quick, TRW REDI, double escrow)
High-tech real estate information from Metroscan (Todd Ward, CD-ROM, maps, appraisal, Jim Gragg, OCR)
Some retirees choosing college towns
We never hang up (Internet)
PC alarm systems (CyberHouse)
People-to-people stock market
Even ATMs doomed
Real estate directories on the Net (CCIM, MAI)
Environmental reports
Military housing allowance distorts some markets
Computer agents available for stocks
Forecasting appreciation rates
Changes in job types
Consumer Reports comp service (appraisal)
Bank in a van

6/96

You should have your own Web site (Internet, Landlording, Leigh Robinson, virtual domain, PageMill, Submit-it.com)
Teach a real estate class (Ed Shumaker, Clarence Hillman, Bob Bruss, John Beck, William Nickerson, Al Lowry, Bill "Tycoon" Greene)
Business-to-business e-commerce first (Internet)
More direct public offerings (IPO)
Shopping center owner must hire security guards (Lisa P. v. Bingham)
28.8 modem
Small business law center on the Net (Court TV)
Insurance comparison already on the Net (Intuit, Quicken)
Real Estate Information Providers Association
AZ governor indicted on real estate (Fife Symington)
Cavalry to the rescue of malls (mounted security guards)
Crude, free 'credit check' available on-line (Internet)
Welcome changes in Section 8
FSBOs on line (Internet, for sale by owner)
20 properties not too many in exchange (delayed exchange, Raymond St. Laurent)
Building permits on-line (Texas A&M)
Underground tanks must be replaced by 12/22/98 (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
Common-sense clean-up (American Society for Testing and Materials)
Home schools advanced
Correction (Weil, Gotschal, and Manges, lead abatement costs, insurance)
Discounts and call-backs

7/96

Turning points (Inflation Survival Letter, Leigh Robinson, Landlording, Dave Glubetich, Rule of Thirds)
Invest where information is available (FHA, VA, Real Estate Information Providers Association)
How they deal with lead in the lead capitol (Massachusetts, David Bloore, encapsulation)
Lead in miniblinds (Consumer Product Safety Commission, Window Covering Safety Council)
TRW REDI's database (CD-ROM, appraisal)
Beware of phony comps (Ron Starr, property tax appeal)
Environmental hazard data for home buyers (Marshall & Swift)
Internet tenant screening
'Beam up my sense of touch, Scotty' (SensAble Technologies)
California landlords protected from tenant water bills
Office leasing on-line
'King of Torts' dies (Proposition 13, Howard Jarvis, Melvin Belli)
Triplex owner loses $2 million judgment to visitor bitten by dog
Useful free Net stuff
Realty info on-line: MN, FL
Color maps that you can put into your word-processor files (Wessex, CD-ROM)
Nearness to job most important---now
Get judgment to seize future assets (Mr. Landlord)
Temps permanent
Former manager required to pass on property's criminal history (Old v. Lefmark)
Computer judges (SOLOMON, NYU, fuzzy logic)
GPS error eliminated (global positioning system)
Automated translation expands competition
Reducing the load factor

8/96

Taking the lying out of real estate (appraisal, TRW REDI, Metroscan, credit check, Internet, Rent.net, vital statistics, resume commissions, perfect information)
Foreclosure auctions in 1996 (lease option, Paul Thompson, appraisal)
Robert Allen bankrupt (nothing down, win/win)
Realtors® Information Network flops (Richard Chee, realtor.com)
Street-map Web sites (yahoo, map quest, big book, CD-ROM)
Digital credit cards in early 1997---should revolutionize commerce (Visa, Verisign)
Given Organization bankrupt, too (Charles Given)
Design Center 3-D (CD-ROM)
Minimum wage increase
OREO Web site (bankreo)
Tax disk expanded (Tax Analysts, OneDisc)
Drug house owner ordered to pay $95,000 (City of Oakland v. McCullough)
Office building state of the industry (BOMA)
Residential rental market
Hidden costs of trash compacting (Mobilehome Parks Report, Tom Kerr, Leigh Robinson)
Home Depot versus Maintenance Warehouse (Pier-Angelli, Century Maintenance)
Free copies of CCIM directory
Addition to rental property OK as replacement residence (two-year rollover rule)
Free Internet listings (hometeam)
Sale of land under destroyed home is involuntary conversion
Latest OREO figures (Veribanc)
Download while you sleep (Free Loader, Internet)
Consumers rate businesses on the Web (Internet)
Sale of residence to own corp. OK for rollover (two-year rollover rule)

