November 2009

How To Gain Lots of Targeted Traffic, Authority, Exposure and High Search Engine Rankings with 300 words

by Peter Kolat | November 30, 2009

One of the most powerful and yet overlooked internet marketing strategies that real estate investors and agents can use in their real estate business is article marketing. Article marketing is extremely powerful and can give you the following advantages: Lots of targeted traffic back to your website Authority and expertise in your niche Powerful one [...]

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Foreclosures

Investors: How to show you truly care in 2010; Save a Foreclosure!

by Winston Westbrook | November 30, 2009

In today’s market, more and more people are losing their homes; this is plain fact. The second one of your fellow Americans start to fall behind in their mortgage payments they begin to suffer greatly. They start to anguish mentally the second they know they cannot make the mortgage payment. They go through a plethora [...]

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Real Estate Law

Long Island Judge Wipes Out Homeowner Debt. Victory for Consumers? Or Is It?

by Richard Warren | November 30, 2009

Last week a judge on Long Island wiped out a homeowner’s debt to Indymac Bank. (article) Many consumers are absolutely giddy over winning one against the “greedy” banks. What consumer wouldn’t want to have their own mortgage wiped out? It’s akin to finding a bag of money that fell off of an armored truck. While [...]

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Rehabbing

12 Improvements That Didn’t Pay: Learn From These Rehab Mistakes

by Justin Pierce | November 29, 2009

Two weeks ago I wrote a warning about over-improving and last week I told you about a house that I over-improved. I went long last week and I didn’t get to share any numbers with you. This particular flip was unique because there was another rehab home just around the corner from mine. It was [...]

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Real Estate Investing

5 Ways Olive Garden Can Enhance Your Real Estate Business

by J. Lamar Ferren | November 28, 2009

One of my favorite restaurants to go would have to be Olive Garden. I’m always satisfied when I go to Olive Garden, no matter what city I’m in. From the staff to the food, I’d give them 5 Stars, but this post isn’t about my love for Olive Garden. I believe that Olive Garden and [...]

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Real Estate Technology

Why Blogging for Real Estate is Worth the Time

by Christian Russell | November 27, 2009

In real estate, branding and name recognition is the name of the game. Don’t you agree? Consider this: They need to have heard of you before they will call to list with you. They need to have heard of you before they will call to buy a home with you. They need to have heard [...]

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Commentary

Two Acronyms You Don’t Know

by Tom Koziol | November 27, 2009

I would bet if we were in a conversation and I mentioned ASFA and CFPA you would give me a strange look. Yet, these two acronyms impact your daily real estate ventures and impact them like a hurricane impacts a coast line. ASFA stands for the American Financial Services Association, a trade group of credit [...]

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Real Estate Wholesaling

10 Questions to Ask Investors Before Adding Them to Your Wholesale Buyers List

by Stephani Davis | November 26, 2009

If you’re a wholesaler, having a rock solid buyers list can be a tremendous help once you get a property under contract. Like I mentioned in my last post- one of the easiest ways to alienate the investors on your list is by repeatedly sending them deals that do not fit their criteria. To [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

One Upscale Marketing Idea That Could Launch Your Career in the Luxury Home Market

by Ben Roberts | November 26, 2009

Open houses are a dime a dozen. Traditional real estate agents continue to churn out mostly useless, droll events that attract few Realtors and fewer buyers. Here’s an out of the box idea that could launch you into toughest market segment around… Luxury Homes. Interested? Read on… An Open House that actually attracts people… What [...]

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Starting Out

5 Ways To Create More Time To Grow Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes | November 26, 2009

It’s probably safe to assume that the majority of people who have relatively new real estate investing businesses are likely juggling a full time or part time job while growing their business. If you take the time needed to hustle to grow a business and then add in family and community obligations you have yourself [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

The Marketing Technique to Use If You’re Broke

by Jason Hanson | November 25, 2009

“I’m broke” he told me. He said he maybe had $200 dollars and wanted to get a deal within a week. Now getting a deal in a week is not easy at all. Especially if you’re starting cold and don’t have a solid pipeline of leads flowing in every day. So the first thing I [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Have the Credit Markets Dried Up Completely? That Depends Upon Where You Are Looking!

by Peter Giardini | November 25, 2009

Back in October of this year a BiggerPockets regular, Rich Weese, posted a web site that provided a graded scale of the overall health of every bank in the nation. While his post did not get a lot of response, the Bank Tracker Web site must be visited by everyone who is currently or hopes [...]

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Cool Stuff

This Real Estate Story REALLY Sucks; Now YOU Can Buy The Twilight Vampire’s Home!

by Charles Feldman | November 25, 2009

At a time when banks have been sucking blood dry from homeowners, forcing countless of them into foreclosure, isn’t it nice to know that you can turn the tables and buy a chunk of real estate that banks will not mess with. If they know what’s good for them, anyway. For a paltry $3.3 million [...]

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Starting Out

Why All Real Estate Investors Need a Good Mentor

by Ryan Moeller | November 24, 2009

Whether you’re just beginning or if you have plenty of experience as a real estate investor, a good mentor can be your key to success. No matter what your challenge is or goals are, here are some tips to help you choose the right mentor (and what they can do for your business). If you [...]

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Commentary

Inflation Is The Real Estate Investor’s Best Friend.

by Florence Foote | November 24, 2009

Actually, if you are investing in stocks and bonds, mutual funds, or just about anything else (except, perhaps, commodities), inflation can be a real killer. The title of this article was adapted from a recent article in Forbes entitled “U.S. Dollar Has A Long Way To Fall“, which posed the question: “[w]hy does the Fed [...]

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