For those of you that don’t know, Bobby Bonilla was a 6-time All Star baseball player who played for various teams including the Pirates, Mets, Braves and the 1997 World Series Marlins. At the height of his carreer, Bobby Bonilla landed a very sizeable 5-year contract with the New York Mets. However, towards the end [...]

Most people realize that marketing is the lynchpin of any business. Without marketing, you don’t have customers and therefore, don’t have much of a business. Real estate is no different.  I realize that some real estate investing strategies involve simply holding and leasing or listing them on the MLS and therefore may not require a detailed marketing [...]

I remember how daunting the HUD 1 settlement statement seemed when I was first getting started in real estate.  Trying to figure out what boxes to add together… it just didn’t seem as intuitive as you might think. I also remember blindly trusting lenders, attorneys and agents to make sure all of the numbers pertaining [...]

I have a good friend who just moved $100,000 into a self-directed IRA and we recently discussed how he could invest that money in real estate. I thought it was an interesting discussion and assume this is probably a fairly common scenario. Many investors that are tired of insanely low returns from conservative vehicles such [...]