Rosie Nieto

Archive of Rosie Nieto's Articles

Rosie has written 15 article(s) for the BiggerPockets Blog.

No Money for Real Estate Investors? What Are We Doing About it?

by Rosie Nieto | January 28, 2009

I have been spending a lot of time over the last couple of months in the trenches of “show me the money.” Right now, there are no loans for investors with 4 or more houses – period. I did find a bank that is still doing loans for investors with more than 10 homes… but what was the [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

Is Private Lending Right For You?

by Rosie Nieto | January 9, 2009

More and more pension plan, IRA, CD, Stock Market investors are opening their eyes to trust deed investing because it allows them to be in charge of their money. Being a private lender is a way for someone to move from being a passive investor, which allows your stock broker or pension plan manager decide [...]

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Commentary

The TV News and Negative People are No Bueno!

by Rosie Nieto | December 30, 2008

I accidentally watched the Nightly News tonight and felt hopeless and bummed out afterward. Well maybe just for a moment… then I remembered that I don’t let those sorry, sad, hopeless reports about the economy, unemployment, foreclosures, etc., effect me in a negative way! Quite the contrary! Now I had to ask myself, how am I able [...]

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Real Estate

Don’t get me wrong! You need to Invest in Real Estate Education!

by Rosie Nieto | December 25, 2008

I have spent the last week studying from a new teacher (for me). This time it’s for marketing, and several things have occurred to me; 1) Yes, I have indeed spent more money on my education this month and 2) it also occurred to me that with all my soap-box rants against “guru pitch fests”, I may be sending [...]

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Real Estate Investing

8 Steps to Starting Out In Real Estate Investing

by Rosie Nieto | December 16, 2008

My goodness if I had a nickel for every time I have been asked this question. It really makes me realize that with as much information that is available out there, that maybe there is just TMI (too much information). It gets to be overwhelming to the point that Newbies just end up not doing [...]

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Starting Out

Don’t be hypnotized by the “Guru of the Week”!

by Rosie Nieto | December 13, 2008

I know I write about this a lot – but I think it’s important to keep this message in the forefront for all the newer investors out there and even some of us not so newbies. The endless emails and direct mailing pieces I get that sell me on the next big, most important, I must not [...]

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Real Estate

My Investing New Years Resolution starts in December!

by Rosie Nieto | December 2, 2008

…and I mean it! For the past couple of years I have taken December as my play time. The word on the street is that December is generally the “slow time” for real estate, and I have happily jumped on that bandwagon and have sat around eating bon bon’s and drinking Martini’s all month! Ahhhh… good times. Well, while this still [...]

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Real Estate Investing

So You Want to Be a Real Estate Investor?

by Rosie Nieto | November 25, 2008

… but you don’t know where to start? This is every newbie investors position isn’t it? It makes me wonder… How is it possible with all the guru product and pitch fest seminars there are that people can still be confused as to where to start. Oh wait – I was confused when I first started too. [...]

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Financing Real Estate

How to Raise Private Money for Real Estate Deals: 3 Basic Steps

by Rosie Nieto | November 19, 2008

Well, pretty much everybody raised their hands at my club meeting last week when I asked this question. Boy you can’t swing a dead cat around without hitting an investor who is looking for private money these days huh? To be frank – I’m getting kind of bored hearing so many investors tell me this same problem [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Private Investing in Real Estate Trust Deeds, in Simple English.

by Rosie Nieto | November 11, 2008

Well, that question is what I have spent the last week and half – UNLEARNING. You see, I am a real estate investor and I, like many other investors, am always working on raising private money to use to close my deals fast (or, in this hellacious market – to close them at all!) That [...]

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Commentary

Real Estate Guru Pitch Fest Seminars… You Bring it Upon Yourselves.

by Rosie Nieto | October 29, 2008

Well it’s true. Why do I know this? Because I run my own real estate club where we bring investors quality education and networking at an affordable price without all the hype. What this means is that my meetings and events stay away from the “pitch fest” that one might experience at other events. Sounds like a great plan right? BUT – [...]

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Learn Real Estate

Being a Real Estate Investor vs. Being a Real Estate Investing Business

by Rosie Nieto | October 22, 2008

One of the biggest things I am learning right now is to change my mindset from being “just a” real estate investor (who does a deal at a time) to being a Full-time Real Estate Investing Business and Company. What does this mean? Well, for so many of us, we seem to be in the mindset of ”I’m a real estate investor” [...]

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Commentary

Is Making 100K in One Day Selling Real Estate Guru Product Bad for Business?

by Rosie Nieto | October 14, 2008

That depends. Who is the speaker? What is the product? Was it done in a pitch-fest? I tell you what, as of now; there are just a small handful of real estate investor speakers that I feel good about promoting and they deserve to make good money selling their education. Then, there those that I [...]

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Commentary

Real Estate Gurus Promoting Other Guru Courses and Events – a Scam?

by Rosie Nieto | October 7, 2008

I have to say that this is one of my pet peeves. What the heck is up with real estate gurus hawking tele-seminars, webinars, bootcamps, courses and seminars of other gurus? I mean really – don’t they make enough money selling us their own stuff? It seems lately that I am getting more and more [...]

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Commentary

Paulson didn’t see this Meltdown Coming? Huh?

by Rosie Nieto | September 30, 2008

Scott Pelley interviewed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on 60 Minutes Sunday night and I thought I was going to blow a gasket. Pelley reminded Mr. Paulson of a quote he said way back in April 2007: “I don’t see sub-prime mortgage market troubles imposing a serious problem. I think it’s going to be largely contained.” [...]

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