June 2010

Home Buyer Credit Extension Does Its Job, but what’s next?

by Ryan Hinricher | June 7, 2010

Crunching the recent Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) numbers revealed the home buyer credit extension worked. The extension proved not to have diminishing returns as the index nearly matched the recent high set in October, 2009 (110.9 vs. 112.4). This is short term good news for the economy as the extensions have helped the real [...]

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Housing

Is Homeownership Still the American Dream?

by Richard Warren | June 7, 2010

As investors most of us tend to get caught up in the numbers. Is it a good deal? Can I rehab it for a profit? Is the rent sufficient enough to justify the price? Is there potential for appreciation? A savvy investor takes the emotion out of a deal. However for the average American making [...]

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Real Estate Technology

4 Essential Tech Tools For Real Estate Professionals.

by Alex Cortez | June 6, 2010

Technology tools for real estate professionals, varying from CRM’s, to smart marketing tools, to document management.

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Real Estate News

The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: June 5, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | June 5, 2010

1 ) If you are in real estate you have probably done some unique things to try to get some business. I bet you have not seen many more creative ways than this: Desperate or Innovative? Realtor Selling on a Street Corner. If it doesn’t work out he at least will have street begging to fall [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Why You Should Do Almost ZERO Internet Marketing…

by Jason Hanson | June 5, 2010

There is a much more profitable marketing method than using the Internet. And I’m going to tell you exactly what it is and how to use it. You see, I love marketing. It truly is one of my passions and I’m thankful for that, since it’s the most important part of my real estate business. [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Mobile Home Investing: The 2 Sides of Bird-dogging

by John Fedro | June 4, 2010

In a previous article, 5 Ways to Make Money Investing in Mobile Homes, I spoke of five unique ways for anyone with ambition to make money with mobile homes. Over the next few weeks, we will cover each topic in depth. The first and perhaps easiest method to making money with manufactured homes, or any real [...]

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Real Estate

Greening your Mayor (for fun and profit)

by Jim Simcoe | June 4, 2010

What is the one thing all elected officials absolutely want regardless of their political views? Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, etc all want the same thing. Cash? Fame? Help their Community? Maybe, but the overriding thing that elected officials want is to get re-elected. Politicians at almost every level strive for re-election. That’s why we have [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 2 – Approaches to Finding Profitable Deals

by Peter Giardini | June 3, 2010

In Part 1 of this series I suggested that there is a Million Dollar question every beginning real estate investor wants answered before they jump in. That Million Dollar question is this… As a new real estate investor what strategy should I focus on to get started? I am going to focus on Marketing or the [...]

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Real Estate

How to Access MLS Listed Properties Without Having a Real Estate License

by Stephani Davis | June 3, 2010

About three years ago I decided that I wanted to start pursuing bank owned properties that were listed on the MLS. My first thought was to find a buyer’s agent to get listings and submit offers for me, but after talking to a handful of agents who had no interest in submitting multiple low offers, I [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

To Yellow Letter or Not to Yellow Letter? A Marketing Primer

by Shae Bynes | June 3, 2010

If you’ve been involved in real estate investing for any reasonable amount of time, you probably have heard about the yellow letter marketing technique. The Yellow Letter Explained Here’s a standard yellow letter. It’s been used for years and is a highly regarded marketing technique by many because of the high open and response rates [...]

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Real Estate

SUPER SIZED SUCCESS: Donald Trump Strategies for The Every Day Real Estate Investor

by Julie Broad | June 2, 2010

His hair is ridiculous. And he should have read Dale Carnegie’s book on How to Win Friends and Influence People before he got into that big word war with Rosie O’Donnell. And he has definitely encountered some serious financial challenges on more than one occasion with more than one of the projects he is involved [...]

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Flipping Houses

Why Many Wildly Successful Flippers and Wholesalers Will Face Bleak Retirements

by Jeff Brown | June 1, 2010

It’s always been true, but since the correction the calls I get from those specializing in ‘quick turn’ projects, whether flipping or wholesaling, have more than doubled. The calls are predictable, usually coming within a few days after publishing a post about what their retirement will look like, given their long term M.O. — and [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The Secrets of Dominating Your Area

by Jason Hanson | June 1, 2010

It’s cliche time. “If you want to get rich, pick a niche.” Yes, this is said all of the time, but few real estate investors truly know how to niche down their marketing. First of all, the more specific your marketing, the better your results will be. For example, if I send you a letter [...]

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