9/96

"Programmed trading' for real estate investors (Texas)
Reputation as an investment strategy (referrals, Dwain Sachs, Claude Ballard, Bob Pritchett, P-Trak)
MAIs confirm downsizing (appraisal, Brian Glanville, Appraisal Institute)
Insurance companies sharing information (National Insurance Crime Bureau)
One Clinton election giveaway would benefit homeowners (long-term capital gain)
Car vs. real estate transfers, what's the difference?
Interesting flood aftermath
Rent control on second homes (mobilehome, Mobilehome Parks Report, Mobilehome Residency Law, Tom Kerr)
Customized news on the Internet (Yahoo, infoseek)
Comprehensive databases (credit check)
'Only the paranoid survive' (Internet, Andy Grove, Intel)
Damned if you do, part 6,326 (sexual harassment, discrimination)
Huge drops in Southern California home values (appreciation)

10/96

Something's always working (William Nickerson)
Better returns through better matchmaking (divorce, discrimination)
If Michael Milken were 25, he'd go into real estate (junk bonds)
New parking crisis (office building, parking ratio)
Comps for $7.50 (appraisal, title search)
Automatic software updates
Changes in foreign asset protection trust law (Engel & Rudman)
Search clearinghouse
Exchange of partial interest for 100% interest OK (tenant in common)
TV good guy becomes landlord
Vote for someone other than Dole or Clinton
2nd edition of How to Buy Real Estate for at Least 20% Below Market Value released (Resolution Trust Corporation)
Kickbacks to financial gurus (Paper Source, Bill Mencarow, Sonny Bloch, Bob Bruss, Paul Thompson, Jim Gragg, Metroscan, TRW REDI)
More real estate-useful Web sites
Democrat real estate felon of the month (Dick Gephardt)
Tenant improvements can be deducted sooner (Small Business Job Protection Act)
Smarter search engine (EchoSearch)
Book review: Investing in Real Estate, 2nd ed.
Correction (rent control)

11/96

Financing an outlying income property (prepayment penalty, rehab, binder title policy, appraisal)
The San Francisco Realtors convention (digital cameras, Geospan, aerial photos, Dataquick, Metroscan, TRW REDI, Paul Thompson, National School Reporting Service)
Election analysis
Residential first-year expensing eliminated retroactively (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, investment tax credit, lodging, Small Business Act of 1996)
Don't renew twice
Real estate internal revenue code sections (One Disc)
Branchless banks are real estateless businesses
Latest fraud: renting vacant foreclosure properties you don't own (adverse possession)
'Tis the season: gift subs
New tax laws (self-employed health insurance, first-year expensing)
Don't incorporate
Electricity shopping guide
No basis for EMF scare (power lines, Ralph Nader, National Research Council)
Sitcom characters live in apartments
Earthquake risk analysis on the Net
Discrimination obsolete?

12/96

Builder leftover lots (Bob Bruss, Wes Phillips, Dan Davis)
Clintons capital gains proposal (Tax Reform Act of 1986)
The coming deregulation of everything (rent control, recreational vehicles, Family Leave Act, minimum wage, Peter Huber)
Deduct in '96, pay in '97
Tiny Tim and tenant screening
All 50 state tax laws on one CD-ROM (One Disc)
Finally! My Web site is up
Changes in Congress's communications oversight
For example...
Fortune again votes for real estate (Michael Milken)
Page-2-of-the-letter trick (Mr. Landlord)
No people like show people
Open-book management
Whether to incorporate

1/97

Ya gotta love it
How to use the Web in your real estate program (Internet, email, chat rooms, bulletin boards, probate, foreclosures)
New, improved Web site (Internet)
Real estate investor Web sites (Internet)
Recapture proposal
Teflon Wade (Wade Cook)
Better background checks (CD-ROM)
Online automated shopping now available
MacInTax now has vacation schedule E (vacation home)

2/97

Deals that make sense: 20% Discount purchase (Wayne Carrington, foreclosure, divorce, mobilehome, assumable mortgage, Carleton Sheets)
Net shopping = catalogs (Internet)
Beware of buying incorporated real estate (due-on-sale clause, usury)
Cost accounting real estate people (one-man shop)
Overwhelmed by Money article
More Web suffixes (Internet, internic)
More directories (Internet, CD-ROM)
Yet another good guy landlord on TV
What's important?
Insurance covered lead injury (LeFrak Organization v. Chubb Custom Insurance Co., General Accident Insurance Co. v. Idbar Realty Corp.)
Net pushing prices down (Internet)
CA Supreme Court hearing new attack on rent control (Pacific Legal Foundation, California Apartment Association)
Net property managing (Internet)
Out-of-print books (Bill Tappan, exchange)

