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1. Steps For Beginners to Ensure Real Estate Investing Success
   by: Tom Bukacek

   The 5 steps to making real estate investing successful are finding, analyzing, acquiring, tracking, and promoting properties. Also key to new investors is the ability to build your team through ne...

2. The Basics of Short Sales for Beginners
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Short sales are generally used when the seller is both behind on payments and owes more than the property is worth. They are best used to create equity where otherwise equity does not exist.

3. The Basics of Wholesaling for Beginners
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Here is how it works: An investor finds a property well below its market value, gets the property under contract, and then assigns or sells the CONTRACT to another investor or buyer to complete the...

4. Ultimate No Money No Credit Strategy - Subject to...
   by: Tom Bukacek

   But for the sake of this article, the use of the term ‘subject to’ is in relation to purchasing a property "subject to the sellers existing mortgage remaining in place.” This phrase means that at c...

5. Understanding Value in Multi-Family Units
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Owning an apartment complex is not as difficult as it may seem. Like any other discipline, successful investing in multi-family dwellings can be learned and private capital can be raised to acquir...

6. What is Seller Financing in Real Estate Investing?
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Seller financing is when the owner takes a second note, or even finances the entire purchase of the property in order to assist the seller in financing a real estate transaction.

7. The 7 Steps to Successful Negotiations for Real Estate Investors
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Negotiations is not a science, rather it is an art and the degree of success most often depends on the negotiator's knowledge and application of various tips, strategies, and tactics. The purpose ...

8. Bird Dogging - An Ideal Way for New Investors to Get Started in Real Estate
   by: Tom Bukacek

   Understandably, many people who realize that real estate is the way to build wealth don’t necessarily want to invest the time and effort into an industry that they may not like. So what is the bes...

9. 5 Simple, Common, & Preventable Mistakes Made by New Investors
   by: Tom Bukacek

   As Peter Drucker stated about being a successful entrepreneur, “It's not magic, it’s not mysterious, and it has nothing to do with the genes. It's a discipline. And, like any discipline, it can b...

10. 7 Common Options for Homeowners Facing Foreclosure
    by: Tom Bukacek

    Despite the media seemingly blaming a subprime loan program that affected 3-5% of the population for our foreclosure woes, the reality is that the combination of job loss and dropping home values h...