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You bought your first rental now what should you expect?

First, I suggest taking a few minutes to celebrate your success as most people just talk about investing or buying rentals and never take action. You signed on the dotted line and risked at least some capital so you should celebrate a little …. Ok that is enough celebrating it is time to get to work at runni...

Notes and Tapes Available

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Financing Strategies for Investors by Bill Matz

Please join us for our monthly meeting as we welcome guest speaker, William Matz who will discuss about “Financing Strategies for Investors”.

Bill will be talking about:

Purchase Financing: flip or hold, fixing, various loan pro...

Why should you care about the type of Economic Recovery

As real estate investors it is very important for us to watch the overall economy. The talking heads on TV highlight 4 popular options and each of them offer different potential outcomes for the new real estate investor. I thought we should take minute and review each of them and then...

Bus tours prove very successful for investors looking to Invest in Memphis

It's been a heck of a week around the offices of MemphisInvest.com. We're coming off a wildly successful bus tour where we hosted hosted 76 investors over two days. Over 50 of those investors traveled here to spend two days with Memphis Invest .com learning about Memphis In...

Increase Your Lease/Option Buyers Ability

For any investor who focuses on using Lease/Option as a means to sell their property, having the tenant/buyer actually purchase the property seems to be of concern.

Regardless is if you purchased the house with No Money Down or own the house outright, financed or converting your rental property into a sale. Converting the tenant/buyer into an actual buyer is not as hard as...

Diary of a creative investment deal

I'm going to blog the details of a deal from start to finish and layout all the numbers throughout the deal. I will keep the actuall address and name of seller private. The seller has given me permission to do this, however I feel it's important to keep the seller protected as going through this as a seller can be mentally and emotionally straining.

Today I spoke with the seller which we'll call BOB about his property we'l...

We were invited to speak at our local REIA meeting

Max Cash Flow Now: We were invited to speak at our local REIA meeting about increasing rental property income, in front of a small group of investors. The room was packed beyond expected capacity and the number of investors interested in the topics for the evening numbered 220.

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Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension

The congress has extended and expanded the 2009 home buyer tax credit. This is great news for buyers who have been on the fence about buying a home. The new home buyer tax credit allows for home ...

Private & Institutional Principal Investor Partners...

Real Estate Buyers Group, Commercial Real Estate Investors Group and Business Note Buyers Group are the note purchasing divisions of National Real Estate Buyers & Associates, Inc... a national real estate investment, financial services and publishing company.

Although we purc...

Selling Part of a Note...

It is Possible to Take an Advance From Your Note...

It is important for those who hold a Cash Flow to understand the possibilities available if cash is needed. There may be several different reasons for a person to pull money out of a real esate note. There are just as many possible ways to structure it...

Attract More High Net Worth Clients with Abbondanza! -the Abundant State of Mind

The most successful luxury real estate marketing professionals have understood and acquired a mindset that matches the general state of mind of their typical clients. As a result, they attract more high n...

Social Networking Etiquette: Mind Your Manners to Grow Your Business

Social media marketing is hotter than a firecracker, and growing hotter every day as online entrepreneurs realize just how effective this particular marketing technique can be. If you aren’t using social media marketing---you should be.&...

How to Market Yourself and Your Business with BiggerPockets

BiggerPockets is not only a community for sharing knowledge, for networking, and making deals, but it is also a marketing platform for people in the real estate space.

Here are several easy ways to use BiggerPockets to market yourself and your business:

Create a Detailed, Professional Profile with Photo - BiggerPockets profiles have been designed ...

How to FAIL at Social Networking

I just got a request to close the account of a member here on BiggerPockets. While this doesn't happen very often, when it does, there is always a common theme. In EVERY case, the person was unsatisfied in some way with the results of their networking. The same goes for today. This person had three posts on the site, all of which were solicitations in a group, seeking buyers...