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Shae Bynes

The SAFE Act: Most Confusing Legislation of 2010?

by Shae Bynes | September 2, 2010

Today marks my 40th post for the BiggerPockets blog and yesterday I realized that up to this point I am yet to write a commentary. That changes today. Pardon my rant, but I think the responses to this post will help a lot of people. Ok, seriously? I can’t think of anything that has been more [...]

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Real Estate Tools

Google Places: A Free Way to Promote Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes | August 26, 2010

Since I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like free advertising, I wanted to encourage all of my fellow real estate entrepreneurs and professionals to take advantage of Google Places. Google Places provides businesses with an online profile that can appear in Google search results for your type of business as well as Google Maps. For [...]

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Real Estate Tools

Six Essential Items Every Real Estate Investor Should Keep in the Car

by Shae Bynes | August 12, 2010

Maybe this seems like a silly topic to write about, but a couple missed opportunities over the past week made me realize that this is an important topic for new and experienced investor alike and can actually lead to more deals! As real estate investors, we always want to keep an eye out for deals [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Referrals: An Often Overlooked Way to Get Motivated Seller Leads

by Shae Bynes | August 5, 2010

On Tuesday I spent 3 hours in a mastermind session with ten business owners across a variety of industries and one of the topics we covered at length was marketing and various methods for generating leads for our businesses. One of the key takeaways I have from the session is that referrals are one of [...]

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Real Estate Technology

Simplify Your Craigslist Marketing With SearchTempest

by Shae Bynes | July 29, 2010

I’ve used Craigslist off and on for the past year to find buyers for properties, build a cash buyer’s list in my local area, and find motivated sellers to make offers to. The reason why I say “off and on” is because I could never find my groove and work Craigslist consistently. Mostly because I [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Tracking and Testing Your Real Estate Direct Mail Campaigns

by Shae Bynes | July 22, 2010

Earlier this week on the BiggerPockets blog, J. Lamar Ferren posed the question: “What are the most EFFECTIVE strategies for real estate marketing?” In the post, he responded that its not about effectiveness but rather about profitability and that the best way to determine what is profitable from what isn’t is to do tracking and [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Self-directed IRAs: A Great Way To Retire via Real Estate Investing

by Shae Bynes | July 15, 2010

As my husband and I began focusing on finding private money lenders to fund our rental property acquisitions and speaking with these potential lenders about the benefits of using IRA funds, it became evident that this was something we’d want to do personally as part of our own retirement planning. Not only does it allow [...]

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Real Estate News

Flood Insurance May be a Concern for Rehabbers and Landlords

by Shae Bynes | July 1, 2010

I don’t watch much news these days, but even if you watch no news at all, you’re probably well aware of the fact that there are several parts of the country that have experienced unusually bad flooding. Flooding can be caused by a number of factors, and for those who are in the hurricane states [...]

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Starting Out

5 Ways to Overcome Analysis Paralysis

by Shae Bynes | June 24, 2010

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. ~Brian Tracy As aspiring real estate investors and experienced ones, we’ve all likely had moments when we suffered from analysis paralysis. These are the moments where we research, plan, evaluate, research, plan, evaluate, in an endless [...]

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Starting Out

Why “Little Cash and No Credit” Should Be A Motivator

by Shae Bynes | June 17, 2010

Over the last month I’ve received a number of emails from new investors saying something like this: “People have been saying that you can get started in real estate with no cash and bad credit, but I just haven’t been able to make any progress and I’m wondering what I’m missing and if this is [...]

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Real Estate Tips

How to Turn Your Time into Money

by Shae Bynes | June 10, 2010

After my first week of full time entrepreneurship, one thing was certain. I need help. When I created a list of tasks that needed to be done to accomplish the week’s goals, it was apparent that there were several items that were important, but were time consuming. Sure, there were some things that I knocked [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

To Yellow Letter or Not to Yellow Letter? That is the Question

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. 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 you’ll receive on your [...]

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Starting Out

3 Words of Advice for New Real Estate Investors

by Shae Bynes | May 27, 2010

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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Real Estate Marketing

With Marketing, the Success is in the Follow Up!

by Shae Bynes | May 13, 2010

Regardless of your marketing methods –handwritten letters, postcards, brochures, email, or something else entirely — I want to remind you today that the success is found in the follow up! My latest deal is a case in point. My husband and I just got a great property under contract that we will be holding as [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Just Another Reason You Shouldn’t Wait to Start Your Real Estate Business

by Shae Bynes | May 6, 2010

When I was a senior in college I had a friend who I considered to be pretty brilliant. He was a few years older than most of my classmates and while he had limited business experience, it was definitely more than I had as a 21 year old at the time (which was pretty much [...]

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