Real Estate Investing

0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 12:05 pm.

The Small Rental Assistance Program, SRAP, was designed by the Mississippi Development Authority, MDA, to assist coastal MS in disaster recovery. The SRAP program provided property owners forgivable loans up to $40,000 per unit for properties utilized in a rental capacity for 5 consecutive years from the SRAP “loan” date. To revisit the interesting history [...]

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1 Comment. Posted by Andries on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 2:23 pm.

Belvedere Place is Gulfport Mississippi’s newest development. Homes for sale in Belvedere Places start at $134,300 and go up to $153,500. Belvedere Place is the current leader in price & quality for new construction homes for sale in Gulfport MS. SEE UPDATE ON BELVEDERE PLACE, GULFPORT, MS Belvedere Place is located just off of Highway [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 5:49 pm.

Why look for real estate in south MS? That question is easy to answer, in fact there are multiple answers including amazing tax benefits such as Go Zone Accelerated Depreciation. South MS could be the best real estate emerging market in the U.S. It’s definitely got everything you would look for from a research perspective. [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 12:44 pm.

Time continues to wind down for Go Zone investing here on the MS Coast. There are still many great Go Zone opportunities available and new construction options are still viable. We have buildable lots and Go Zone qualifying homes for sale in Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis & Diamondhead. [...]

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1 Comment. Posted by Andries on Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:17 pm.

The Gulf Opportunity Zone Act or “Go Zone” is set to expire by the end of this year in Hancock, Harrison, & Jackson counties in south Mississippi. The bonus depreciation and tax shelters of the Go Zone are outstanding opportunities to recapture taxes paid over the last 5 years! While the Go Zone Act is [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 9:14 pm.

Beachfront or beach view lots and homes for sale on the MS coast have reached rock-bottom prices! In the area of Long Beach and Pass Christian MS there are currently 168 near beach lots listed on the MLS (SEARCH MLS) market for sale ranging from $25,000 up to $6,700,000. The information contained in this post [...]

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1 Comment. Posted by Damion on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 10:27 pm.

Haley Barbour signed the tourism bill which will allow significant tax incentives to Casinos which build non-gaming attractions/amenities such as hotels, theme parks, convention centers or other venues that would give tourists more to do when visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The new bill will create many more opportunities for our area, both in recreation, [...]

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1 Comment. Posted by Andries on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm.

The Go Zone Investment opportunity in Biloxi and other South MS cities is very real and offers benefits unheard of in the real estate investment community. However, as with any other investment opportunity, it is critical to work with reputable and established representatives who live locally and have good business and communication practices. The Go [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 11:20 pm.

Effective March 1, 2009, which also happens to be my daughter Trinity’s second birthday, Fannie Mae will start, once again, financing up to 10 properties for investors – one heck of a birthday present if you ask me. Maybe I will go buy her an investment property Fannie Mae has decided to do this to [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:42 pm.

Attention Gulfport and MS Coast affordable new home seekers!  For those searching for a new affordable construction solution, there are only a few home builders in the Gulfport and MS Coast area to consider.  It is not easy to decide which one to choose when it comes to price vs. value unless you have access to homes they have previously built. [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Monday, February 2, 2009 at 8:36 am.

Whenever you sell business or investment property and you have a gain, you generally have to pay tax on the gain at the time of sale. However, the tax code provides an exception and allows you to postpone paying tax on the gain if you reinvest the proceeds in similar property as part of a [...]

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1 Comment. Posted by Andries on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 2:51 pm.

Investment Realtors® for the Biloxi MS “Vegas on the Beach” area will prove their worth over the next several years as the coast is reborn as the shiniest new penny in the country. Andries Butler & Damion Flynn are Biloxi MS Investment Realtors that do more than pitch properties. As a team they investigate all [...]

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5 Comments. Posted by Damion on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 1:09 pm.

The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) Small Rental Assistance Program (SRAP) Round 2 applicants got a startling letter yesterday (See Here – opens in new window). The letter basically was sent to all Option D applicants, which encompassed anyone who bought new construction as a means of receiving the forgivable loan from the MDA. The SRAP [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 12:47 pm.

The “GO-ZONE”, or Gulf Opportunity Zone, is a tax credit act of 2005 that was implemented by President Bush after the extremely active hurricane season of 2005 which brought us storms like Katrina and Rita. The original act was through 2008 but was extended to 2010 for the Mississippi Coast. The act allows for bonus, [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 12:32 am.

South Mississippi is home to to more than 20 golf courses! Many of these courses have been designed by well known course developers such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Davis Love III, Mark McCumber, Tom Fazio, Jerry Pate, and Donald Ross. The Grand Bear, owned and operated by MGM, and Fallen Oak, a semi-private subdivision [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 12:25 am.

South MS real estate investments are a great investment because of the many economic engines that have kept real estate prices steady in today’s national economic slowdown. This factor alone is evidence of the investment opportunity in a “Vegas on the Beach” tourism hot spot. South MS is a great place not only for tourists, [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 4:47 pm.

Hurricanes are a fact of life when you live in a southern Mississippi county on the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters say that 2009 can yield a higher than normal activity for hurricanes due to higher water temperatures and may include up to 14 named storms. So what does this mean to you and why am [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 3:32 pm.

Orleans place is a planned community of New Orleans style duplexes located in the Ocean Springs/St. Martin Mississippi area. The community will include an Olympic size swimming pool, on-site daycare facilities and walking trails. Duplexes are investment incentive rich and are Go-Zone and SRAP eligible. Go-Zone incentives allow 50% accelerated depreciation and SRAP incentives are [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Andries on Monday, December 1, 2008 at 7:54 pm.

This is a copy of a recent press piece done on Harrison County that quoted us: Harrison County is home to a diversified and vibrant coastal economy here in south Mississippi. The county itself is located centrally on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and includes 27 miles of white sand beach from Pass Christian to Biloxi. [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 12:49 am.

If you are not familiar with the SRAP (Small Rental Assistance Program) offer on the Mississippi Coast, it would be a good time to read more about it. The Small Rental Assistance Program is designed to help address the affordable housing issue on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and awards up to $40,000 per door to [...]

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2 Comments. Posted by Damion on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:33 am.

The Mississippi Development Authority’s Small Rental Assistance Program (SRAP for short) round 2 is here and applications are being processed. For anyone wanting to take advantage of this program, you need to do it BEFORE December 15th 2008. SRAP round 2 started on October 15th 2008 and offers some of the nicest incentives to put [...]

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0 Comments. Posted by Damion on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 12:01 am.

I get numerous calls every week from new real estate investors, most of which just read a book or watched a DVD that they bought off a late night infomercial and the first thing they say is that they want me to help them find investment properties. Me: Great – so what are you looking [...]

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