January 2010
Economy by Ryan Hinricher | January 17, 2010I was fortunate enough to attend the Inman Connect real estate conference over the last week in New York. Although I attended in San Francisco last summer, this year was different for particularly one reason. The mood was optimistic. The last 12 months has been hard on many of us in the real estate business [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | January 17, 2010Three weeks ago I wrote about one of my most profitable direct mail pieces ever. It’s the endorsed mailing, where you mail a letter and include a glowing testimonial from a previous seller whom you helped–this will get your phone ringing off the hook. But now I want to tell you another way to build [...]
Commentary by J. Lamar Ferren | January 16, 2010 
Are YOU Caught In The Web Of Real Estate Information? Just imagine how disappointed you’d be after trying to learn everything there is to know about a certain real estate investing strategy, studying day in and day out, only to have your competition take down deals left and right while you watch. If this happens [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | January 16, 2010 
Here’s a fun deal I put together for a mobile home attached to land. I purchased the mobile home (a beautiful, free and clear, 1991 single wide with screened porch and carport sitting on ¼ acre) for only $695.00. I was contacted by a woman (let’s call her Clair) that wanted $35,000 for her mobile [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Tools by Tom Koziol | January 15, 2010 
Economic stress seems to be an apt description of today’s environment. Unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies seem to have hit every nook and cranny in these United States. Put another way, I don’t care where you live, your jurisdiction has its share of these problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had instant access to a [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Wholesaling by Stephani Davis | January 14, 2010 
When I first started learning about making money with real estate, I often found myself overwhelmed. There were so many different strategies available (short sales, rehabbing, buy and hold, subject to, wholesaling, etc), that it was hard to choose just one. One month I would be reading everything I could get my hands on about [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Christian Russell | January 14, 2010 
What do you do? It’s one of the most common questions we get in social networking. In person, online…it’s all the same. When people meet you and like you, they want to know what you do. Do you have a good answer? It all Begins at the Beginning Think of how crucially important the answer [...]
Read the full article → Starting Out by Shae Bynes | January 14, 2010 
When I first started real estate investing, the only seller I was dealing with was the bank. During the middle of last year, I started a direct mail campaign to absentee owners and I was a nervous wreck whenever I had to talk to a seller. What if I said something stupid? Would the seller [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Ben Roberts | January 13, 2010I read an article on RISmedia (that was a total product plug) about Internet Prospecting that’s 16 times more effective… It got me thinking about forced site registration vs. free home searches and the debate that inevitably ensues. That article pointed out some amazingly ridiculous facts. 65% of real estate agents have websites 90% of [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | January 13, 2010 
Despite the fact that banks are not lending like they used to on construction projects and commercial real estate there still exist many alternative financing options for the commercial real estate investor who is willing to do some leg work and research. The following are a list of alternative funding sources that are being used [...]
Read the full article → Foreclosures by Charles Feldman | January 13, 2010 
If you are like the small, but growing army of folks who have dumped their homes back on the banks in a short sale—and are feeling pretty good that you managed to get the bank to forgive all that debt you owed—stand-by! The IRS is about to dump an even bigger one on YOU! Ever [...]
Read the full article → Mortgages & Lending by Peter Giardini | January 12, 2010 
I was speaking with one of my coaching clients this morning whose has purchased some killer deals using his Home Equity Line of Credit and private lender funds. This client now needs to recapitalize to get the cash out of these properties so that he can continue his buying spree. During the course of the [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Florence Foote | January 12, 2010 
Californians have gotten used to being blamed for many ills. Some years ago, the good people of our neighbor state to the north were said to have erected billboards declaring “Don’t Californicate Oregon.” Sadly, many Californians understood exactly what they were talking about, and far from being insulted, were none too crazy that our own [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Jeff Brown | January 12, 2010 
How often have you heard or read somebody declare that when you retire, your tax rate will go down? The third rail, at least when I’ve written about it, is the 401k — which might be the best designed transfer of private wealth to government coffers ever. One might gently ask the question, “How’s that been [...]
Read the full article → Economy by Ryan Hinricher | January 11, 2010On the 5th of January, the National Association of Realtors released its latest Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), showing a 16% decline over October. Almost immediately the media seized these numbers and outlets like MSNBC reported “Housing Industry May Be Headed for Double Dip”. Of course any decline anywhere in the economy right now is [...]
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by J. Lamar Ferren | January 16, 2010Are YOU Caught In The Web Of Real Estate Information? Just imagine how disappointed you’d be after trying to learn everything there is to know about a certain real estate investing strategy, studying day in and day out, only to have your competition take down deals left and right while you watch. If this happens [...]