On Tuesday night, January 4th, Marq Cobb who leads the sales floor at MemphisInvest.com, held a quick 45 minute Webinar recapping three great success stories from investors in 2010.  Each defined success in their own way and each took advantage of the services provided by our years of experience in the Memphis investment real estate market.  The stories shared were simply inspiring!

Leslie Williams
www.MemphisInvest.com, Marketing & Customer Service

Yet another Holiday season has come and gone.  Months of shopping for those perfect gifts and spending time with family that you love (or the relatives you can only tolerate one time a year).  Either way, it’s always memorable in some way to everyone.  Here at MemphisInvest.com the years are filled with busy office days and event travels.  2010 was no different, if anything one of the busiest years.  Even with the mayhem of wrapping up the year and  moving full steam ahead into 2011, we never forget that it’s also the time a year when giving back is most important.

Yahoo re-published a story today on the 20 year effect of real estate values in 25 major metropolitan areas around the U.S.  I will give everyone one guess as to the outcome!  For real estate investors who bought discount properties in the early nineties, they have seen huge increases in value, but more importantly, many have seen tenants pay off their notes and today are earning monthly cash flow on free and clear properties!  At MemphisInvest.com we have been investing and assisting others to invest in not only a great market, but also with a great long term strategy.  After all, real estate investing is still one of the best bets for building long term wealth.

Swedish appliance maker Electrolux announced a deal this week with Memphis City and Shelby County leaders to build a 700,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Memphis that will be fully operational by 2012.  The new facility will employ 1,200 workers and it's suppliers and offshoot companies will add an addtional 2,000 jobs to the Memphis area.  For Memphis real estate investors, news like this is music to our ears.

It is funny sometimes to get the reactions of investors when they hear me talk about diversification in Memphis real estate because they are not used to hearing those terms come from real estate investing companies.  Maybe from professional stock brokers or stodgy old men in black suits discussing the economy in terms most of us would never use.  But in truth, diversification in your real estate portfolio is very important and can often mitigate the over all risk you take as an investor.

I spent some time in Colorado in the early 2000's and was pretty active in the real estate market at the time.  One of the comments that we regularly heard was that "there is no more land being manufactured".  Being land locked by the mountains, real estate was at a premium and investing was considered to be a sound long term investment.  

Memphis Invest was in Dallas, TX. on November 20th and found a room full of investors ready to take action!  After announcing that Memphis Invest and Fortune Builders would be in Dallas for a one-day event at the Embassy Suites in Grapevine, the room quickly filled up with 72 investors confirming their seats and getting ready to learn about Memphis real estate investing.