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In a continuing effort to help real estate investors and agents learn how to calculate the common rates of return for rental income properties, we have added an additional three more online calculators to our ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software website. These are 100% FREE to use. Simply go to our website at www.proapod.com and click the Learning Center in the left menu. The from the Learning Center scroll down to Free Online Calculators and select the calculation you would like to make.

There’s no doubt about it. Technology has totally revolutionized how real estate agents conduct their businesses. Remember back just a few years ago when agents had to rely on just the telephone and postal service to communicate with customers? And where our best form of exposure was the local newspaper or yellow pages?

According to an article recently published by the National Real Estate Investor, the apartment rental market appears to have bottomed out and multifamily property appears to be on the cusp of recovery. Obviously this is good news for any of us associated with investment real estate but perhaps a sign that rental property pricing and transaction activity will rise and the window of opportunity for landing good multifamily property deals may close soon.

I recently opened an email sent by a friend on FaceBook and as a result got a virus that wiped out my entire hard drive.

I just wanted to mention that I do post articles on my ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software website. You will find the list at List of Articles.

Despite the fact that housing prices are said to have risen more than 3% May, is it true that they’ll soon start to fall? According to an article written by Les Christie for CNNMoney.com they are, and the author sites three main reasons for the reversal: “a coming flood of foreclosures, rising interest rates and the eventual end of the tax credits”.