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Archive of Jeff Brown

Licensed since 1969, broker/owner since 1977. Extensively trained and experienced in tax deferred exchanges, and long term retirement planning.

Jeff has written 173 articles for The BiggerPockets Blog.

Flipping Houses & Rehabbing

A Simple Strategy Made Real

by Jeff Brown January 30, 2013

You’ve got $150,000 plus fix-up cash, and you’re rarin’ to go. You’re goal is to acquire a home to fix up, and without using debt. Problem is, you’re in a $200,000+ market. What to do? Before we begin, the seller you’ll need to find will have to want income, and not have any debt on [...]

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Retirement

Fastest Growing Generation: The OopsGeneration?

by Jeff Brown January 22, 2013

I’d never tell anyone that a couple grand a month plus an SS check is to be celebrated. Yet my experience has taught me, in my opinion, that most current American retirees would run over Grandma for that much retirement income. No more is the old joke about “Hi, welcome to Wal.Mart” funny. Far too many [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Most Things Work — Until The Day They Don’t

by Jeff Brown January 15, 2013

One of my favorite baseball memories is of my son developing one of the stealthiest pickoff moves to second base you’ll ever witness. He picked off runners who knew about it. Instead of relying on lightning quickness, this move mirrored the strategy of the left-hander’s move to first. The baserunner simply wasn’t seein’ what his [...]

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Starting Out

Another Mentor Gone — What He Taught Me

by Jeff Brown January 8, 2013

Whatever you do for a living, if you’ve done it long enough, and have diligently pursued excellence, you no doubt know an expert in your industry when you see one. Heck, we’ve all seen folks who’ve spent thousands upon thousands of hours at a hobby for which they harbor a white hot passion. They’ve become [...]

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Real Estate

Gaining REAL Expertise

by Jeff Brown December 25, 2012

Many of us have or had an avocation, maybe a few, in which over time we became pretty dang proficient. Ah, that pesky concept — over time. Gaining truly high level expertise in anything we value, not only demands time, it demands time well spent. A lot of it — doin’ the same things over [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Some Serious Questions For Serious Long Term Real Estate Investors

by Jeff Brown December 18, 2012

Whether it’s with callers, those emailing me, or even at a speaking engagement, it never ceases to amaze me what some seem to believe about long term real estate investing. But, somebody said it, they sound as if they’ve been there and done that, so they believe it. Don’t get me wrong, some of what [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Buyin’ Shoes At Nordstrom VS Creating A Superb Retirement Through Real Estate

by Jeff Brown December 11, 2012

The semi-formal company Christmas party is next week, and your better half — come on, you know you married above your station like the rest of us — tells you to get new black dress shoes. She sets the bar, and sends you on your way, suggesting Nordstrom’s shoe department will probably lessen the pain [...]

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Retirement

Lookin’ To Retire At Least Partly Through Real Estate Investing? Let’s Talk About What’s Most Important

by Jeff Brown December 4, 2012

When talkin’ to those who’re seriously interested in what it takes to retire well through real estate and other related (maybe some unrelated) vehicles, I’m most often asked the following question. What’s the most important thing(s) we should know? I’ve learned there are a buncha answers to that question — and those answers tend to [...]

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Landlord Tenant

What I Learned As A Professional Property Management Company Owner

by Jeff Brown November 27, 2012

I tell this short story to new clients when they inevitably ask me about property management. I came into the office one day only to find Dad waitin’ for me with a cuppa coffee. Crap on a cracker, this can’t be good. Know how sometimes your lizard brain screams a warning at ya? I heard [...]

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Real Estate Notes

Too Little Time & Not Enough Capital: Turnin’ Your Property Into A Bank

by Jeff Brown November 20, 2012

For many, here’s how the story goes. They have one small investment property, maybe two. Total value is around $250,000 or so. They own ‘em free ‘n clear. They’re racin’ to finish payin’ off their home mortgage so that when retirement hits, maybe in about 10 years, they’ll not have that to pay every month. [...]

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Real Estate News & Commentary

Joe Flipper: Part 2 Of His Purposeful Plan — Tax Free Income

by Jeff Brown November 13, 2012

If you’ll recall in our last episode, Joe Flipper was about 54 years old and tired of the flippin’ grind — pun intended. If you need to get caught up, or review the initial post, here it is. We went back in time, wondering what he might’ve done differently if he’d known what was possible. [...]

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Retirement

Fact: Most Real Estate Investors Aren’t Aware Of 30-70% Of Their ‘Menu’ Options

by Jeff Brown November 7, 2012

Of all the Purposeful Plans I’ve engineered and executed, a significant chunk were with folks who’d come to me with a pretty nice portfolio. They’d done well, many enviably so. Or did they? Remember when we were kids and argued about who made the best ‘burger? When you added in homemade, the debates would get [...]

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Flipping Houses & Rehabbing

Attention Flippers Everywhere: You’re In FAR Better Shape Than Most Long Term Investors

by Jeff Brown November 1, 2012

Those who’re successful flippers, regardless of how many you’re able to turn each year, you may be missin’ the boat. Here’s what I mean. On one hand, if all you do in real estate is flip, the light at the end of your tunnel — as it relates to retirement — is a freight train [...]

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Retirement

Long Term Real Estate Investment Success Doesn’t Come From A Recipe

by Jeff Brown October 23, 2012

When you read something here or elsewhere that you’ve not known of before, in what way do you process it? Do you review how the new info might’ve helped you years ago? Or maybe it would’ve easily helped you avoid a mistake you made years ago — one that put you on a financial treadmill [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Managing Residential Income Property: One Simple Bit Of Timing Can Make A World Of Difference

by Jeff Brown October 16, 2012

Having been born and raised in SoCal, doing business there for over three decades, many of the lessons learned in nearly a decade workin’ in other states has been instructive — an understatement if ever there was one. I’ll bet if you’re invested in a midwestern state, the thought of a last quarter vacancy freezes [...]

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