Amortization to Reg Z Peter Rosenthal This Real Estate publication is the first outline of the course being presented today. It is expected that this course and outline will change slightly from time to time and any suggestions or criticisms are encouraged. Several of the following pages are intended as reference material and should be valuable […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company April 2001 In the last six months, I have devoted two columns to real estate fraud. After each article I’ve received several calls and/or letters soliciting my advice on current ongoing frauds or readers indicating “that’s was happened to me”. After my last column on the subject […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company September, 1992 Q: My husband is out of work and we are having trouble making our house payments. We recently received a Notice of Default, indicating that our house would soon go into foreclosure. Right after that, we received a phone call from someone offering to lend […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company April 6, 1991 A recent column was devoted to my caution against lending money to a friend or relative. David Paul of Re/Max Realtors (Toluca Lake) sent me a poem that his dad gave him several years ago. It sums up, in a few sentences, my whole […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company March 2000 Recently I wrote a less-than-complimentary article about the excessively high interest rate charged by counties on unpaid property taxes.  The thrust of that column was that 18% interest rates could easily snowball into an insurmountable amount, with the eventual loss of your house or vacation […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company QUESTION:  We are buying a new house and have been advised to keep our old house as a real estate investment.  We would rent the house for approximately the amount of our mortgage payment.  (1)Do you feel this is a smart idea; and (2)What can you tell […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company A contractor I know has rented a two car garage for approximately six months.  The garage is used for storage and it took a lot of time to load materials into the garage.  Now, after only six months, the owner has informed my contractor acquaintance that they […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company Earlier this week I had to intercede on behalf of a column reader in a silly situation.  This involved a little ignorance and a lot of “lack of communication”.  It appears this person had rented a house some years ago and thought she had paid the “last […]

By PETER ROSENTHAL, President V.I.P. Trust Deed Company Feb. 2000 I have touched on this subject before in a past column, however this subject is so important that I am revisiting it.  If you are or will be a real estate buyer, real estate seller, real estate broker, agent or appraiser, or if you are […]