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By Mrinal-Dutta
Recently organized a survey over the real estate is forecasting a minor decline in home sales for 2006, largely due to an increase in interest rates.

It's obvious that buyers are starting to gather by the sidelines and homes sales should slide by about five percent. But that's nothing to panic about, Evens continue, Keep in mind that housing sales have reached new records every year for the past five years. Also, home prices are still expected to rise.

You’ve found the home you want to grow old in and the location is good, the neighbors are great, and the price was just right. A little paint in a few rooms, wallpaper there, new flooring in this room, granite in that room, a fixture here a fixture there. Finally you are satisfied with your now remodeled home.

Real estate investing tips tend to be a bit vague, like "invest in the right location," or "make sure the numbers work." Actually, tips like these are important principles to remember.

Run the numbers. It is about the numbers, and if it is income property, it's about one number in particular: cash flow. Whatever the local formulas are, whether gross rent multipliers or capitalization rates or

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