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John T. Reed's Real Estate Investor's Monthly newsletter Web page Real Estate Investor’s Monthly is an 8-page, monthly newsletter aimed at a nationwide audience of individual real estate investors. Subscription prices are 1 year, $125; 2 years, $238. Not available in book stores . Subscribers get 12 or 24 issues depending on whether they buy a one- or two-year suscription. There is no way to access prior issues for subscribers or anyone else other than by purchasing books that have the article in question in them. See the tables of contents of John T. Reed’s various books for those titles. Order form | Real estate investment page | Secure shopping cart JOHN T. REED’S Real Estate Investor’s Monthly Almost every topic has been covered at one time or another. Use the “Find” function under the edit menu of your browser to search the back articles in the chronological list of articles below. Chronological list of articles , The best indication of what you will find in the newsletter. Start at the bottom and work backwards. Also a good review of the history of real estate investing since 1986. In many cases, just reading the article titles will give you ideas which can make you money . Profile of typical subscriber : Net worth, experience, age, sex, education, etc. What subscribers have said Have you done a deal that meets Real Estate Investor's Monthly standards? Sample issue The actual, entire July 1999 issue. (Viewing the sample requires Adobe Acrobat™. You probably already have it. If not, you can download it for free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html .) To send feedback to John T. Reed, click here: johnreed@johntreed.com. Topics include how to: understand new tax laws find financing find deals that make sense deal with lawsuits minimize income taxes protect assets buy real estate at bargain prices use computers and the Internet in real estate avoid environmental liability exchange tax-free increase the value of your real estate minimize expenses pay the minimum interest rate do a lease option correctly understand new laws pertaining to real estate investments Many issues include actual case histories of successful investment strategies. Real Estate Investor's Monthly has been published continuously since February, 1986. In recent years, many people have begun asking if a subscription includes access to all past articles. No, it does not. We publish some past articles into books organized by subject. Real Estate Investor's Monthly covers the following subjects: Financing Conventional 1- to 4-family Conventional income property HUD 1- to 4-family VA 1- to 4-family HUD income property Seller financing Lines of credit Refinancing Other Real Estate Owned by lending institutions as a result of foreclosure Pay down of existing mortgages Best loan-to-value ratio Additional descriptive information to be added later to this page. Order form | Real estate investment books | Secure shopping cart John T. Reed, a.k.a. John Reed, John T Reed, Jack Reed, 342 Bryan Drive, Alamo, CA 94507, 925-820-7262, Email: johnreed@johntreed.com

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Home Equity vs. Auto loan http://www.dinkytown.net -- Financial Calculators http://www.dinkytown.net -- Auto Loan vs. Home Equity Loan Home equity loans often have lower interest rates than auto loans and the interest may be tax deductible. Two good reasons to take a look at home equity loans to finance your automobile purchase. Auto Loan vs. Home Equity Loan RESULTS_MSG. RESULTS_TEXT Auto Loan vs. Home Equity Loan Results   Auto Loan Home Equity Loan Loan amount LOAN_AMOUNT HOME_EQUITY_LOAN_AMOUNT Monthly payment MONTHLY_PAYMENT HOME_EQUITY_MONTHLY_PAYMENT Interest rate INTEREST_RATE HOME_EQUITY_RATE Term TERM months TERM months Income tax savings (Over the term of the loan) $0 HOME_EQUITY_TAX_SAVINGS Total interest paid AUTO_LOAN_TOTAL_INTEREST HOME_EQUITY_TOTAL_INTEREST RESULTS_MSG. Auto Purchase Summary Total purchase price (before tax): AUTO_SALE_PRICE Sales tax*: SALES_TAX   *Currently California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland and Michigan allow no deductions for trade-ins when calculating sales tax. If you live in one of these states make sure to check the box 'No sales tax deduction for trade-in' on the main calculator page. Fees: TITLE_TRANSFER_FEE Total sales price (after tax & fees): TOTAL_SALE_PRICE Total downpayment**: TOTAL_DOWN   **Your total downpayment is calculated as your cash down payment of CASH_DOWN plus your trade-in allowance of TRADE_ALLOWANCE minus the AMOUNT_OWED_ON_TRADE loan balance outstanding on your trade-in vehicle. Loan amount: LOAN_AMOUNT Payment schedule **REPEATING GROUP** Information and interactive calculators are made available to you as self-help tools for your independent use and are not intended to provide investment advice. We can not and do not guarantee their applicability or accuracy in regards to your individual circumstances. All examples are hypothetical and are for illustrative purposes. We encourage you to seek personalized advice from qualified professionals regarding all personal finance issues. " This Financial Calculator requires a Browser with Java(TM) applet Support. If you are seeing this message you will need to download SUN's Java(TM) Plug-in. This can be done simply, and automatically, by clicking the link below: Get the Java(TM) Plug-in! Definitions Term Number of months for the auto loan. Purchase price The amount, before taxes and fees, that you are paying for this auto. Auto loan interest rate (APR) Annual percentage rate for the auto loan. Cash down This is the money you have available to be used for fees and your down payment. Trade allowance Total dollar amount given to you for your auto trade-in. Amount owed on trade Total loan balance still outstanding on the trade-in. Fees Fee charged for title transfer. Also include any other fees that may be due at delivery. Sales tax rate Sales tax percentage rate charged on this purchase. Home equity interest rate (APR) Annual percentage rate for the home equity loan. Home equity closing costs Any additional costs to the home equity loan. This should include any appraiser fees, points paid or other miscellaneous fees. State and Federal tax rates Your state and federal marginal income tax rates. These rates are used to determine the tax savings associated with a home equity loan. No sales tax deduction for trade-in If you live in a state where your sales tax is calculated on your full purchase price, check this box. If this box is unchecked, sales tax is calculated on the purchase price less trade in. Currently California, the District ofColumbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan allow no deductions for trade-ins when calculating sales tax. In addition, Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no sales tax on autos. Information and interactive calculators are made available to you as self-help tools for your independent use and are not intended to provide investment advice. We can not and do not guarantee their applicability or accuracy in regards to your individual circumstances. All examples are hypothetical and are for illustrative purposes. We encourage you to seek personalized advice from qualified professionals regarding all personal finance issues.

