A real estate transaction is a complicated process involving a variety of people that you interact with directly and indirectly. For a typical non-investor, no real thought is given beyond whether or not they like the realtor they are working with. If they like the realtor, they tend to follow recommendations for the other services […]

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You are driving through your prospecting area for ugly houses and you come across one that looks promising. Through whatever means, you create an appointment to look through the house to see what work needs to be done. You decide it is a property you want […]

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A common method of investing in real estate is doing a flip. For the purposes of this article, there are basically two types of flips. You can buy a house wholesale and immediately flip it to another investor for a small profit. Or you can rehab a house that you purchased cheaply and sell it […]

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When it comes right down to it, you are responsible for your success or failure as a real estate investor. You either make good decisions and earn a profit or bad decisions and take a loss. And hopefully learn from the experience.
If you speak with any successful real estate investor, chances are good they can […]

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If you’ve invested any amount of time in real estate investing, you know that there are a variety of learning aids available. Some of them are very low cost or even free. And others can require an investment of $1000 or more.
Low cost and free resources include books at your local bookstore or your favorite […]

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As an investor, there comes a time in the lifecycle of every property when it is time to sell it. Depending on the deal, this could be a wholesale flip to another investor or a sale to a retail customer.
There are basically three ways to sell your retail property. You can do it as a […]

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As a real estate investor, you always hear that foreclosures are a great place to get good investment properties at bargain prices. Sometimes that it true - but like all deals, you must do your homework first.
In this article, we will examine the three stages of foreclosures and what they mean to you as an […]

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From time to time, a real estate investment guru will talk about using credit cards to either fully fund a real estate purchase or as a down payment.
Does that make sense?
The short answer is – it depends. Let’s take a look at a few factors that can make credit cards as a funding source […]

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It is May 14, 2007 and postal rates have increased again. Unlike postal rate increases that we have been exposed to in the past, this one is entirely different.
Post postal rates have been straight across the board increases for standard, well known services. This new one however… it is an across the board increase AND […]

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Suppose there was a way to literally increase your lead stream by 100% with no cost to you? And suppose that method often gave you an "introduction" so you are not making cold calls to these new leads? Would that interest you? Do you think you could do more real estate deals with these additional […]

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