3/97

Extremely low-priced houses (Retirement Places Rated, Leigh Robinson)
Joint parent-child real estate deals (college, equity sharing, co-signer, elder law, Proposition 13)
The new scarcity (George Gilder)
Helping tenants, buyers, and sellers find you (Internet, addme.com, submit-it.com, Yahoo, search engine)
Offer your tenants a cheap T-1 line (ISDN, Mike Petras)
Supreme Court OKs suit for Endangered Species Act damage (Bennett v. Spear)
Estimating value for taxes (William Lewis, Kelley Blue Book)
An easy way to put maps into your Web site
Junk e-mail (Internet, AOL)
Deregulation of everything, II
Ease shower & toilet rules (Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992)
Elevator waits are main tenant concern
Self-storage in RR lots
Big phone, travel savings (Internet, phonemiser)

4/97

Don't evaluate your investment performance 'on the curve' (financing, appreciation, notes)
Joint parent-child real estate deals, Part II (equity sharing, Bob Bruss, equity skimming)
Gary DiGrazia located (probate)
Big bug in MacInTax and maybe Turbo tax (Quicken, Intuit, amortization)
Greater scrutiny for some
Subscriber reports on AR
'You'll lose.' He did. (small claims court)
Net on the march (Internet)
Seminar and home-study rating Web-site (guru)
New products
Vehicle navigation systems in rental cars
Improved my Web site

5/97

Is the cycle dead? (computer, temps, fixed costs, variable costs, sellers' market, buyers' market)
Financing apartment buildings (Mike Scott, debt-coverage ratio)
'The worst thing was to pay retail' (middlemen)
Courts increasingly requiring landlords to provide security guards
Newsgroup adventure (Creative Real Estate Online, guru)
Book review: Find It, Buy It, Fix It (Robert Irwin)
Internet auction site may help you (ebay)
New York may decontrol luxury rentals (rent control)
Subscriber recommends ATX Excel tax templates
On/line building cost service (Marshall & Swift)
Rental inspection law declared unconstitutional
Tenants can no longer vote in some CA elections (assessment, Proposition 13)
Another reason to get rid of your employees (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, disability)
Kickback repelled (Drawbridge)
Something for nothing (George Coats, note brokerage)
Correction (Gary DiGrazia, probate)

6/97

How to increase your rents, and workload, 40% (rooming house, unrelated tenants, Doreen Bierbrier, Eviction Book for California)
Real estate clubs (Al Lowry, Bob Allen, coin-laundry concessionaires, embezzlement, Cincinnati Real Estate Investors Association, Jane Garvey, Bill Snipes, Creative Investors Association, Bay Area Investors Education Services, Paul Berning, National Real Estate Investors Association, Marc Goodfriend)
Lonnie Scruggs' whereabouts
Exchanges under attack again (like kind, similar use, Capitol Motor Car Co.)
Additional price cuts
You may be responsible to clean up lead in soil (Lead-Based Paint Hazard Abatement Act of 1992)
Generation X as tenants, employees, suppliers
Dell Computer shows the future
What college towns? (Peterson's Distance Learning Guide)
Financial Freedom Report accused of 83 counts of deceptive sales practices (Mark Haroldsen, Bob Allen, Marc Garrison)
McCorkle's Cash Flow, Inc. raided and shut down
Net middleman fails (World Avenue, Amazon)
Holy Graph supplanted (median prices, repeat sales index, appreciation)
Miscellaneous (Tom Kerr, Mobilehome Parks Report, Russia farm land)

7/97

Shop around (Internet, appraisal, data mining)
Portfolio management (portfolio effect, portfolio theory, diversification, passive losses, hedge, Tax Reform Act of 1986, interest-rate futures contracts, interest-rate futures put option, efficient market hypothesis)
Questionable infomercials (McCorkle, Ed Beckley, Charles J. Given, David Del Dotto, Financial Freedom Report)
The way title should be (Kelley Blue Book)
Do you know these gurus? (Claude Diamond, Kevin Myers)
Co-op prices going nowhere as usual (Brown, Harris, Stevens)
The ninth most costly catastrophe (hail, roof)
Another AMREX (Internet, search engine)
43-acre residence OK with Tax Court (two-year rollover, Schlicher)
New home trends (Tom Kerr, Mobilehome Parks Report, home office)
Free custom news searcher
Mortgages without loan officers (bad credit, inlandmortgage, countrywide, eastmortg)
NAHB resists utility deregulation

