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Real Estate Investing - Why You Should Convert Houses Into Private ALFs?

Answer: For the Financial Security and Piece of Mind!

You got into real estate to make a lot of money, and the piece

of mind it brings - in case you forgot during these economic challenging times.

Cashflow is extremely important in buying real estate for passive income. If your current cashflow is bleak then how do you expect to pay your real estate obligations as taxes, insurance and make your mortgage payment? Everybody is aware of what happens to you if fall behind on your mortgage payment. And yes, it happens to real estate investors every single day!

Click Here! to learn strategies on buying and renting out your ALF Houses. ALF Housing is a BIG money maker for us real estate investors.

It’s extremely important for you to have passive income as a successful real estate investor. Passive income pays all your real estate obligations. ALF is a strategy that fills a need in our aging population world today.

What criteria does a house need to turn into an ALF?

Do you have a nice place located in a nice quiet residential neighborhood? If you do, you may be able to rent out EACH bedroom for $4,0000 a month. California is a great area to use this strategy. With the flood of retirees any area will work for this strategy. Remember, you are filling a need. ALF’s housing is a growing trend and will only get stronger in the next year.

If the bedrooms are big enough, and your state allows it, you may be

able to put two people in one room for a total of $8000 per month

per bedroom.

Yes, that’s right, $8000 per month, per bedroom. If you have a five

bedroom house, that’s $40,000 per month, every month.

Click Here! to learn more strategies on transforming your non-performing asset into a Money Making Machine that fills a Void in todays marketplace.   Fill the void and become rich off it.

There are several more reasons to convert your empty or non- performing

rentals into ALFs.

· People who live in ALF and call them home are less likely to trash the place.

· They’re also less likely to spend your rent money on a new t.v or car.

· You won’t get a phone call from the neighbors complaining the cops are next door again.

· ALF residents can’t just pick up and move

· ALF residents pastime is reading books, knitting or playing cards (NO WILD PARTIES!)

No more worries about how you are going to pay your mortgage payment since the other tenants are covering the cost until you fill the vacant ALF unit. ALF tenants are elderly individuals concerned about living in a quiet peaceful house who respect their living quarters vs. NOT caring as many tenants.

Cashflow Cindy

P.S. With the babyboomers retiring in large volumes this is the perfect living arrangements. We are providing them a great place to live with companionship.  Click Here! If you don’t believe me, ask a retired person if they miss people?

Real Estate Investing - Is this the end of Malls?

General Growth Properties Files for Bankruptcy
April 16, 2009, 2:34 AM

Update | 6:50 a.m. General Growth Properties, one of the largest mall operators in the nation, filed for bankruptcy early Thursday morning in one of the biggest commercial real estate collapses in United States history.

Despite bargaining for months with its creditors, General Growth faced dwindling options for handling its more than $25 billion in debt, largely in the form of short-term mortgages that will come due by next year. The company has been severely wounded by the trouble in the financial markets, which has wreaked havoc on its ability to refinance that debt.

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The filing by the Chicago-based company, made in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan, included most of the company’s malls, which will continue to operate. General Growth’s reorganization efforts will likely focus on selling off properties. It has already suspended its stock dividend, cut its workforce by 20 percent and stopped virtually all new development. (Read the filing after the jump.)

“Our operational model is sound,” Thomas H. Nolan Jr., the company’s president and chief operating officer, said on a conference call early Thursday morning, citing “the unprecedented disruption in the real estate financing markets and the need to extend maturing debt” as the reason the company filed.

“We made extensive efforts to modify existing maturing debt outside of bankruptcy,” he added.

What began as a crisis in residential real estate has since seeped into the commercial real estate market, as landlords of retail and office space face rising numbers of vacancies. Analysts expect many of these companies to struggle as the recession forces steep cuts in consumer spending and employment rolls.

As the second-biggest operator of malls in the nation, behind only the Simon Property Group, General Growth’s troubles have been closely watched by the real estate industry for months. Founded in 1954 and expanded through a series of acquisitions — topped by a $12.6 billion deal for the Rouse Company in 2004 — the company has a huge retail presence that has served as a barometer for the troubles bedeviling the American retail market.

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As more stores have closed, mall vacancies are at their highest point in almost a decade, according to Reis, a research company, which said the vacancy rate at the end of 2008 was 7.1 percent, compared with 5.8 percent at the end of 2007.