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Bush and the Texas Land Grab Bush and the Texas Land Grab July 16, 2002 By Nicholas D. Kristof Editorial Op-Ed To submit a Letter to the Editor: letters@nytimes.com Democrats and media hounds are baying under the wrong tree. The point in President Bush's business career where he took outrageous shortcuts was not at Harken Energy, but rather when he was grabbing land for a new baseball stadium in Arlington for his Texas Rangers baseball team. Mr. Bush broke no laws. Neither do the overwhelming majority of corporate executives. The cloud over the business world comes not so much from lawbreaking as from avaricious bruising of the public interest. The challenge is not catching criminals but injecting public scrutiny into a culture of cronyism in which executives, accountants, regulators and "independent" board members all ooze empathy for each other. When Asia had its economic crisis in 1997-98, Americans properly trashed its "crony capitalism." But we suffer from the same affliction ourselves, and President Bush will not address the issue seriously because cronyism has been his way of life -- the Bushes call it loyalty. I have a stack of court documents from Arlington that portray the "sordid and shocking tale" of the Rangers stadium, as one lawsuit puts it. Essentially, Mr. Bush and the owners' group he led bullied and misled the city into raising taxes to build a $200 million stadium that in effect would be handed over to the Rangers. As part of the deal, the city would even confiscate land from private owners so that the Rangers owners could engage in real estate speculation. "It was a $200 million transfer to Bush and Rangers owners," complains Jim Runzheimer, an anti-tax campaigner in Arlington. William Eastland, a leading Republican in Arlington, is also outraged, and puts it this way: "You're using public money for a private purpose." Mr. Eastland was a Bush delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2000 but still believes that the Bush group behaved shadily and against the public interest. Local voters overwhelmingly approved the deal, so maybe we shouldn't get so exercised by star-struck local officials giving $200 million to rich baseball owners. But the most unseemly part of the deal was that Mr. Bush and the Rangers' owners conspired with city officials to seize private property that would be handed over to the Bush group. "A group of wealthy and influential people threatened and traded their way into an unprecedented takeover of government power and private property in an awesome display of greed and avarice," charges a lawsuit by the landowners, in what strikes me as a fair recitation of events. Another suit charges that the deal "can only be described as astounding, unprecedented and blatantly illegal." A copy of the secret agreement among Mr. Bush and the other Rangers owners shows that they intended to make money not just by running a baseball club but also by land speculation. For example, one owner found a nice chunk of land and sent a memo suggesting that it "sounds like another condemnation candidate if you want to work the site into your master plan," according to the court documents. Another of the owners' internal memos casts a proprietary gaze on a property and declares: "We plan to condemn this land." For a group of financiers to go around town admiring properties and deciding which to seize through the government power of condemnation so that they can acquire free land and speculate on it is appalling. Even Kazakhstan would blush at such practices. Horace Kelton, for example, owned land that the Rangers wanted. The owners got Arlington to seize it, with the city paying less than $1.50 per square foot even though it had previously paid $10 a square foot for other land nearby. "It was an extremely low price, and that's why we had a court case that lasted seven years," Mr. Kelton recalled. Eventually, his family got $11 a square foot. In fairness, Mr. Bush was simply being a hard-nosed businessman. He did a great job leading the owners' group, and it's hard to take seriously the caricature of him as unintelligent when he led the Rangers so lucratively. Indeed, his $14 million profit on the Rangers financed his entry into politics. But it's also a sordid tale of cronyism, of misuse of power, of cozy backroom money-grubbing -- a more pressing threat to American business than outright criminality. LINK to source

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