May 2010

Housing

120-Day Opportunity for Distressed Asset Investors

by Ryan Hinricher | May 31, 2010

It’s hard to argue the real estate market hasn’t stabilized significantly from April 2009 (bottom of the first dip).  It is difficult, however, to agree on what direction the market is heading over the course of the next year.   But looking forward to the next 120 days, I think there’s a small window for some [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Las Vegas High-Rise – Good Deal or High Risk?

by Richard Warren | May 31, 2010
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At the height of the Las Vegas real estate bubble there were well over one hundred high-rise condominium projects in some stage of development.  Most of them never went beyond the planning stage.  When the bubble burst those developers that didn’t get past the drawing board seemed to be the lucky ones in that they [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Is Now the Time to Invest in Real Estate?

by Alex Cortez | May 30, 2010

Is now the time to invest on real estate or wait until the market hits the bottom? Well, if not now, when?

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Real Estate Marketing

PROOF: Why a Gravatar is good for Real Estate Marketing and Growing Your Business

by J. Lamar Ferren | May 30, 2010

In this post, I’m going to show you two reasons why having a Gravatar can be really good for marketing, and can play an interesting role in helping you grow your business through social media. I’m also going to walk you through the steps of setting up a free Gravatar account, should you decide to [...]

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Real Estate

The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: May 29, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | May 29, 2010
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1 ) Most real estate office meetings I have been to focus on production and numbers. We’re NOT #1! shows how that does not have to be so; meetings should be about the client, experience and satisfaction. Big should not be the goal, best should be. 2 ) So you want to see what can [...]

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Financing Real Estate

A Proven Way to Get Private Money for your Real Estate Deals

by Adam Davis | May 29, 2010

Ready for a shocker? “If you want to get private money, you must think raising it as a marketing process instead of a financing process.” I always get funny looks from people when I say this; like I told them a unicorn was grazing on their front lawn or something. Here’s what I mean… Basically, [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How to Get a Free, Smart, Deal Finding Bird Dog

by Jason Hanson | May 29, 2010
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You’re about to see one of the best ways to get a free bird dog to do a ton of legwork for you. And some of you are going to use this and make a lot of money and some of you won’t. Personally, I don’t use this method (I’ll tell you why in a [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Pain Vs. Pleasure: Evaluating Risk Tolerance in Real Estate

by John Fedro | May 28, 2010
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In a previous article we discussed some of the risks and rewards of real estate investing.  While writing that article I very quickly discovered that there is no “right or wrong” answer when it comes to a magic formula to deciding which deals are too risky for the rewards offered.  The ultimate voice that makes [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Getting Started in Real Estate Investing and the Million Dollar Question!

by Peter Giardini | May 27, 2010

I have heard from many “gurus” that the world of real estate investing has the highest “churn” rate of all investment opportunities.  By churn rate I mean the number of people entering and leaving real estate during a specified time-frame.  From a gurus’ perspective this means an almost endless supply of new, eager customers. While [...]

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Starting Out

3 Words of Advice for New Real Estate Investors

by Shae Bynes | May 27, 2010
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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with a work at home mother of 2 young children who is brand new to the real estate investing game.  Within 10 minutes of speaking with her, I learned that she had completed 4 wholesale deals over the past few months….and while that is impressive, what is [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Using Transactional Funding in Your Real Estate Wholesaling Business

by Stephani Davis | May 27, 2010
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In a perfect world, all real estate wholesale transactions would be completed by simply putting a property under contract, and then assigning that contract to an end buyer via an assignment agreement. While this is the quickest and easiest way to wholesale a piece of property, unfortunately, it is not always possible to accomplish. When [...]

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Rehabbing

Are You Sure Your Independent Contractors Really Are?

by J Scott | May 26, 2010

As a real estate investor — and especially if you’re a house flipper — you will no-doubt be hiring a lot of independent contractors to support your business. And I’m not just talking about the people who will be working on your houses; your real estate agent, your attorney, your CPA, and most of the [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Rent to Own: What Comes First, the Tenant or the Property?

by Julie Broad | May 26, 2010
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When my husband Dave and I decided to make real estate investing our full time job, we had been investing together for seven years and had built up a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio. We were in a strong financial position for the long term but our short term cash needs were not being met [...]

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Commentary

Enough Already! Good Folks Are Gettin’ Hurt Readin’ Your Pap

by Jeff Brown | May 26, 2010

Warning: This is a full on rant. It’s meant to inform, but contains much ire. If this post stings a bit — tough. Get over it. Also, it’s not aimed in any way either directly or indirectly at any BiggerPockets contributors, as I wouldn’t write here myself if I thought the norm here reflected what [...]

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Real Estate Technology

Have A Property To Sell? Use A Foursquare Special

by Justin McHood | May 25, 2010
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Quite a few of my geeky friends were on Foursquare way before I was. Heck, one of them even became the mayor of my house (at 4:00am) before I started paying attention to it. And now I am convinced that location based marketing services like Foursquare will be as mainstream in 2 years as Twitter [...]

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