8/97

Analysis of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (homeowner exclusion, long-term capital gain, vacation home, environmental law, discrimination, exchange, two-year rollover, over-55 exclusion, home office, flipping, recapture, IRA)
How I made $10,000 in real estate in my spare time (post office assignment change, Beverly Hills, street names, business names, development names)
Changes in how to get in touch with me (AOL)
Web real estate companies going direct to consumers (Brad Inman, homescout, homeshark, eloan, movequest, dataquick)
Silicon Valley (dispersion, enclaves, Tom Peters)
Lawyers like offshore trusts (Barry Engel)
Beware of high-margin retailers (big box, Toys R Us, Office Depot, Home Depot, Crown Books, Costco, Wal-Mart, )
Commercial parking garages 'inherently dangerous' (Bob Bruss, Sharon P. v. Arman, Ltd.)
Win some (HUD, Fair Housing Act, HUD v. Ludwig)
Correction (Bob Baldassari, securities, capital gains)

9/97

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Part II (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Bill Mencarow, Paper Source, homeowner exclusion, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, alternative minimum tax, Bob Bruss, second home, divorce)
Buy real estate brokerage services at Costco? (Sears)
Video/seminar review: 'Mr. Landlord' (Jeffrey Taylor, turnover, Richard Powelson, Robert Allen, Leigh Robinson, John Beck, Bob Bruss, Ted Thomas, Bill 'Tycoon' Greene)
T-1 lines for apartment tenants (Toscana)
On-line real estate news service (Point Cast)
For sale by owner brings agent out of woodwork
Real estate shills on the Internet (Robert Allen, John Beck, Mark Riddle, Bill Mencarow, internic.com)
Earthquake insurance (State Farm, USAA, Northridge, USGS, purchase-money mortgage, deficiency judgment, refinancing, homerisk.com, fema.gov, quake.wr.usgs.gov, insurance.ca.gov, homeowners.org)
Success for 'purpose' argument in rent control case (Cotati, 152 Valparaiso Associates v. City of Cotati)
Robert Irwin is alive and well in Rancho Palos Verdes

10/97

Book review: The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley, William Danko, Del Dotto, Sheets, Mike and Irene Milin, adult children, William Nickerson, Robert Allen, nothing down, saving)
A clubless real estate club
High tech 'white flight (dispersion)
Installment sale payments will be taxed at new lower rates
Computer house appraisals now cheap, fast, accurate, accepted (cswonline, experian, homeshark)
More useful real estate Web sites (Brad Inman, bankrate.com, dataquick.com, 2001beyond.com, nrs.com, schoolmatch.com, loanlocator,com, crimecheck.com, consumerinfo.com/crime.htm, allapartments.com, serve.com/essex/buyers.html, classifieds2000.com)
New ZIP means higher insurance premium
Expired option money is capital gain under new tax law (Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, involuntary conversion, relative)
Expensive 'boot camps' and 'mentoring' services (Leigh Robinson, John Beck, Bob Bruss, George Coats, CCIM, William Nickerson, Victor Zaro, Irv Deutscher)
Articles and books by the page
Miscellaneous [TRI Financial , FHA, 223(f)]

11/97

XML (Internet, search engine)
Book review: Joe Kaiser's Ultimate Lease Option Strategy (Dave DelDotto, due-on-sale clause, CD-ROM, co-signer)
On-demand printing (Ingram Book Co.)
New law about using credit reports in hiring (Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act)
Don't try to compete with machines (appraisal)
Condo balloons bursting (balloon-reset mortgage, FNMA, FHLMC)
The coming downsizing of real estate (Brad Inman)
IL preempts rent control
Hazards in garage rentals (flammable material, sales tax, electricity)
Use video camera, not digital camera (Ira Serkes)
Satellite Net connection? (ISDN, T-1)
Miscellaneous (Joe Valley)

12/97

Reverse exchange approved in IRS audit (Brandt Nicholson, Bloomington Coca Cola Bottling Company, to-be-constructed property, condo, trust)
Real estate vintages (Al Seestrand, financing, FHA, VA, HUD, assumable mortgages, right of redemption, zoning, lead, aluminum wiring, balloon payment, mobilehome)
Foreclosure title searches (Al Seestrand, judicial foreclosure, toxic contamination, earthquake, subordination, microfiche, XML)
Time cover story: you read it here first (small towns)
Shopping for mortgage on the Net (financing, refinancing, Quicken)
More useful Web sites
Stock commissions down to $7.95, real estate next? (Internet, appraisal)
Highway visibility, local road access (motel, Leigh Robinson)
Lowest prices = highest appreciation rates (pride of ownership)
15% of apartments now advertised on Net (Internet, Brad Inman, XML)
Triple-digit loan-to-value-ratio loans not deductible (financing, FHA, VA, private mortgage insurance)