That has left many of the roughly 1,500 malls in the United States groping for a solution — any solution — to their woes. Some have converted retail space into office space. Others have drastically lowered rents for prized tenants, agreeing to cut deals to keep revenue flowing. Some have simply gone dark.

Shares in General Growth, which closed on Wednesday at $1.05, have fallen 97 percent over the past 12 months.

General Growth’s filing also marks a humbling of the Bucksbaum family, which made a family grocery business in Marshalltown, Iowa, into a powerhouse of retail shopping in the Midwest. The family still holds about a 25 percent stake in the company, and John Bucksbaum, an avid cyclist, remains its chairman after having served as its chief executive.

Few analysts dispute the quality of General Growth’s malls, which include the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Water Tower Place in Chicago and the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian in Las Vegas. But its undoing was the mounting pile of short-term mortgages the operator used to expand. That financing strategy was devised by its longtime chief financial officer, Bernard Freibaum, who was dismissed last October.

Since then, the mall owner has pleaded with holders of $2.25 billion in bonds to hold off on demanding payment as it sought to reorganize its debt outside of a bankruptcy filing. But bondholders grew increasingly impatient as bond maturities continued to mount and denied General Growth an abstention from payments for the rest of the year.

The company said in its statement that it had secured a commitment for $375 million in bankruptcy financing from Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund that owns more than 25 percent of the company through its holdings of shares and swap contracts. That financing must be approved by a bankruptcy court judge.

William A. Ackman, the head of Pershing Square, told Bloomberg Television last month that he foresaw an “imminent” bankruptcy filing by the company.

Among the companies listed as General Growth’s 100 largest unsecured creditors are Eurohypo, a unit of Germany’s Commerzbank that represents holders of $2.6 billion worth of loans; Wilmington Trust and the Bank of New York Mellon, representing several classes of bonds; casinos including Mandalay Bay and the Venetian; and an assortment of retailers like Sephora, Guess, Borders and Macys.

In its bankruptcy filing, General Growth said that it sought permission to retain a bevy of advisers, including the investment bank Miller Buckfire, the turnaround consulting firm AlixPartners and the law firms Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Kirkland & Ellis. The document was signed by Marcia L. Goldstein, the chairwoman of Weil’s well-known bankruptcy practice.

–Michael J. de la Merced

Cashflow Cindy (hope this article clicked in your brain to invest in NEW real estate trends)

P.S.  ALF’s Housing is the New Trend with our huge segment of the market retiring.   You need to jump on the band wagon now! Buy this report to learn WHY and HOW;  read it and go do it!  If not, you will be investing in old news as shopping malls….    http://www.easyalf.org/?hop=b07845

The best part is the cost is minimal compared to the billionaires it cost to buy a vacant shopping mall!

Real Estate Investing – Transform Your Rental Houses into ALF (Assisted Living Facility)

In order to be a successful real estate investor you need to change with the times or trends. With the aging baby boom population the health care industry is exploding and continues to grow daily.   Look in your newspaper or on http://www.indeed.com/ and see for yourself how many health care jobs are available.   (By the way; if you are looking for a job this is a great site to find one!)

I met a gale who lives in California at a real estate seminar in Minnesota a couple of months ago. She talked about how she turned her single family house into an ALF (Assisted Living Facility) House.  She receives $4,000 per bedroom vs renting out the whole house for $4,000.  With 4 bedrooms x $4,000= $16,000 a month.      Click Here! to learn how.

My partner and I found a house three years ago that fit this bill perfectly here in WI. The seller was willing to sell the house for balance of his note. $50K in equity in the property and I didn’t know enough about the ALF houses at that time to move ahead and buy the property so we passed on it.

However, today I am taking the ALF Housing seriously since the demand is growing and my partner and I are ready to move into ALF housing since demand is growing.

Great resource  http://www.easyalf.org/?hop=b07845

Advantages in providing housing with Alf housing is elderly respect property so only would incur cost of normal wear and tear.

• Respect of Property
• No Wild Parties
• Higher Rents
• $1,000 - $4,000 per bedroom (depending upon area of country)
• No Rent Collecting
• retirees need companionship/most are lonely

This is an unfamiliar area for me however my partner and I are researching it and are planning on moving into the ALF Housing industry.   I am in the process of writing down the criteria of the house that meets my need.    Once I have my list complete then all I need to do is go out and find the deal/house.   And I am in the ALF (Assisted Living Facility) housing industry.

Cashflow Cindy

P.S.  Here is a great resource http://www.easyalf.org/?hop=b07845
I found if you are interested in providing ALF (Assisted Living Facility) housing.