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Details of Repairs Needed: Needs work. Has hardwood floors, but almost everything needs repair other than new roof.
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Contact: Nathan Guilford
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Almost Here: BiggerPockets Blogs
In last week's newsletter, we told you that we'd be launching our own blogging capabilities for members of BiggerPockets. Today, we want to talk a little about the perks of blogging and of blogging on BiggerPockets.
For those of you who may not know what benefits blogging could bring your way, think of it as a means to:
1. Locate distressed homeowners
2. Find wholesale flip buyers
3. Find renters
4. Finding private lenders and hard money lenders
5. Market your properties
6. Promote your real estate business
7. Advertising homes for sale
8. Promote yourself, your real estate ideologies and thoughts
For those members and non-members with "outside" blogs/websites, a BiggerPockets blog can be of a benefit for you as well!
1. You get the opportunity to establish a presence inside a captive audience (this is especially good for product marketers, website developers, book authors, real estate experts or coaches, etc.) BiggerPockets has close to 23,000 members and well over 100,000 monthly visitors. We expect a large spike in both with the launch of our blogs. This captive audience is a great way to build an audience!
2. SEO link back potential to help your offsite web properties. All BiggerPockets blogs will be SEO optimized. The more quality content you provide, the more likely the search engines will rank your articles. That means PUBLICITY!
3. Networking - blogs are a social medium that allow people to engage in conversation. By combining blogging on BiggerPockets with the other social networking features of our site, you'll quickly build your colleagues and improve your business!
4. Visibility - BiggerPockets will be promoting bloggers who provide great quality content. Additionally, those who are engaged on our blog and other areas of the site will also be promoted. Quality activity on BiggerPockets equals free publicity!
5. We've got some GREAT features that you'll learn about at launch, but until then, just know that your blog will be customizable, optimized, widget-ready, and should be PROFITABLE for you as well!
Stay Tuned . . . BiggerPockets Blogs will be here any day now!
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Read The Latest Articles at BiggerPockets
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Learn from the BiggerPockets Blog
This week, we've found some great new contributors to add to the BiggerPockets blog. These folks are all well versed in their particular fields of real estate, and we're excited to have them. You'll meet most of them next week . . . if you read the blog this week, you probably met Brendan O'Brien, who will be sharing his landlording prowess with all of us. Thanks for getting involved, Brendan!
The Beauty of a Level Three Real Estate Business
by: Rob Powell
 You see, five years ago, I learned about a concept of a "level three business". I remember attending the very first Maui Mastermind, where a speaker, Curtis Oakes, said a statement that I would never forget. "My weekdays are my weekends, and my weekends are my holidays." Curtis had built a successful business that ran without him. At least, that I how I understood it. When I heard Curtis Oakes say that magical phrase . . . I knew what I needed to do. I needed to figure out how to make my businesses run without me.
So what is a "level three business"?
Well . . . it is a business that runs without you. But, not only does it run . . .but it grows without you.
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