1/98

Real estate journalism (Robert Allen, nothing down, Los Angeles Times, Watergate, Bob Woodward, , kickbacks, union, Miami Herald, Wayne Markham, Internet, Jane Bryant Quinn, 60 Minutes, 20/20)
Middlemenless deals (Rent.net, Landlording, Leigh Robinson, appraisal, Homeshark, Experian)
New edition of Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors out (Small Business Act of 1996, Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997)
High-tech recorders offices Kerr County, Maricopa County, John Beck, Bexar County, Calaveras County)
Speaking of Kerr County (Bill Mencarow, Paper Source)
Former CPA is serial intermediary embezzler (Jim Giddeon, delayed exchange)
Internet shopping for mortgages saves $300 per month (eloan, Homeshark, quicken.mortgage, keystrokenet, bankrate, homebuynet, loanguide)
The millennium problem
Two more rent-control victories (Valparaiso Associates v. City of Cotati, Pacific Legal Foundation, Berkeley, Jones v. Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, Santa Monica Beach Ltd. v. Superior Court, Massachusetts, New York, public purpose, Fifth Amendment)
Some Omega sprinklers defective
Real estate and zero inflation
Who's #1 in reverse exchanges? (Brandt Nicholson, Lou Weller)
Exchanger caught by IRS on back-dated ID (Dobrich)
A-c and real estate (air-conditioning)
Oops on Cisneros (HUD)

2/98

Risk (Against the Gods, Peter L. Bernstein, time value of money, probability, statistics, Law of Large Numbers, judgment, bell curve, risk preference, regression, decision theory, gambling)
Reverse annuity mortgage problems (Methuselah, declining-term life insurance, HUD, FNMA, Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, hedge)
Income-property mortgages from conduits (FNMA, FHLMC, securitization, James Carville, single-asset entity, sole security, due-on-death clause)
Online check approval (Fair, Isaac)
Office buildings back
CBD back, too
Cotenant tenant ruling (partnership)
Zoning-change expenses must be capitalized (Hustead)
Shopping for a loan being used against you (Fair Isaac)
CPA seal of approval (Bob Baldassari, Internet)
General goods now selling on the Net
Details on $500,000 homeowner exclusion (long-term capital gain, Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997)
Egghead eliminates real estate (Internet)
Shopping centers threatened (Real Estate Research Corporation)
Buying former military homes near closed military bases (Housing Assistance Program)
Resort growth and problems (Aspen, Big Sky)
Listservs (Internet, Brad Inman)
Miscellaneous (disability, Temporary injury, Halperin v. Abacus Technology Corp., Sanders v. Arneson Products, discrimination, Section 8, Franklin Tower One, LLC v. NM)

3/98

Deals that make sense: 14-unit, no-equity foreclosure bargain (Paul Thompson, title search, refinancing, Larry Kaplan, auction)
Risk, Part II (gambling, vigorish, actuarial data)
The spellcasters (guru, boot camp, Bob Bruss, John Schaub, Leigh Robinson, John Beck, George Coats)
Change my address, please
Appreciation since 1980
Dvorak keyboard revisited (computer, Qwerty)
Fierce resistance to e-commerce (Internet)
First-year expensing (Small Business Act of 1996, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990)

4/98

Condo deal teaches many lessons (Leigh Robinson, builder auction, Yahoo, for sale by owner, appraisal, Homeshark, Norman Chan, Neil Gingold, open house)
Diagnosing problems (Kepner, Tregoe, New Rational Manager, leak)
More air-conditioning adventures (Bill Salzman)
Property management college degree (Virginia Tech, MIT, Wisconsin)
'...absolutely nothing to do with real estate' (Paper Source, Bill Mencarow, Robert Allen)
Fair, Isaac changing the world (probability)
Children can play in halls an live in balcony units (discrimination, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing Congress v. Weber)
Only 22% of tenants have insurance
MacInTax and Quicken
$101,000 to settle, no wrongdoing (Mobilehome Parks Report, Tom Kerr)
Used-car evolution
Correction (war, riot insurance, exchange, trust)

5/98

Deals that make sense: Right of redemption bargain (Scott Gaffney, pre-foreclosure, FHA, judgment, Del Dotto)
Bringing