Zillow Blog – The Ins and Outs of Homeowner’s Insurance

By Leonard Baron – author of Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101

This is a good article to explain about homeowners insurance and what it does. One item to note is that the insurance covers your property but it also covers liability issues, like if you get sued because your dog bites someone. For those of you who are renters, renters insurance covers many of these same issues like if your personal property gets damaged or you get sued. You can see more about Renter’s coverage at RentersInsurance.com – where I’ve blogged on many of the vital issues and provided coverage advice for you to consider. Both types of insurance are very inexpensive for the coverage you get! Enjoy!

Click here to see the article here on Zillow

The Ins and Outs of Homeowner’s Insurance

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Leonard Baron Zillow Articles

Leonard Baron, MBA, CPA, is a San Diego State University Lecturer, a Zillow Blogger, the author of several books including “Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101 – A Smarter Way to Buy Real Estate”, and loves kicking the tires of a good piece of dirt! See more atProfessorBaron.com.

Will I Really Get A Tax Break When I Buy A Home?

Hi Everyone,

I wrote another post for RentersInsurance.com that discusses how the average American couple buying a US average priced home of around $200,000 really has few tax benefits from homeownership. Most of the mortgage interest deductions and property tax deductions that create federal income tax savings go to people buying homes that cost $300,000 or more. The more expensive the house and the bigger the mortgage, the more tax benefits an owner will have. Read on, thanks, and have a great day. Leonard

Will I Really Get A Tax Break When I Buy A Home?

By Leonard Baron

Author of Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101 – at ProfessorBaron.com

Do You Understand Income Tax Considerations of Rental Properties?

Here’s another good one on taxes and rental properties! I just love these! Please pass them around to people interested in real estate who want to learn a great framework for making smart real estate decisions!

By Leonard Baron -

Author of Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101 – at ProfessorBaron.com

Here it is on Zillow! click here

Should You Buy a House with Seller Financing?

Another Zillow posted blog…..by Leonard Baron

Author of Real Estate Ownership, Investment and Due Diligence 101 – at ProfessorBaron.com

Should You Buy a House with Seller Financing?

So what’s the scoop on seller financing?

Is this a good deal for a buyer?

Should you even consider it?

You of course need to make up your own decision based on your situation…..but generally not a good chance it will be a good idea. Want to find out why…..read on to find out!

http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-09-13/should-you-buy-a-house-with-seller-financing/

Is Now a Good Time to Buy Real Estate?

Hi All!

Ok, I just wrote an authoritative piece (that’s just my opinion of course!) on items and issues, comments and concerns, etc. on topics you should consider if you are going to buy real estate now….or at any point in the future. It’s just a list of thoughts and I hope you will find it worthwhile to read. Any comments or advice back my way is appreciated!

Is Now a Good Time to Buy Real Estate?

People always ask, “Is it a good time to buy real estate?” The answer is always, “Yes, but it depends.” In order to make that determination for you, we first must understand the three most important words in real estate:

Long-Term Ownership

To see the rest click here: Thanks!: And don’t forget, if you find it useful to “Like” or “Tweet” it out on Zillow! Now Thanks!

http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-08-25/is-now-a-good-time-to-buy-real-estate/

Risks of Buying into an HOA Community – Buyer Beware!

Another good one on Zillow for all you folks who want to understand the pain involved in doing the proper amount of research and analysis to better protect yourself when you are buying real estate in a common interest development – aka HOA.

Researching an HOA is a time consuming process and very few buyers have any idea what they should be looking into when purchasing. Yet your time and effort is worth it as it is your money at risk!

To learn more, read here:

http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-08-19/risks-of-buying-into-an-hoa-community-–-buyer-beware/

Investing in Real Estate – What is a “Good Deal?”

Ok, so I drafted up how to measure a good real estate investment deal and make it easy to understand. I submitted it to my “handler” at Zillow and Voila…it appeared.

Investing in Real Estate – What is a “Good Deal?”

Let’s look at a tried and true way to measure rental property investment returns and what we as buyers should be looking for in our purchases. Total investment returns in real estate are really comprised of two pieces: operating positive cash flows and long-term appreciation. In today’s world, even though it probably will come, we cannot count upon and should not consider long term appreciation. That leaves positive operating cash flows as our primary source of investment return. Let’s call this: “earning money the old fashioned way.”

You can find the rest herein to enjoy!

http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-08-08/investing-in-real-estate-what-is-a-good-deal/