Dan J. Harkey

Master Educator | Business & Finance Consultant | Mentor

Real Estate-Technical

Technical Real Estate Insight on the Issues that Move Value—Legally, Operationally, and Financially

Legal issues, valuation realities, operational pitfalls, and market shifts—explained in plain English.

Real estate isn’t just “location, location, location.” It’s contracts, compliance, conditions, valuation, and the little details that turn good deals into expensive lessons. My articles cover technical and legal issues, ownership and operations across residential and commercial property, and the market trends reshaping what works (and what doesn’t). If it affects risk, value, or performance, it belongs here.

Most deals don’t fail on the headline numbers—they fail in the details: condition, documentation, liability, tenant/legal exposure, and assumptions that don’t survive due diligence. I write about real estate the way it behaves, benefits, detriments, valuation methods, and the shifting landscape that changes your risk overnight.

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Lien Priority: Recording Documents And Instruments

How The System Of Public Notice Recordation Works

Eliminate Time-Wasters: In Your Sales Career

Focus On Gaining Efficiencies

Fuzzy Math In Income Producing Real Estate

Sometimes The Income Stream Is Exaggurated

Trust Deed and Mortgage Investments:

An Investment Strategy

Private Money Credit Approvals: Best Practices

Is An Industry Standards Process

Loan Brokers and Agents:

Have a Fiduciary Relationship With their Clients

Financial Services Providers: Networking

Are A Valuable Referral Source For Private Money Lenders

McMansion Blues:

Decision To Move Down Into A Smaller Home

Private Money, Hard Money, Loan Originations

Best Practices

Strategies for Successful Loan Closings

Turn a Planned Strategy into an Action Habit

Speed Of Private/Hard Money: The Pivot

Private Money Lenders Can Close Loans Super Fast

Lending On Environmentally Challenged Properties

Look For Solutions Through Midigation

Defrauding The Lender: A Borrower And Their Insurance Agent--

The Pretended That The Policy Was Effective When The Insurance Company Declined Coverage

Accidentally Building on Your Neighbor's Property

Terrible mistake Full Of Stress and Financial Misallocation

Two or More Successor Trustees: Successor Trustees are Hostile Toward Each Other When There Is Unearned Money To Distribute.

One Wants To Protect Momma, and the Other Wants The Cash Now

Cross Collateralization: and Cross Default Provisions In Loan Documents

Asking For Additional Protective Equity

Subordination And Inter-Creditor Agreements

This Document Protects Both Parties

Financial Elder Abuse in Real Estate Lending

We Must All Guard Against Financial Elder Abuse

The Borrower Objected to Paying for Adequate Property Insurance

Stupid Is As Stupid Does, As Forrest Gump Stated

Land Parcels Containing Manufactured Homes

A Great Life Style for much Less Money and Off the Social Grid